**The Official Studio XPS 1645 Intel Core i7 "Owners Lounge" - Part 2

goodwood,

See this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=462786

Oh, and by the way, with a 90 Watt adapter; I can guarantee that you are throttling.

 

Dude..... You are kidding right??? With a 90W adapter, there is no issue of heat coming into the picture as the laptop is throttled and hence lesser power consumption and which gives away lesser heat... Wait for your 130W adapter and then turn on a game or play a full 1080p HD movie and then you will feel what we are feeling.... FRUSTRATION.....

 

Guys a little help here.....

Anyone tried to get a 6-cell battery for this laptop???? I need one and the freaks over at CUSTOMER CARE tell that this laptop is not compatible with this and crap like that..... I asked them the battery they use for STUDIO XPS 1640 and they said that 1640 comes with a 9-cell battery too..... What can i put into their brains so that they will ship me one?????

Another question: Does the 6-cell battery of the 1640 support the 1645????

 

Just buy it yourself through this link....
I don't know why you need customer care to buy a battery?

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/Power/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&cs=cadhs1&sku=312-0814

 

Reinstall windows ? call dell to check if its hardware ?

 

Well I was wanting a laptop with some power and liked the design of these XPS 16s so ordered one out of the outlet last night. Needed something powerful to run some VMs for SharePoint/.NET development.

After some research guess I need to request the 130watt adapter.

Seemed to have everything I wanted except I need to swap out the 4gb RAM to 8gb. Hopefully $1289 sticker price was fair. Seemed like it was with the SSD drive. Can't wait to try it out.


Studio XPS 16 - 1645 Laptop
1 Processor: Intel Core i7-720QM Quad Core Processor 1.6GHz (2.8GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB Cache)
1 Genuine Windows 7 Professional
1 6X Slot Load Bluray (BD) Combo Drive (BD Read Only)
1 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
1 256 GB Solid State Drive Ultra Performance
1 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Panzer software version 1.2
1 Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module
1 15.6 inch Edge-to-Edge FHD Widescreen WLED LCD (1920x1080)
1 Intel WiFi Link 5300 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card
1 9 Cell, 85 WHr Lithium Ion Primary Battery
1 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

 

Hi everybody, just received my XPS 1645 just few days ago, and need some advice on a problem.

This problem is just bugging the crap out of me. I have my usual sites i check up on for daily news. This one happens to be a mmorpg news site for the latest online games. http://www.mmosite.com/
This site drives up my cpu usage from about 3% idle, to 20-25%. On my old laptop it went up to about 77%. Regardless, my old laptop can surf that site smoothly.
But on this new XPS I keep getting lagging/throttling effects. Its not a throttling issue, but i get sloppy slow effects. Example, I scroll down it takes a 30 seconds until it registers and scrolls down the page. Anyone know what this issue might be and how it could be solved. Im afraid doing any other intensive cpu resource hoarding will give out the same effect. Can this be tested?

 

Try the below website. I hope it will help .Let me know if you are successful:wink:
http://www.primeabgb.com/

http://www.arcticsilver.com/international_resellers.htm

 

I know that thread, and I am NOT throttling, maybe that's because i havent gamed on this yet or havent watched any HD videos :/

 

I dont know what are the symptoms of throttling but my friend who got his laptop yesterday installed assasin's creed. After playing for a while, the system heats up and the game turns all wierd with graphic glitches here and there. Is that a symptom of throttling? He's on the 130w brick adapter btw.

 

today i received the 130 w adapter.
on it there is written pa-4e family and part no-cm161.
is this the brick one or slim one...

 

If its almost as thin as the 90W adapter, its the slim one, no ? and yea, that is throttling ... the graphic glitches is throttling.

 

It's the slim one.

 

Anyone know where to get the 130W Slim for cheap. I hope to get Dell to ship me one when I get my unit Wednesday, but I want one for home and one for traveling.

TIA

 

It's possible to replace the Optical Slot-load Drive with a Tray-Load Drive ?

 

Led, why don't you just ask Dell you want to PURCHASE an EXTRA one. I'm sure they won't mind, considering they will charge you some 100$

 

Yes i suppose so, but u would hav to cut a hole in ur laptop for the tray to slide in and out

 

hey guys,help me out..

my power adapter stops working at random intervals..if i unplug and plug again,it starts to work again..what could be the reason?has any1 experienced this?

P.S: sorry for my bad English..

 

Dude... I am right now in INDIA.... So this site aint helpful and they dont sell this in DELL's indian website.....

 

Thanks a lot dude.... But i got the site from where i will be purchasing it.... Much much cheaper....

Check it out if you want to buy too...
http://www.lynx-india.com/index.php?productID=10857

 

Yeah dude... Same thing happens for me too... First i thought it was because of some browser issue but the site works perfectly in my old dual core laptop..... Check out this site too....
http://www.filehippo.com

The scrolling is registering a little late... Any ideas why this is happening???

 

Site works just fine for me. Using Google Chrome as my browser, no CPU spiking either.

 

Is it possible for you to try the same in FIREFOX and OPERA and check whether there is any issue???? Just to confirm that it is browser based???

 

works fine in both FF and Opera 10.5

 

It could've been a temporary site glitch/error. It happens. Seems to be working just fine now.

 

working ok in mine too. with the mmo site, like half a second lag, once. thats all.

 

Ok so finally after tinkering for 4 hours i found the problem.

Not being use to the 1080p widescreen, the letters and pictures and overall site seemed too small to me. So i have the firefox app Nosquint to set me zoom views at 120%. Apparently the sites that me and Alchemist mentioned are not compatible to this view and can only be viewed at 100%. I find that kinda stupid, have no idea why that is, and now im stuck with small letters and pictures. If anyone can confirm this at the mmosite.com and try zooming in and out to see if it gives any sluggish slow issues, that would be fantastic.

 

m1ntz,

I don't think there is anything wrong with you, the machine, or the browser. I think that that particular site overwhelmed me with Flash.

Fire that site up with No Script and Flashblock, and it works great; no matter the resolution.

 

Is there anyway to get the new 5730 GPU into our machines???? I heard it is much much better than the 4670 in terms of performance and heat...

 

Is it possible to make quickset not control the keyboard at all? I hate the little A box that pops up and it's giving me problems while I type, I press the button too fast for it to register sometimes and it lags and stops typing. without quickset installed this doesn't happen. It's very very annoying.

 

anyone experiencing some low static noise near left speaker?
im not sure what is causing this annoying noise, it definitely doesn't sound like hard drive. what chips / circuits are below or near left speaker?

 

The graphics card, the heatsink and the fan as far as i know.....

 

lol. Alch, from what i've heard ... the GPU is soldered onto the Mobo ... so no you cant

 

Dude... U have to be kidding me... All those that i mentioned there are near and around the left speaker..... Check it out if you dont believe me.....

And the graphics card is a chip as far as the four years of my Bachelors degree revealed.....

 

sxps 16 gpu is soldered onto mobo. you wanna swap you'll need them to give you a whole new mobo w 5730 gpu

 

Sorry to burst your bubble man, but it is definitely an intergrated part of the motherboard in these laptops.

Some graphics card are swappable like possibly in the 1647s but definitely not in the 1645s.....

So stop arguing with people on something you are clearly wrong about.

 

Hi all,

I had two xps1645s and sent both back (many issues from shaky bases to screen going blank when unplugging power to downloads or recording - laptop still went to sleep during those tasks! to SSD freezing, hard freeze)

Anyway, I am getting a full refund which makes sense for me since I bought in OCT so a full refund will be a few hundred more than what it costs to build the same today.

Few things

1) I was looking to Sony or a rival but amazingly, there is jack out there to compete with the XPS1645, Sony F series gets poor reviews for audio and screen - is there a true competitor to the XPS1645 (don't say envy)

2) If I was to try the XPS1645 again, it now doesn't come with a BLU-RAY Burner so essentially tech. is going backwards on the XPS line, from I7's to I5s and from Blue ray to DVD. I know I can still get the I7 but does anyone know why they have dropped the BLU-RAY burner? I have been waiting the last two months for the option to re-appear, isn't happening

I figure I should hold tight till summer and maybe something will come up, not eager to try Dell again, poor workmanship and support but some of the best configs period, HP and Sony a joke compared to yesteryear in terms of config. for high end media laptops.

Any advice...appreciated

 

I can still configure 1645 with bluray drive with RGBLED screen. Why can't you?

 

GPU is soldered on my friend. If you want a GPU upgrade in the future, you'll have to replace your whole motherboard.

 

Blu-Ray or Blu-Ray burner?

Can't see blu-ray burner on .ca or .com

 

Well it's official. This laptop as shipped SUCKS!

Locked 5 times since I got it last night. Uninstalled Soundblaster stuff as recommended and now I got no sound, can't open sound properties and Firefox locks up when trying to play a Youtube I assume due to the sound problem.

I know I need to rebuild, but I am not ready yet and I shouldn't have to.

EDIT: Now after another reboot the sound is back.

 

Just wondering, with everyone who has 1080p resolution, how can you stand the small size of everything. Especially when surfing the net, everything is miniature. Unless your zooming or using add-ons to make it better. If so which ones are you using

 

You've uninstalled Soundblaster which is the bogey software on this system (and really doesn't do much for sound). Now install the newest IDT drivers from this thread. The freezes in FF are not caused by the sound but the flash player. Uninstall your flash player and install the Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate from here (Official 10.1 should drop soon, but these are good). Hope that helps.

 

Uninstal soundblaster, if u hav no sound now reinstal IDT audio driver from the dell downloads site.

And to fix the youtube freezes update the direct x drivers http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...010_redist.exe

Check out this thread for all the latest drivers

 

@E.D.U. & JKleiss

Thanks for the info. Flash works again now that the sound is back. I'll probably update the drivers, but I am trying not to do to much. I just need to backup my stuff to another drive so I can use that drive for my clean install. Then I'll use that thread to install all my stuff.

If you didn't see my edit, sound came back after another reboot for some reason.

 

I use Firefox and just zoom with CTL + +

Most sites zoom. I've been doing that since I got my M1530 couple years ago and my sight isn't what it used to be.

 

i just reformated my laptop, I have a studio xps 1645. Everything is great and up to date but my brightness buttons have stopped functioning. Anyone one know what the problem is? Is there some driver i need to download for them?

 

I wanted to partition the C drive into C, D, E drives. how can i do it without formatting and using which application. Also do i need to do full format before partiioning.

 

You need the Quickset driver.

 

That guy asked what n all are under the left speaker and i said the graphics card is also near the speaker..... I never said it is a chip or whatever you want to call it... No bad intentions..... Just want to get my point clear.

Just tell me.... If the graphics card is not a circuit or a chip then what is it???? I understand it is soldered into the mobo... Before that what is that part called?????

Anyways.... Let's just leave it there...... Cooleo!!!