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Over the past decade new end user computing technologies have progressively slowed. Their have been fewer and fewer increases in CPU Ghz and increases in RAM that only matched the increase in it’s requirements by modern software applications. The only major improvement in technology has been the move to multiple (’dual’, ‘quad’) core CPUs. Realistically though most of the average end user applications do not take advantage or require continuous multi processing.

In a move that has completely shocked the industry Dell has released it’s new 13inch laptop XPS M1330.

What makes it so special?

Solid State Hard Drive

The XPS M1330 is the first laptop to offer the new Solid State hard drive technology. Solid State is a hard drive where the storage is stored on flash memory rather than a mechanical device. Solid State hard drives are much much faster in every way than traditional hard drives. As the hard drive is the root cause of slowness in almost every application a performance benefit here will be seen in almost every part of computer useage… when starting the computer, starting applications and running multiple applications at the same time (the page file is faster to access). Not only the above but the drive is also more shock resistant than traditional mechanical drives. Their is a great article on the specifics improvements of the Solid State hard drive here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_state_disk

LED display

The XPS M1330 is also one of the first laptops to offer a LED display. Over the last decade every laptop has had a TFT display. What is the benefit of this new type of display? It’s thinner and brighter than the traditional TFT displays which means you need less power to get the same level of brightness.

Centrino Pro CPU

The XPS M1330 is also one of the first laptops to sport the new Centrino Pro CPU/chipset. This is the successor to the current Core 2 Duo. The Centrino Pro has a large cache, faster Front Side Bus and more instructions than it’s predecessor. In english? It’s faster.

More of everything

In addition to the above technology breakthroughs the XPS M1330 also sports 4gig of Ram and Wirless N networking.

So what’s the end product like?

With massive improvements in power saving and component size the Dell XPS M1330 weighs only 1.7kg and is the thinnest, lightest and fastest in it’s class. Far far faster than the Mac Book Pro or any other currently available laptop.

What is the community’s response to the new laptop?

For one of the first times in the history of a new product release the Dell XPS M1330 has received rave reviews from every review site on the net. Just search for “Dell xps m1330 reviews”. The only negative feedback I found was that their was a 2 month wait on the laptop due to the ridiculous amounts of back orders!!

Basically BUY THIS LAPTOP!!