**Official Dell XPS M1530 Owner's Lounge**

Are you saying you just received the M1530 WUXGA? If so please post the Dell P/N from the service tag and the monitor hardware ID from device manager.

Thanks

 

No I just placed my order yesterday in the madness frenzy of discounts. It wont be here til end of next month (5/20)... at least thats what Order Status says.

 

ordered m1530 on the 14th, website shows pre-production as of today allthough according to their livechat service its in production....reckon it will come this week?

 

Info regarding delays in shipping depending upon your screen selection:


Full Hi Definition, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD (1920x1200) & 2.0 M 15 days
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1440x900) & 2MP Camera 10 days
High Resolution glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1680x1050) & 2MP Camera None
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LED LCD (1440x900) & 2.0 M None

I wonder why there is no mention of a 1680x1050 LED that I keep hearing about.

 

hmm were the three returns at all, or were all 3 original orders? same goes for the M1330. just seems weird my original had the plastic film and this one did not.

 

because it does not exist yet i have heard people (myself being 1) talk about it, but who knows if dell will ever release it. is there currently any brand that makes an LED screen with that resolution?

 

I dont know. I just want my laptop here already.

By the way, does anyone know why there is no mention of Turbo Memory as an option / feature?

 

Just ordered a xps 1530.

Intel T9300 2.5 ghz
320gb 5400rpm HD
4 gigs of 667mhz DDR2
8600m GT 256mb
Intel Wireless-N WiFi Card

1380 including ship/tax

 

I ordered a similar configuration yesterday except with 2.4 ghz and a 4 year warranty. Seemed like a good deal to me and I needed a comp for the next 4 years to make it through the hells of grad school (as I will have no money until i graduate). Here's to hoping the 1680x1050 screens aren't as bad as everyone is making them out to be.

 

As long as you get the LG one you'll be fine.

 

How's this:

T8300 2.4GHz
4GB DDR2
15.4 inch Wide Screen WSXGA+ TrueLife
256MB GeForce 8600M
250GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Vista Home Premium
8X DVD+/-RW
4 Year Warranty with $70 DELL gift card

for a final price (with tax) $1380 or $1310 with free $70 gift card. Cant wait, the thing is a behemoth !!!!

First thing I am doing when I get it is downgrading to XP

PS:I think of it this way, if there is a better deal later this week, I can always cancel or ship it back.

 

Doesn't seem too bad to me, mine was a little cheaper yesterday but not by much. I'd say just enjoy the lappy.

I'm not sure you can ship it back without being charged a 15% restocking fee, around $200 for your total, unless there is something wrong with it. At least that is what a rep told me but he may not know what he is talking about.

 

But, there is no restocking fee to get a different LCD screen, right?

In this article,

http://www.matbennett.com/tech/dell-truelife-screen.php

Does that mean one can replace their glossy screen with a matte screen, DELL will do that?

Thanks for clearing that up!

 

That is a 2 year old page. So I dont think you should trust that as an absolute answer. However, I am sure that if you just recently got it you should be able to have some leverage saying that you are not satisfied with the product.

 

Hi, i know i have brought this up before, but i might give it another shot in this lounge, cos i am still not convinced these symptoms are normal.

My 8600M GT in my M1530 is heating up to 72 on idle, before the fans kick in and bring it back down to 58-59, it does this constantly, while i am using the computer, unless i am stressing the cpu where the fan stays on and keeps the GPU down.

Would dell take this problem seriously? or is it not a problem at all? Someone suggested it could be a poorly positioned heatsink.

PS: my CPU gets up to 72 under stress (encoding HD) is this also normal?

 

Does anyone know which Taiwanese laptop vendor makes the dell xps laptop line? I was thinking they were clevo's, but i visited their website and none of the model's matched. It's either Quanta or Compal who makes the xps line, such as the m1330 and m1530. does anyone know for sure? If it's quanta, the innards of the laptop are usually covered with quanta labels. Has anyone seen any labels of the sort on the inside of their laptop, specifically the m1530?

 

Ordered my XPS M1530 Today

2.40Ghz Process
256mb 8600M GT Graphics Card
4GB RAM
320GB Hard Drive
15.4" Widescreen WXGA+ (1440x900) TFT Display with TrueLife™

Should be here within 10 working days
Anybody got theres before 10 working days?

 

Cool, what you pay + what warranty did you choose?

Anywho, can someone point me to where I can download the drivers to downgrade from Vista to XP?

Thanks a million!

 

Price was £745, not the greatest price ever. But it does everything i want, and i need it relatively soon.

 

Why dont you opt for the 1440x900 LED display option?

 

Not available outside the US and Canada yet?

 

I placed my order for a blue XPS M1530 on April 19, now I just have to wait...

Specs:
T8300 2.4GHz
4GB DDR2
15.4 inch Wide Screen WSXGA+ TrueLife
256MB GeForce 8600M
320GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Vista Home Premium
Intel AGN
Bluetooth
3 Year Warranty with accidential damage

...all for $1310 before tax. Could have saved an additional $120 or so, but saving over $800 is not shabby this time of the year. Those EPP and coupons sure help!

 

I will be ordering this m1530 this weekend, is there any way to have dell not install the extra bloat ware. This is my first laptop so if something here looks strange or wrong/incompatible please let me know.

T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB, 3MB Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
High Resolution, glossy LED LCD (1440x900) & 2.0 M
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
320GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
Slot Load Blu -ray Disc (BD/DVD/CD read/write)
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)
56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition

 

Are you getting that with the 40% off deal?

 

StrikeOne, you should try to order ASAP. We're not sure how much discount Dell will have on the M1530 this weekend.

 

Yeah I checked the us site the 40% deal is off they have some other deal but not as good.

 

they have $599 off, is that the deal your talking about, cause it says its good till may 2nd

 

No they had a 40% off deal it was like $749 off of pretty much the laptop you are getting. I think the price after was $1,099 or something around there

 

hey did you see my message before?

Were the 4 all brand new units and not returns whatsoever?

 

I got all this for $$994.50 Plus tax 69.61=$1,064.11

XPS M1530, Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz/800MHzFSB, 3M L2 Cache)
Midnight Blue Casing With Microsatin Finish XPS M1530
4GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm, for XPS M1530
15.4 inch Full Hi Definition Wide Screen WUXGA TrueLife LCDwith Camera for XPS M1530
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for XPS M1530
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, English
Media Direct 3.5
DELL SUPPORT 3.4,DIM/INSP
Internet Search and Portal
Icon Consolidation Application
Vista, PC-Restore, Dim/Insp
Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access
DELL RESOURCE DVD,BACK-UP, XPSM1530
Turbine Lord of the Rings Online
ADOBE ACROBAT READER 8.1 DIM/INSP
8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive for XPSM1530
Roxio Creator DE 10
Integrated High Definition Audio 2.0
Intel 4965AGN Wireless-N Mini-card
Trend Micro PC-cillin InternetSecurity, English, 2-Years Subscription
56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion P Primary Battery, for XPS M1530
2 Year Limited Warranty
Finger Print Reader XPS M1530
15.4 inch Blue Wide Screen WUXGA TrueLife LCD with 2.0 MPCamera for XPS M1530
Camera Software XPS M1530 2.0MP
Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor
DataSafe Online Dim/Ins/XPS
DataSafe Online Dim/Ins/XPS 1YR-FREE
Insp Datasafe 3GB,1YR(Incl in price),DHS

 

Grats elitehomegifts. I have a similar config, but with the 160, audigy, and the 9 cell battery. Mine was 1284.55. I missed out on the 6% AAA coupon *sigh*... would've been nearly $1200 with AAA. Oh well. Does your ship date show 5/25ish ? =[

 

They were 3 new system orders and one was a new replacement.

 

aww maybe i will keep it then. I was a bit worried it was just a refurb. They told me it wasent and refurbs have red labels on the box.

Also what score are you guys getting for the gaming graphics on the card? I get 5.4 on 1 system and 5.5 on the other. They both have the same drivers 174.31

 

temps on gpu cpu? mine gets to 72 on idle then the fan kicks in. 78-79 gaming.

 

ship date shows 5/23/08... I know the reason for this is the new lcd that I'm getting

 

so I talked to my dell rep and she said she was not sure why there was no plastic film and she asked another head and he was unsure as to why there wasent either. Which makes me wonder if infact maybe its not a new system.

Btw what brand drives did u guys get for the dvd burners? one of mine is a matsu****a and the other is a optiarc. I have never heard of optiarc before.

 

Optiarc = Sony

I wont have mine for a month, but yeah Optiarc is Sony's name for their optical drive line

 

I'll be using mine for listening to music and watching movies a lot, both with head phones and speakers, should i opt for the ExpressCard Sound Blaster X-Fi® Xtreme Audio Sound Card, how much better is it than the Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition?

 

I have an X-Fi in my desktop, and it definitely makes a difference.

 

do you know how it compares to the Sound Blaster Audigy HD?

 

i do not, as i do not have mine yet. i ordered mine with the HD Software, as I do not plan on using anything but the laptop speakers for sound.

 

Wanted to chime in, that after checking my service tag, its listed as:

DW306 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY..., 15.4WSXGA+, TLF, LGP, V2

- so there is still luck and its still possible to get a LG instead of a Samsung

 

got my service tag today and looks like we got the same thing xD

4/30/08 <3

 

Two questions:


1) Referring to the screen choices for the m1530, what is the difference between the High Resolution, glossy widescreen LED LCD (1680x1050) and the Full Hi Definition glossy widescreen LCD (1920x1200)? The LED one is more expensive, but for some reason the words "full hi definition" lead me to believe that it would be the better screen choice. Also, I can adjust the size of text on these high resolutions right? Don't wanna be squinting my eyes when reading something...


2) I'm looking to get me one of these for when I start college in August. Should I take advantage of the $599 savings and snatch one up right now or wait for a possible redesign/update of the m1530 that might release during the summer?

 

When it says "Full Hi Definition" it means it can play 1080p (1920 x 1200) BluRay/HD movies in its "original dimensions".

Just from reading, it seems impractical since most have said your vision will decrease dramatically (go blind) if you use a 1920 15inch monitor since the font is so small.

 

Which games are you playing with your M1530s???

 

Do not really play games, but if I do - I play "Total War"

 

But can't you just lower the resolution settings in the control panel when you want to read text and just switch back when you want to watch movies?

and/or ctrl +.......?

 

That's what I thought too, now I am not sure myself....

 

I'm still waiting for my M1530, but LCDs are best run in their native resolution, or else everything looks fuzzy. I'm sure the drivers will allow for the resolution to be adjusted, but be prepared for a less-than-optimal experience.