Just got my Studio XPS 13!

I bought it from the outlet and it came today. I have a concern about the screen though. At the top there is a section that I can push in and it will move a bit. Is it supposed to be all solid up there? Could dust go in from there? I hope not I don't want to deal with returning it.

EDIT: WOW there is ZERO crapware on this computer! Does the outlet format computers by hand or what?

EDIT 2: It seems Windows 7 7077 x64 is working fine. It can switch graphics modes and come in and out of sleep just fine.

EDIT 3: It froze when switching graphics mode. I am just going to disable Hybrid SLI on balanced mode so that it only works on high performance mode. That way it will never freeze when I am not at home and about to play a game.

EDIT 4: Left the computer alone for a bit and came back to a black screen. I will just use Vista until 7 works better.

 

I have the same issue with the top of the screen.

I am also impressed with the lack of crapware, however I was having issues with crashing so I reinstalled vista anyway, it works a lot better now.

 

My pre-installed Vista is working perfectly! Is it only the outlet ones that have no crapware or do the new ones also have no crapware?

 

I think they all have very little crapware. IIRC my Vostro from 2 years ago also had very little crapware.

However, I'm one of those people who think 1 piece of useless software is 1 piece too many. I prefer a clean install... why can't they just give me a drivers-only install? (Well that, and I have my own partitioning preferences).

 

The Outlet machines should be configured in the same manner as their new counterparts. Even if the factory image is relatively clean, I'd second xScorp1on and do a clean install. You never know what ugly mess is hiding under the exterior of even the cleanest factory image.