haha, guys, Studio XPS got "downgraded" and is grouped together with Studio in Dell UK and US website

XPS and Alienware are in the same group now...

This post has been edited by astria: Jun 2 2009, 09:47 PM

Studio XPS 13 lor...

Studio XPS and XPS are so different lor...

well... Nvidia chipset is notorious for being hotter than Intel... that's a fact... Intel 4 series chipset are also 65nm...

and throw in GeForce 9500M GE and run SLI... u've a water boiler...

u mean the GPU???

imho if packed inside a 13" chasis, it'll still be hot...

to be honest, XPS has been overlapped by Studio XPS and Alienware long ago...

XPS M1330 -> Studio XPS 13
XPS M1530 -> Studio XPS 16
XPS M1730 -> Alienware

and i believe in the last 2 or so years, XPS M1730 hurts the sales of Alienware...

well, Asus has some great design too, like the N50 and N51 series...

but to be honest, i did consider SXPS16 before also...

well,besides SXPS and HDX, there are loads of laptop with good spec and nice design also...

Asus N50/N51 series (GeForce GT 130M), Lamborghini VX5 (GeForce GT 130M with C2Q Q9000), Alienware (dun need to say rit... ), HP Pavilion dv6 (Radeon HD 4650)

and no, 9600M GT is not an uber card, and HD 3670 with GDDR3 can catch up to it (GDDR3 version only) with less heat also... both scores abt 5k+ in 3D Mark 06

problem with Nvidia, is that they dun have a good enuf mainstream card in the market... ATi's supposedly value card HD4570 GDDR3 can catchup with GeForce 9600M GT/9650M GT/GT 120M with DDR2... and it's mainstream HD4650 is on par with GeForce 9700M GTS/ GTS 150M...

and believe it or not, the 9600M GT on HDX 16 scores only 4k+ in 3D Mark 06 as it's only using DDR2... it's consider low performance for the price u pay...

GT 130M with DDR2 on HP HDX 16, scores roughly the same as 9600M GT with GDDR3 on BenQ S42...

GT 130M has higher core and shader clock, but is pulled by the slower RAM...

so in another word, HD3670 is still competitive with those 2 GPU...

but looking at this, it's hard to tell if Dell would give SXPS16 a refresh, as many other brands use GT 130M with DDR2 as well...

i thought it's HD4650???

anyway, by then HD4000 family is consider old already... we probably will be looking at HD5000 in Nov/Dec...

Alienware is NOT up to date...

till now they still using Santa Rosa Refresh...

i doubt so...

i think by then a new family will be out...

back to XPS maybe???

no way...

HD4670 has 320SP while HD3670 only 120SP...

u dun ask they dun give... then they can save it for their next customer... u dun get gift, they save money...

so y not???

www.amd.com

look for Win7 driver... they work under Vista...

if u re more adventurous, u can try DNA's modded driver...

here:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

P = 25W TDP, T = 35W TDP...

that's it... it's not an indication of performance...

imo it's not really worth it...

1920x1080 on 16" makes the font size really damn small if u ask me...

and besides, Full HD monitor is really dirt cheap nowadays...

yup, they are the same thing...

to be exact, the RAM speed is 1066.6666666666666666.... MHz

US$100 for the upgrade in Dell US...