I'm overall very impressed with my M1330, but if I had any issues to point out it would be it needs a larger touchpad and at least a 256MB video card for the XPS model. I mean you can get the 8400GS on the Inspiron 1420's, so other than the impressive design of the M1330 and the light weight with the 4 cell or 6 Cell battery it's not really XPS gaming material is it. It still plays a mean Doom 3 at high setting and Need for Speed Most Wanted at a pretty good rate as well. The tuxedo black shows finger prints that are hard to remove, but that's getting pretty picky. Mine has a 2 GHZ processor, 2 GB memory, LED, with NVidia discrete graphics, and after a bit of tweaking in Vista to bring the memory usage down, it's as fast as my old XP machine if not faster running Vista premium. I've really not got a lot of complaints. Maybe that CPU whine that everyone is talking about on the Dell forums could be an issue if it isn't solved by a firmware upgrade.
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I'm overall very impressed with my M1330, but if I had any issues to point out it would be it needs a larger touchpad and at least a 256MB video card for the XPS model. I mean you can get the 8400GS on the Inspiron 1420's, so other than the impressive design of the M1330 and the light weight with the 4 cell or 6 Cell battery it's not really XPS gaming material is it. It still plays a mean Doom 3 at high setting and Need for Speed Most Wanted at a pretty good rate as well. The tuxedo black shows finger prints that are hard to remove, but that's getting pretty picky. Mine has a 2 GHZ processor, 2 GB memory, LED, with NVidia discrete graphics, and after a bit of tweaking in Vista to bring the memory usage down, it's as fast as my old XP machine if not faster running Vista premium. I've really not got a lot of complaints. Maybe that CPU whine that everyone is talking about on the Dell forums could be an issue if it isn't solved by a firmware upgrade.