Any Idea when XPS 1530 will get Updated?

I currently have an Inspiron 1420 with Nvidia 8400 & T7500. I'm quite happy with it but have lately been eying the 1530 because of the LED screen and Nvidia 8600. I've been playing HL2 at 1440x900 with max settings execept AA and getting great frame rates on the Nvidia 8400. How much of a difference will the 8600 make in recent games. Also i don't want to buy the xps 1530 and then in 2-3 months Dell goes ahead and releases the successor.

So does any one have any idea or heard any rumors of the XPS 1530's successor. I've been hearing horror stories of the WXGA+ (1440x900) screen, any idea if the LED screen also has the same problems.

So should i stick with my 1420 and wait for the 1530's next iteration with hopefully a better video card and keyboard back lighting or should i plunk down the money and get the 1530?

 

Id just wait, seeing as how the 1420 is meeting you needs.

 

november. most likely a 16.4in edition

 

yea its not gonna be an xps tho its gonna be the studio xps with the cheaper materials and build most likely, and maybe not quite as high graphics options since they are leaving gaming to alienware now so who knows

 

Exactly why i bought mine now too, i was holding out for a refresh purely for better battery power with Centrino 2 and maybe a small graphic upgrade but after reading the whole studio xps leaked info i suspect it may get cut down graphically so not to upset their alienware market position.

I also didnt really like the pics of the new studio xps, whatever you say about the curent xps range they look beautiful and perform excellently and everyone i meet asks what my new laptop is.

Im a new and very happy xps 1530 gamer

Vanna

 

Nice job you bought a last generation nvidia card for gaming. If you cared about gaming you would have gotten at least a 9 series card.

 

if i cared about gaming lol an enthusiast, but hunny it doesnt come in an xps m1530 now does it.

I have a Gigabyte 8500gts in my quad desktop and the m1530 still runs everything i play perfectly fine.

 

go troll somewhere else.

 

I guess i'm out of the loop. What is the new studio XPS? Are you referring to the current studio 15 / 17 or am i missing something?

 

You made it sound like you were a gaming enthusiast when you said you were a new happy xps gamer. I always believe people should buy things that are for them so if you do casual gaming or it runs everything you play fine and you don't plan on playing new games great. It feels like people believe that by buying the XPS brand they will be able to play every game.

I dunno why you mentioned your desktop with a 8500 GTS which is a terrible 50 dollar graphics card and then matching it with a quadcore is a huge mismatch. You coulda gotten a much faster GPU and slower CPU (assuming this is for gaming of course) and gotten better performance.

Anyway I don't mean to be trolling but lets get one thing at least clear. The XPS is OLD. It may play games well now but why should this person who needs a new laptop get something that is old? The new Studio XPS is right around the corner, it seems like he would like a 15 inch so there are at least 10 options in the 15 inch range that would destroy the XPS 1530 in performance. Don't get stuck just buying dell XPS if you want to game as there are tons of great PCs that aren't labeled as gaming that can kill the current XPS.

 

well maybe hes not a hardcore gamer and has a life outside his laptop. i liek games but dam, my 8600 has served me perfectly fine with CoD4 and supreme commander n such. and even if he were to buy a 9 series card, in a few years itll be "old" in your terms.

 

I never said you can't have a life outside your laptop or that you have to be a hardcore gamer. I got the impression he had just bought an XPS and was thinking it was a top of the line gaming system or something. I had the 7600 GT ( died on me) in my desktop and I don't really play any PC games at all. Of course every card would be old in a few years time but I just thought he had JUST bought an XPS and if you are a serious gamer you don't wanna buy stuff just as it is being phased out.

 

There are so many mistakes here....so many.

1.-With m1530 you CAN play the actual games....no? name a few you CANT play on it...ill prove you wrong. Sure, you wont play them at super ultra high 9000x2000 res 20kAA and all that, but you definetly can play recent games on m1530 at least at 25FPS, at least.

2.-m1530 has its flaws, sadly for your argument, gaming performance is not one of them.

3.-PC gaming is always on the move, whats new today, will be old tomorrow, it doesnt mean its worthless, or outdated.

----Living fact is that...series 9 is not automatically better than series 8, ITS NOT(at least for gaming, which is what you said), so SAYING THAT IF SOMEONES A GAMER THEY SHOULD CONSIDER A 9 SERIES product IS WRONG. Go to notebookcheck, check the specs of series 8 and 9s, check benchmarks, game performance, then come back and please edit your post

4.-No matter what, you can always "get something better", personally i think people just have to get what they need, i play WoW, crysis, warcraft 3 (lol), and im always triyng new games, and so far, ive never said "****, i just cant play that game", and yes, im picky, im not playing games at 15 FPS, but im not buying alien technology just to have it sitting there and tell my friends it has a glowing keyboard .

Just my 2 cents, if someone feels offended, thats not my intention, never was.

 

Oh, and btw, i would really like to know one of those awesome "not labeled for gaming" laptops that can destroy xps in game performance (not specs), seriously i really want to.

 

kudos man kudos. like the person before mentioned, i too got this xps cause i like the design and i had owned a studio 15 but this is much better and everyone ive asked plays games fine. I coulda got a new HP DV5t for probably a similar price with a centrino 2 processor and a 9600 but i decided to go with the xps cause ive owned an hp laptop before and i just wasnt a fan of the style, so far im loving this xps. Its all preference, and yea these really arent marked as gaming laptops, really only the 1720 or whichever the newest xps 17inch is is aimed towards gaming, but amongst the multimedia laptops this plays games very well.

 

Actually im a "she"

no i never made out i was an enthusiast gamer i have no idea where you grabbed that thread from, i said im a happy xps gamer and i am, for me gamer doesnt mean im destined to always have to play the latest and greatest games...personally i dont give a hoot for most of the latest for purely gaming reasons. Being a girl i dont feel the need to play intensive FPS as much as my male counterparts so therefore i dont need as much power as others probably would.

I mentioned my gts 8500 card because when i bought that card it was the best availiable at the time as you know the market moves so fast that todays card is really already yesterdays and i can assure you when it was released it wasnt a $50 card and all the overclcking sites were singing its praises....theres nothing wrong with my card it plays all my games max settings what else can you ask lol.

I was aware the xps is dated your see me asking about a refresh in some older threads and i was fully aware of its limitations having read many thread, vids on youtube ect but i didnt really need a monster gaming rig to fit my fendi bag but something nice, light and still very capiable of doing what the majority of us want really.

There will always be something better thats technology for you but im very happy with my xps.

I didnt answer in this thread to get into an arguement of how crappy the xps might be or how im not a gamer for whatever reason. As face Jones and Channelz said the xps is still a nice machine that plays and performs very well and that was just my point of view too.

Vanna

 

no the studio xps is the new laptops being released supposedly in november. They are gonna have the new centrino 2 chipset and its the first in the line of the new laptops where the xps is a subcategory of the inspirons and studios.

 

So you mean to say Dell might get rid of the current stand alone XPS line and introduce it as a subset of the Studio line. Found the Studio XPS 13 & Studio XPS 16 info on a thread here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=291340

I tend to agree that if Dell does make the XPS 1530 a studio XPS, it will most probably have a weaker graphics card. I guess i'll have to pick up an XPS 1530 after all. Any info on how good / bad the LED screens are on the 1530?

 

yes thats exactly what i am saying and im pretty sure thats what they are doing. they wanna make alienware the only high end and gaming laptops since they own it. The plan is to do away with the current stand alone xps line. I have an LED screen on my 1530 and it looks great and it does seem to save some battery life. other people with this laptop without the screen have been complaining about only getting up to 2.5 hours battery life on full power save but i can get up to 4, idk how much of that is the screen but i like it.

 

Thanks for confirming and sharing your opinion about the LED screen. Do you have the 6 cell battery or the 9 cell? Approx 4 hours on a single charge is pretty good. Also how is the light leakage on the LED screen? Lastly if you have a scale could you please weigh your 1530 without the adapter and let me know how much it weights (with 6 cell and 9 cell if you have both

Thanks for all your help & sharing your opinions !

 

Hey, I have both the 6 cell and 9 cell...with the 9 cell on my 1530 I get up to 4.5 hours (on balanced), on the 6 cell about 3 to 3.5 hours (on balanced)

So pretty good on both I would say!!! It's weight approx. 5.9 lb w/6 cell, and about 6.30 lb w/9 cell batt.

Hope that helps!!!

Cin

 

Yeh that is pretty good. What kind of screen (LED or Regular and what resolution) do you have Cin? Thanks

 

i only have a 6 cell and yes this is on a full charge with the 6 cell, i havent noticed any leakage on mine yet, ill post back with the weight after i do that

 

Just to clear alot of stuff up, if there is going to be a refresh Studio XPS, it will have a card stronger than the XPS m1530. There is no way Dell would put a 9500GS or a 9300GS in its top of the line 15incher.If every other major
Brand is using a 9600GT in their 15in laptops, Why would Dell put a lower spec card in? Sure, they might want to leave gaming to Alienware, but that means EXTREME gaming; 9800GTS and above. 9600GT is not classified as a powerful card. There you have it, the next xps 15in will have a more powerful card than the m1530

 

That line of reasoning makes sense too, unless Dell starts selling 15-16 inch alien ware's on their site to compete with other manufacturer's. It would not make sense to leave a gap in the market but HP has done it before while only offering an integrated solution on their 14 / 15 incher (two three generations ago). I don't remember the exact model number otherwise would have let you know.

You've raised a pretty good point though that Dell would be shooting itself in the foot if it did not offer competitive video upgrades. Would you agree though that the new 1530 replacement will be heavier seeing as it will be a 16 incher or above.

 

I have the LCD 1440x900 res...I was one of the *early birds* with the 1530...I got mine in 1/08 A few months before the LED came out..

But it's an LG, and I like it very much! My next lappy will surely have a LED I have not one complaint about my screen!


Cin

 

it still wont be as loaded as it would have been if it was a pure xps laptop tho. they are trying to dumb it down a bit to sell a cheaper mid level laptop and not take sales from alienware which they will probably enhance a bit too. You very well could see only a 9500 on the new studio xps i mean the studio 15 now only has a 3450 option u can only get the 3650 in the studio 17 so who knows.

 

Lol if you care about gaming THAT much you wouldn't buy a laptop to game on anyway.

There are many latops out there more powerful than the XPS M1530, I wanted something mainly to play HL2, CS:S, DOD:S etc casually but it is mainly for programming and photoshop etc etc, does what I need perfectly.

If Dell change to 16.4 screen size then I would avoid their next "XPS Equvillent" and go for another brand because for me 15.4" is max size. Who NEEDS 16:9 aspect ratio on a laptop, use a HDTV lol.

 

P.S The Studio 17 3650 is about as powerful as the 8600M because it is an old old card, they may start to offer these in the Studio 15 soon who knows, and then offer the 9600M in the Studio XPS.

 

Looking forward to your weight test as i've heard the 1530 with the LED screen weighs less.

 

mine with the 6 cell in weighs about 5.5 to 5.7 lbs, sry i wasnt able to get an exact precise measurement but its right around there, so it may be slightly lighter with the LED screen since cin got about 5.9

 

Thanks Face that helps a lot. My 1420 weighs 5.4 lbs with the 6 cell and 6lbs with the 9 cell. Even if the 1530 weighs 5.6 lbs with the LED & 6 cell, that's not bad at all

 

yea it really isnt that heavy, its lighter than the studio 15 i had for a few days before it.