Dell XPS M1730 spotted in the wild?

It looks like Dell is finally readying a followup to its M1710 speedster with the XPS M1730. The 17-inch laptop will of course be packing some Santa Rosa muscle, but according to rumors Dell's also going to provide that new Core 2 Extreme X7800 chip for the real speed demons / big spenders out there. For graphics the base models will be getting an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS card with 256MB of memory, with a 512MB GeForce 8700M GT waiting in the wings. Other rumored specs include 4GB max of RAM and a 512MB or 1GB Intel Turbo Memory option, Bluetooth 2.0, Blu-ray and that welcome numeric keypad addition. The word is this one will go on sale August 27th, and while the paint job is bordering on "crime against humanity," hopefully Dell will have a few more acceptable options to decorate this gaming beast whenever it does hit the market.

[Thanks, Matthias]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 7th 2007 8:27AM]

"Dell had a contract with another company to design the M1330 (*cough* ASUS *cough*)."

A lie. Asus has nothing to do with the XPS series of notebooks.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 11th 2007 11:06PM]

I know we all thought the initial images of the XPS M1730 were, for lack of a better word, disgusting.

However, on the NoteBook Italia website, new pictures have been posted of the rumored update to the M1710.

Take a look :: http://notebookitalia.it/dell-xps-1730-in-arrivo.html


The newer pictures were uploaded on the webpage on 8/10.


And now the wait begins until the rumored release, 8/27.

[lorax1284 Posted Aug 12th 2007 3:15PM]

The addition of those pics (also from LesDeLLiens, where the original photos came from) reinforces that, yes, it really WILL be that ugly!

{{Heavy sigh.}}

I so wanted to buy the next gen 17" XPS as soon as it hit the market: now I'm so having to wait until they fix the cosmetic atrocity and technical shortcomings.

Hurry, August 27th! Hurry!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 12th 2007 9:10PM]

Just so you know Dell XPS tech support as not even had training on this system and according to the docs they have it even looks photoshoped, and XPS tech support as not even seen the new system yet.

[Jervis961 Posted Aug 14th 2007 2:41PM]

The media buttons are gaffey and so is the usb on the side. Looks fake.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 15th 2007 10:07AM]

They're beyond "gaffey"... they've been overlaid with bitmaps of little white squares with the button symbols on them: whoever did it didn't even TRY to make them look 'real'. I thought they were done just to highlight "there are media player buttons on the front"... but they're identical in design to those on the 1720... so this could very well be a very early design concept mockup on a 1720, leaked to the media... for... some... bizarre, unknowable reason.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 16th 2007 11:12PM]

the information has been revelated by www.lesdelliens.com

Please engadget, always quote the websites who give the info in first...

Juste don't only copy it...

Thank you

JSWeyth
Admin www.LesDeLLiens.com

[Lonamower Posted Aug 31st 2007 10:50PM]

I was planning on saving for and XPS notebook but now I think I've changed my mind. If it's going to be that thick and horrifyingly ugly, I'm going to keep looking around. I'm extremely dissapointed. The M1710 looked good and this makes me wanna vomit.

[Steve2000 Posted Sep 17th 2007 4:17AM]

Why do XPS's always have to be so ugly? My 9400 may look boring but boring is better than getting laughed at any day.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2007 4:09AM]

dam man this is a hell of a notebook, matching desktop like extreme hardware, but we all do prefer alienware dont we? well i do dam alienware better come out with something new :) or else i might have to buy this ..... hope there will be like an area 51 m9800 b/c a lot of gamers like me going to college next year are going to be dissapointed :(

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2007 12:46AM]

Cool. Check out this video - looks like they show more of the system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzahumHOnSo