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[dippydave]

Got a trial of a s/h but nicely refurbished Dell XPS M170 laptop for the bank holiday weekend to see if it'll run my most used software.

It's a 2.26GHz Pentium M with only 1GB of ram and a small but rapid 80GB /7200rpm hard drive. Thing i'm most interested in is the separate 256MB nvidia 7800GTX graphics card! the 17inch monitor's tidy too

any one had any experience with these?

I'm wondering whether to save my pennies and get a new/newer one!

[Bacon Butty Man]

cracking laptop btw, its a top machine, what the price tag on it. who has refurbished it and what was it refurbished with.

[Gaffers]

I have to agree with BBM, cracking machine and it wouldent cost too much to bang in a bigger HDD and more RAM either  

[dippydave]

thanks for the  

I've got to check what's been refurbished..... i'll keep you posted! think it may be something to do with the graphics but not sure.

i've done a search through dell via the service tag and found it was originally sold to germany! it's just over two years old so still got some service warranty left.  

the hard drive has already been 'upgraded' from its original 5400rpm 100GB one. (so now faster but smaller!).
I've searched ebuyer and overclockers and they only seem to have 5400rpm ide drives. But only £42 for a 160gig and £63 for a 250 one i may swap again! I'll work out what storage needs i'll have (Want dual boot as well to keep the play half seperate from the work half!)

I do already have 2GB 533 ram in my D610 (waste of money, shouldve stuck to 2x512) so may just swap it over. or spend a whopping.... £28 for 2Gb of 667 ram! Man am I gutted i paid well over a ton for the 533 many moons ago!

jeez i get nerdy sometimes.

i'll find out what's been done specifically!! oh and i think he wants about £4-500 for it.

[Ken T]

Don't forget it uses Dell's special power connector. This means when it breaks, you can't pick up a standard 19V PSU, Oh No, it has to be a real Dell PSU, that uses the stupid Dell 3 terminal connector, and it will tells you if it doesn't like the PSU, and may decide not to charge the battery, or run at full speed. We had a Dell in a few weeks ago, that had the power connector replaced. Dell, in their infinite wisdom, put the communication terminal connection thro a plated thro hole, that is bound to get damaged with normal wear and tear, so the contact gets broken, and the laptop thinks its not a geniune psu connected, so it will not charge the battery etc. A customer's laptop is effectively scrap because of this. Unfortunately HP professsional laptops are also starting to use these damn power connectors.

Apart from that, they look pretty.

Ken