1420 Is Here!! Pics Momentarily

Hey -- how thick is that laptop? it looks thick as hell.

Also, is that the 9cell battery that is sticking out?

 

I apologize, I forgot all about the measurements.

Length - 13 1/8"
Width (not including 9-cell batt) - 9 5/8"
Width (including 9-cell batt) - 10 1/8"
Thickness (thickest point) - 1 5/8" (including feetpads)
Thickness (thinnest point) - 1 3/8" (including feetpads)

What does doing a review entail? Never done an official one before, but I'd be willing to give it a shot!

 

See above, and yes, that's the 9-cell.

 

usually running several bench marking programs like 3dmark05/06, pcmark05, hdtune, etc. battery life, measurements, screen, etc.

Just read one of Andrew's reviews in the review section to generally see the format we use if you feel up to it, give Andrew a PM and thanks for the measurements!

 

damn that's thick.

 

Hey, some girls like it thick...

 

solution = sandpaper

 

And some like thick girls.

 

Hahahaha this picture really made me ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahhahahaa

 

please?

 

i have to be honest, i've got a small package. i did choose the 1420, after all. but does size really matter?

 

Ok I just checked clock speeds in RivaTuner...Looks like we're underclocked here also, showing GPU 400 / Mem 500 MHz...Notebook check says it should be 400 / 600... Hmmm...

 

Love the sleeve.. It looks really cool. Thanks again..
Can't wait for mine, it's in production.

 

Can you check the make/model of the HDD and LCD? thanks

 

those vista scores look low to me.

 

has anyone considered formatting and doing a fresh install of Windows XP?!

 

^Thats what i'm doing when my laptop arrives.

 

@b0r
You have an "NBR Linux Team" banner and you purchased a notebook with an ATI GPU. Not exactly the best idea. You didn't get the Broadcom Dell wireless as well, did you?

 

does the notebook's hard drive come with one partition where the whole thing is dumped or it is partitioned into more partitions? how large is C: if latter is the case?

 

It's in two partitions as is typical of Dells, an "OS (C " and a "Recovery (D ".

C: has 136GB formatted, and D: has 9.99GB formatted.

 

Already talked about the LCD in this thread but to repeat it's a Chi Mei Optronics, and it is the antiglare 14.1 1280x800.

The HDD is a Western Digital WD1600BEVS-75RST0, which I have found was also used in at least the M1710 by doing some Googling. It is a 5400RPM drive with 8MB of cache. This is the model page: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=264

The DVDRW is an Optiarc AD-5540A, which I have learned is a joint venture of Sony and NEC. This is the model page: http://www.sonynec-optiarc.de/en/exhibits/slim-line-drives/ad-5540a.html

 

Something you have to keep in mind is that these scores were those generated first boot before ever even getting to the desktop for the first time.

I don't see how anything installed on the laptop could possibly have effected them. But just for grins I'm going to rerun them now and we will see if they change...

 

i believe its actually 4 partitions if im not mistaken.

OS
Recovery of OS
Dell utilites
and that small part that cant be partitioned for bios or whatever its for

 

Yes this is true I forgot to open up the Admin tools and check, I'll do that one sec.

 

Ok rerun is complete, all that changed was Gaming Graphics. Previously was a 4.4, now is a 4.5. That probably falls within the error of the system.

 

There are indeed 4 partitions, only two of which are accessible by the user.

They are:
OS, 136.48 GB, formatted NTFS
Recovery, 10.00 GB, formatted NTFS
Unnamed, 2.5 GB, file system unknown
Unnamed, 71 MB, file system unknown

 

how many pounds is the 1420 minus the extended battery? From your pics it looks pretty thick!

thanks

 

Nice the 1420 looks very slick. I had one on order and canceled it. I just don't need a laptop with all that power atm. I did get a good deal on an outlet Dell E521 Desktop. BTW to the original poster, get a program called Core Temp. It will give you the most accurate readings for cpu temps.

 

I wish they had put the OS on a 20-25GB partition and left the rest for user data. I wish they allowed it during configuring (they do for latitudes). I guess I will need to waste some time with QtParted to get what I want.

 

How are the viewing angles on the 1440x 900 screen?
I had an ASUS that I found to be completely unacceptable, whereas the 1280x800 ones were fine.

 

it is not too thick. it is about normal because he is including the foot pads

 

so if you were buying a m1330 with 32gb how much data space would you have lol

 

That is a very good question. I would guess approximately half, maybe a little more.

Certainly could see the advantage of an Expresscard SSD in that case.

 

I would say the footpads add approximately 1/8" of an inch to the overall thickness.

In this post in this thread I had a picture comparing an e1505 to the 1420. i would say at the thickest they are equal. I will make an update picture with both sitting on a hard surface to get a better comparison.

 

yah lol just thought that would be funny and is solid state the same as non where a 120gb hdd is about 109gb or so left after partitioning and formating so there is a loss of a few gb so yah you only have 12-16gb free without bloatware

 

Yeah, going to have to disagree with you on the wonderfulness quotient of CoreTemp...

 

Ok so about that temperature reading thing...




Left most two are from CoreTemp, middle (lowest) is Speedfan, and rightmost is i8KFanGui. When I post my PCMark results I will also post the temp logs from Speedfan and i8KFanGui.

 

It is however heavy Dell says it is - I don't have anyway of measuring it here at home, sorry.

I may get clever over at the supermarket later though as I would like to know.

 

have you used notebook hardware controller yet?

its a wonderful app. i havent seen it mentioned on this board yet!

 

Never heard of it. Checking it out now though...

http://www.pbus-167.com/

EDIT
Note that there is a special version of this software for Dell computers on the download page.

 

you and everyone else WILL LOVE IT.

undervolting made easy, temp monitor, all sorts of goodies.

cant believe you dont know about this! its probably the best thing for a notebook

 

Well, it comes down to this being my first personal laptop

 

thats ok, i forgive you after all you have good taste (my laptop is identical), and you own a goat

 

Here are the PCMark results. For the temp pictures, the highest ones are the peak temps I saw during PCMark, Speedfan was always much lower than i8KFanGui.

 

The XPS M1330 in the review on this site scored 4597 by comparison.

Again, same as 3DMark, I just restarted and then ran the benchmark. Same drivers and everything as last night. And I didn't kill any processes or anything.

 

Ok so I have NHC installed now and i8KFanGui and NHC read very similarly in temperature. However NHC can't see my HDD temperature. HDTune was able to see my HDD temperature. Interesting...

I didn't like how NHC changed my brightness immediately upon running the program. But it seems like it has some nifty features.

 

Are you going to reformat yours and have one partition?

 

phobos just wanted to let you know theres an alternative to taking actual photos for the tests.

press the "print scrn" button on your keyboard
open up paint and ctrl+v (paste)

it'll make pictures more clear not to mention easier to get pictures