http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/ Engadget Comments for Dell XPS 700 reviewed and ripped apart http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/
They aren't signs of good, objective journalism.
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lol]]>Sep 4th 2006 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/
@Eli

Is that what they've told you to think, or did you have a DELL with spyware on it? I don't find it out of the question, but a little hard to believe...I got a new dell last year and had no spyware on it at all.]]>Sep 4th 2006 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 4th 2006 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 5th 2006 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/
Considering the shit that Dell loads in their default image. Yah there are some "utilities" that could def be considered spyware. This is why I tell anyone who gets a new Dell to nuke the OS from orbit with the restore CD....Or call up Dell to send you restore CD's since now a days they are too cheap to even do that. Just tell them you are trying to resgtore from the restore partition and it doesn't work and they will send them out.

Again. Nuke it from orbit..its the only way to be sure.]]>Sep 5th 2006 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/
Depends on who you are talking to. A fanboi wouldn't consider it objective since it strikes at the heart of their borderline fetish.
But anyone who isn't a fanboi will treat it as stressing the point that its stupid.]]>Sep 5th 2006 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/Sep 5th 2006 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/

John Doe: I also belive Dell has a image for thier XPS line that doesnt include any of that "shit" as you put it. Also, from what I heard the reason why they don't ship those cd's at point of sale (you can request it when you purchase the system) is that they had some insane percentage of people that when they called in for tech support they had lost (read "thrown out") thier OS cd. Why ship something that is just going to be thrown out?]]>Sep 5th 2006 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/
that's not true, the image my XPS had upon bootup was so slow due to all that crap they preload. It took me 30 minutes (25 of waiting for everything to load) to start planning a fresh build for my pc. Today- my machine runs solid. Dell or not- it's how YOU build and maintain your machine that makes all the difference.
P.S.- my other solid machine is a mac mini. those machines just work right out of the box!]]>Sep 5th 2006 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/04/dell-xps-700-reviewed-and-ripped-apart/
Although I have to say he at least admits his bias is actually more fair than probably 90% of the tech media. And he does take the ocassional swipe at Apple products also. His conclusions about the XPS700 weren't actually that bad.

"Dell has done what many thought would be beyond it - created a decent gaming system that hardcore enthusiasts would be happy to have on their desk. The engineers have nailed the industrial design and the core internal design, but the guys haven't quite managed to get the components and the pricing right. But for all our ragging on the component specifications, Dell has really got the core of this system spot on, and for that it earns our Recommended award."

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Could you go 'deals' your fly by night, black market, trash elsewhere?
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There are issues with BIOS of this system - the "VT" and "EMT64" features of the Core2Duo processor have been disabled in the BIOS by Dell, and the machine futhermore is unable to use 800mhz DDR memory.

PS: In case you're wondering, VT support is needed by Windows Vista and Vmware, and EMT64 lets you run a 64 bit operating system.]]>Sep 14th 2006 7:41AM