http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/ Engadget Comments for Dell's XPS M1730 first laptop with 7,200RPM 320GB disk 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/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/May 19th 2008 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
With as much as your probably already spending, $46 is chump change.]]>May 19th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
Then again, I don't know if many people buy high end XPS laptops for battery life.]]>May 19th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/May 19th 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/May 19th 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
If anyone is actually concerned about their laptop being "green", the hard drive is among the least of your worries; you should be asking why the screen is 17", why that 17" screen isn't LED backlit, why the CPU isn't a ULV 1.06Ghz, or why it doesn't run on water. As for the hard drive, the 7200RPM drives are marginally more power hungry than 5400RPMs at worst -- in fact, many of them are equally efficient.

But while we're at it, why stop at 5400RPM, anyway? Why not go down to 4200? 13.3"? Lose the discrete GPU?]]>May 19th 2008 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/I see what you did here... That was low-blow. MAgistrally executed but low-blow nonetheless...]]>May 19th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/Wha...?]]>May 19th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/May 19th 2008 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
Seagate's slow-motion video of the zero-G sensor locking down the drive as it drops: http://storageeffect.com/2007/11/29/drop-safe-notebooks/]]>May 19th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MZmmv6h5oo]]>May 19th 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
Just give us Brits the option to give this laptops the specs that are advertised on the damn site already!

FUCKING FALSE ADVERTISING!]]>May 19th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/
Do they offer RAID as well? 640GB RAID0 using 2 of these little monsters would be awesome.
In fact since its an Intel chipset, if it supports Matrix RAID you could create a 300GB RAID0 for OS and Games and then use the left over 150GB on each disk for a 150GB RAID1 Storage area for your important docs and digital camera pics and such.]]>May 19th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/dells-xps-m1730-first-laptop-with-7-200rpm-320gb-disk/May 20th 2008 4:19AM