Dell XPS M1710 Review Quotes

In april, Dell introduced gaming laptop Dell XPS M1710 featuring 17-inch widescreen display, Intel Core Duo processors, NVIDIA 512 MB GeForce Go 7900 GTX graphics card and up to 4 GB of memory. Here are some hand-picked Dell XPS M1710 review quotes with links to full stories.

Dell XPS M1710 review by PC Magazine
The real thrill of an XPS notebook is its performance, and the M1710 doesn’t disappoint. It’s the first gaming notebook to arrive in PC Magazine Labs that’s built with nVidia’s GeForce Go 7900 GTX, by far the most powerful mobile graphics chipset available. Benefiting from this screaming 3D subsystem, my M1710M test system beat the XPS M170 by 12 percent on 3DMark 2005 and by 23 percent on our Doom 3 benchmark tests. Thanks to a muscular Intel Core Duo processor (T2600), 2GB of RAM, and a 7,200-rpm hard drive, the laptop soundly trounced all of its close competitors on our SYSmark 2004 SE tests. It was 66 percent faster than the M170 on Internet Content Creation and 59 percent faster on Office Productivity.

Dell XPS M1710 Review
The conclusion is quite simple for the M1710: If this were the state fair and the contest were for best performance notebook, then the blue ribbon would go to the XPS M1710. The coolest thing being, you could even adjust the lights on the M1710 to blue to match that ribbon!

TechEBlog » Dell XPS M1710 Video Review
Brian Pitstick, XPS Product Manager, reviews the feature-set of the Dell XPS M1710 gaming notebook.

AnandTech: Dell XPS M1710 - GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512 Mobile Gaming, Part 1
As far as portable gaming goes, the XPS M1710 is currently one of the best options available — certainly the best I’ve ever used. SLI gaming laptops are on the horizon, but as our benchmarks show there are quite a few titles that don’t really need multiple graphics cards to be perfectly playable. In fact, personally I think multiple GPUs in desktops is already getting a bit carried away, and while I don’t generally want a thin and light notebook, anything larger than the XPS M1710 starts to get into the “luggable” category as opposed to being a truly mobile computer. A single fast graphics chip at present seems the best way to balance performance against heat and power requirements.

Dell XPS M1710 Reviews. Laptops Reviews by CNET.
The good: Best-in-class gaming performance; top-shelf processor and graphics engine; attractive illuminated case; solid multimedia features; full assortment of ports and connections.

The bad: Very expensive; display not remarkably bright.

The bottom line: If you’re a hard-core gamer looking to play the newest games at the highest settings, this is the best system that (a lot of) money can buy.