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    Thanks to HP for my M1330

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by LordRasta, Dec 10, 2009.

  1. LordRasta

    LordRasta Notebook Consultant

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    Why am I thanking HP for my Dell M1330? A couple of years ago as my oldest was leaving home for college, we got him a HP DV9000T. It's a massive desktop replacement but I liked it so much that I got the DV9000Z. The difference was his has the Intel chip and mines has the AMD chip. These machines also using the nVidia GPU, tended to overheat, crack the left hinge completely then fail. Ours failed within a week of each other. HP took them both back and replaced all the failed parts at no charge. So when I ordered my M1330 and saw the nVidia option.....I steered clear and went with the integrated graphics. I've had no issues with my M1330 and recently upgraded it with a 64gb SSD and a X9000 CPU running Windows 7. It is by far the best laptop I have ever owned.
     
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  2. BlackRussian

    BlackRussian Notebook Deity

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    Welcome yes I overstand what your saying about the M1330.
    I also have an intel the rest are nVidia based units, the only problem we had back in the days of their release was the 1st unit intel based we only order it with 1Gb of ram which ran dead slow with Vista plus all the crapware installed. After a wipe and XP Pro install all was fine with the 1 Gb. The only issues was the X from the XPS logo came of the lid within 2days of having the laptop a call to Dell fixed this by sending out a new lid by Tec engineer. As for the rest of M1330 nothing to date apart from me ringing Tec support and asking to replace Panasonic DVD drives with HT-DT-ST GSA-S10N units.
    Other personal mods to our M1330 have kept the alive...
     
    BlackRussian, Dec 10, 2009
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