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    Giddy with excitement

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by fifafreak18, Feb 15, 2012.

  1. fifafreak18

    fifafreak18 Notebook Evangelist

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    XPS 15
    2.2 Ghz Quad Core
    8GB RAM
    750GB 7200rpm (possibly SSD in the optical drive slot)
    Blu-ray player (not writer)
    GT 525M
    1920x1080 screen
    9-cell battery

    Couldn't be more excited. My last laptop (in sig) crapped out, just put in the order for this yesterday. Unfortunately I probably won't be able to get it until I'm home in a few weeks.

    Giddy I tell you :)
     
    fifafreak18, Feb 15, 2012
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    rabbitz Notebook Consultant

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    Nice. I would recommend you put the ssd into the main hard drive slot and put your hdd in the optical - I think the speeds are faster in the main slot.
     
    rabbitz, Feb 16, 2012
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    fifafreak18 Notebook Evangelist

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    I will likely do that, however its just not guaranteed yet that I will have the SSD. This is probably an easy forum search away, but does anyone have any comment on the amount of bloatware that comes pre-installed? I know I'll already have a 30-day McAfee on there, is there anything else that will give me trouble?

    On my old toshiba there were a lot of troublesome software tools pre-installed, some of them I was never able to get rid of.
     
    fifafreak18, Feb 17, 2012
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    toronto Notebook Deity

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    Not that much. You can easily deal with it using Revo Uninstaller. I uninstalled McAfee, Dell Stage, Bing, Roxio, and a few others. It wasn't a big deal, nowhere near as much junk as when I setup a Sony Vaio.
     
    toronto, Feb 17, 2012
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