Dell's XPS M1730 gets more specs, more pics
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted August 24th 2007 12:45PM
posted August 24th 2007 12:45PM
posted August 24th 2007 12:45PM
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so... fugly
Why couldn't they have just made a blown up version of the XPS M1330? It would look so much nicer.
Alienware better come out with SLI 8700s soon or I may just have to consider buying this thing...
the only good thing about it (looks wise) is the backlit keyboard ... which is why it doesn't look like it belongs on that disaster of a laptop.
So ugly! Looks like it was designed by Homer Simpson. Where's the fins?
You mean the speed holes
Nobody brings the fugly like Dell!
The last thing a mega-power-hungry laptop needs is superfluous lighting.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that the front grills/fugly lights provided in the picture looks like the Delorean from Back to the Future? Only with dell...their future is questionable.
Questionable? Doubtful. Sure, this thing isn't the most appealing of things, but that's why they offer the same chassis in other lines like their Precisions and Inspirons for those who have different tastes.
It looks like KITT from Knight Rider.
Way ugly.
And what is with these track pads being moved so far to the left? If I had my way, it'd be on the right, or at least in the middle.
The reason the trackpad is located to the left is because this laptop introduced a dedicated number pad. The trackpad is therefore in the middle of the actual keyboard.
Trackpad is over there b/c its centered under QWERTY part of the keyboard (like a normal notebook). Most widescreen notebooks use that layout as its more natural, although it looks odd at first.
looks really great, if you like your eyes to bleed.
This thing is ugly as f!ck, but if 2 8700Ms can be put on a single (MXM?) card, why the hell could Apple do that for the iMac?!? I want my gaming Mac goddammit!!!!
Don't hold your breath.
You should have noticed by now that gaming isn't exactly Apple's strong suit.
+1 for don't hold your breath.
F U G L Y
Uh... WTF? A USB Ethernet dongle? is wired ethernet turning into a legacy port???
Hmm, I didn't pay any attention to that at first.. maybe it's just an option for people who want to use dual ethernet? Doesn't make any sense not to have at least one built in ethernet port.
Also, I really hope they plan on having more than one paint option on this thing.. I think it would look so much better if it was just flat black or even black (instead of that greenish brown) with the white camo look...
Yup. It has a built in ethernet port still.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/12/new-dell-xps-m1730-pics-pop-up/
if you're going to have a secondary lcd, you may as well use sideshow, or if you can't, make it look halfway decent.
It's about time they added a number pad! So many laptops opt to have blank space instead of putting it to good use. The track pad should center around the screen though, not the QWERTY key layout. I guess they are just being overly sensitive to lefties?
The extra LCD looks like a Logitech G15 rip off. In fact, the entire feature looks like it was included as an after thought. From a gamer's perspective, it is too far away from the user's line of sight and probably requires you to bend over to see it.
This laptop makes me want to rip out my eyes and shove them up a skunk's ass.
Is it me or is Dell making uglier laptops as the days go by? No wonder Jobs dissed them with that picture in his keynote from the apple event. Atleast the inside is nice lol.
It is fugly but the specs are really good. hopefully the marble case and red light will be changed. Hopefully.
The CPU meter is worthless because this is a dual core machine. One meter line can only display one core.
It will show the total load, if core0 was 30% and core1 80%, it would say 55%.
I must say it would be a thousand times cooler if it was a dual core meter
I guess the "Intel Inside" and "Windows" stickers are missing from the palm rest because neither Intel nor Microsoft wants to be associated with anything that ugly.
The sound you hear is Steve Jobs laughing his ass off.
Does it come with UWB(Ultra-WideBand) for Wireless USB?
Previous news in engadget said Dell 1720 and Thinkpad T61/p do have UWB(Wireless USB).
http://blog.mobile01.com/merlin/article/981
http://blog.mobile01.com/merlin/article/983
I think the m1730 can have even more LEDS shoved in ,
just look at all this unused space on the plamrest and underside .
Buy it for the holiday season and it will dub as a X-mas tree decoration .
Someone should tell this to the 12 yrs. old that designed it .
Wow, a backlit keyboard! Whoda thunk it? (Besides Apple). Now if more PC manufacturers will get their collective heads out of their collective butts, maybe we'll see this as a standard feature.
That being said, this is the ugliest laptop known to man. Dell has become reeeeeal good at that over the last several years.
Thanks Dell, for seeing to it that you have absolutely NO one with any design sensibilities making decisions. Doh!
What is most frustrating is that the M1330 and to a lesser extent the new Inspiron notebooks show they DO care about design and can in fact create pretty notebooks.
The XPS design is likely the result of a combination of things:
1) they wanted to get something out for the holidays and couldn't wait for the 'optimal' design
2) parts shortages i.e. no black-lit keyboard supplier (only white backlit keys)
3) an attempt to be "edgy" that might have backfired
4) ivory-tower-ism
5) malicious / incompetant focus group (a la Homer's car design)
6) maybe it really DOES look better in person. A big, steaming, heaping pile of better.
It had better!
Well it isn't so bad, it actually looks quite decent here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/Ageia-laptop.jpg
If it looks like that, I want one. They just need to make that keyboard black. Why would it be silver when nothing else on the laptop is silver? My M1710 makes sense to have a silver keyboard, but it took Dell more than a year to get one that was silver instead of flat grey. We'll see what they end up doing. For all the Dell hate on here, I for one trust that they are moving in an overall positive direction with their laptop design.
Wow that last pic does looks pretty damn snazzy. I need a new PC with DX10 in time for Crysis and just other things I want to do that my crappy thinkpad can't do right now.
My lord DELL WHERE IS THIS LAPTOP?!
So I thought today was the day, but no laptop.
If you Google it, though, an ad for Dell comes up referencing the http://www.dell.com/Beast
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=m1730&btnG=Google+Search)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=161972
On or before Wednesday Midnight, if its not up then, then the other thing I've heard is true which is we have to wait till the last week of September. Companies with home PC agreement can order it starting today, private persons have to wait until the last week of September. Shipment is expected to be week 44. That the last week of October.
It doesn't look that ugly in these pictures:
http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff149/Registered_2007/
Cool. Check out this video - looks like they show more of the system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzahumHOnSo