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    New dells - m1330 and inspirons

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by spikester_05, Jun 13, 2007.

  1. spikester_05

    spikester_05 Notebook Guru

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    HI

    I currently have a dell m1210, and i am looking to get the new XPS m1330.

    But, does anyone have any idea on when it might be released, and also what are your thoughts on it? (Particular the weak graphics card)

    Also, on engadget I see there are some new inspirons, but what is RAID?

    Thanx :)

    Here a link to the new inspirons
    http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/pics-and-specs-of-dells-new-inspirons/
     
    spikester_05, Jun 13, 2007
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  2. Johnmcl7

    Johnmcl7 Notebook Consultant

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    No idea when the new XPS is out but Raid stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - the basic concept is to have multiple, cheaper hard drives to give you the performance and reliability of a much more expensive hard drive.

    In laptops, it basically comes down to running a pair of hard drives together in either RAID 0 or RAID 1:

    RAID 0 - half the data is written to each disk at the same time which theoretically doubles your read and write speed. In reality the speed gains tend to be small unless you are working with large files as each disk needs to be in sync with the other for reading/writing which means one disk will often have to wait for the other. Also as each disk contains only half your data, if one fails you lose everything from both disks.

    RAID 1 - a mirror, when data is written to the hard drives it is written to both at the same time making each disk a perfect copy of the other. If one disk fails you lose nothing, you simply replace the failed drive, resync and continue

    John
     
    Johnmcl7, Jun 13, 2007
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  3. mtor

    mtor Notebook Deity

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    Thanks for explaining Raid
     
    mtor, Jun 13, 2007
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  4. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    The XPS M1330 is supposed to be officially announced on the 26th of this month.
     
    Jayayess1190, Jun 13, 2007
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