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#Dell xps m1330 bios install#
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#Dell xps m1330 bios portable#

#Dell xps m1330 bios portable#

This is an outstanding machine for people like me who think laptops were meant to be portable first and foremost. But after being one of the fortunate few to receive their M1330s, I have to agree with the glowing reviews. I've only had the machine since Tuesday, so I'm not really in a position to provide a comprehensive review.

#Dell xps m1330 bios drivers#

Beware, though, because 64-bit drivers aren't available for the video card yet.

Everything else is included in the default set of Vista drivers.

#Dell xps m1330 bios install#

The only drivers you'll need for a clean 32-bit Vista install are video, sound, and wired network- all available from the Dell XPS M1330 driver download page. UPDATE: it's a better idea to install the proper AHCI driver during the Vista install process, because that's the only time you can make the switch! Copy the "Intel SATA driver" to a USB flash drive, and specify alternate driver during the drive selection phase. According to the BIOS warning, this precludes the use of Intel's Robson onboard Flash memory cache, but with a solid state hard drive in play I don't think that's much of a loss. I found that switching the hard drive interface from AHCI back to standard fixed that problem. Way to go, Dell.Īfter formatting and beginning a clean install of Vista, I ran into a little problem where the machine would bluescreen immediately on startup after the install. Nothing like booting up a system with an already-limited 32 GB storage device and finding you only have 16 GB of disk space available. This is a particularly egregious problem on the 32 GB solid state hard drive, because it had a 10 GB "restore" partition, and a 6 GB "media direct" partition pre-installed from the factory. It's a sad fact of life in the PC ecosystem, but if you want a machine clean of bloatware and useless, paid-endorsement installed craplets (including Google Desktop, I might add), you have to raze it to the ground yourself immediately after unboxing it. Of course, the first thing I did after getting the machine was format the hard drive. The resulting Windows Experience benchmark scores are almost the same for both laptops, too.

It's more of a sidegrade than a pure upgrade. The display sizes are almost the same, both offer 2.0 GHz dual-core CPUs, and the M1330 is even a downgrade in one area: I ordered it with a hard drive that's less than half the size of the W3J.

#Dell xps m1330 bios upgrade#

It's strange, in a way, because the M1330 isn't much of an upgrade from the W3J in terms of absolute hardware specifications. Otherwise, this ultraportable should easily sit at the top of any laptop shopping list. My only peeve is that the weight can get up there with the nine-cell battery. The Dell XPS M1330 is a monumental step in that it takes the best things from other great ultraportables and combines them into a single entity. It's been a while since Dell delivered a laptop that possessed so many awe-inspiring features. It's not often you see the jaded PC Magazine reviews dish out this kind of praise:

Plus there are all these rave reviews of the M1330 coming in from PC Magazine, Notebook Review, and CNET.

and it has ridiculously good design for a Dell.

and it offers a non-integrated graphics option, which is incredibly rare for an ultralight.

it offers the required LED display and SSD drive options.

I've been eyeing laptops with LED displays and solid-state hard drives for a while now, long before I ever saw the Dell M1330. That's why I recently purchased a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. Although I wasn't unhappy with my ASUS W3J laptop, which I've owned for a little over a year now, it was never quite the ultraportable to match my beloved, dearly departed three pound Dell Inspiron 300M.