Introduction & Overview: Even though it’s been awhile since Dell have launched their new series XPS M1330 notebook. It was launched on 26^th June 2007, since than it’s been a remarkable success for DELL with this new notebook launch. Even though Dell never had a public image in notebooks segments for producing stylish sleek notebooks, because their major concerns always been on productivity and performance, but they have proved everybody wrong with New Sleek and stylish XPS notebooks series. DELL XPS M1330 notebooks is really giving tough competition to their old rivals which are Sony, HP and apple, as it’s the thinnest 13 inches notebook available in the market.

Looks, Design, Build and Appearance: As its name gives you better idea, yes DELL XPS M1330 is built with 13 inch wide screen display. Its build is the major factor for its success over the year, as it is thin, sleek and really light weight notebook. To be really precise its weight is even less than 4 lbs. it is 0.9 inches thick, with LED backlit display, its small compact look and style makes it a perfect notebook for those who likes to carry their notebooks with them, everywhere they go.  I must say when we talk about XPS M330’s design, it is absolutely stunning, and it is available in 3 different colors. All the media buttons on the edges are touch sensitive, and when they are touched or pressed they get a slow glowing backlight which dissolves within a second. The Keyboard is silver colored which suits perfectly to the outer body color and gives is a decent professional look. Now let’s move on the newly added Hinge look, it is really unique. On the top edge on the display screen, its 2.0 Megapixel Web Camera is located.

Screen & Speakers: DELL XPS M1330 is equipped with 13 inch wide display screen with WXGA standard feature. Its picture quality is quite incredible as its glossy display screen is quite able to produce good quality Video and image output. While testing it with HD movie prints, I was quite pleased with the results and performance. Now moving on the speakers and sound quality, and I must say I was impressed during its test, its speakers are placed just on top of the keyboard, near to media buttons. Its sounds system is not that loud, but when quality matters, it’s quite good enough with size f the notebook. On the other way it has Microphone and headphone jack, which can be used to even better audio and sound quality with ear buds.

Keyboard & touchpad specification: Keyboards is well designed as I have described earlier, it is grey colored and keys are well managed and have proper spaces between each other for convenient and fast typing. So I think there isn’t much to talk about it, it’s simply perfectly designed. Talking about touchpad, well its smooth and easy to navigate with curser, it has vertical and horizontal scroll which is quite smooth and easy o work with. But still I must say that you guys should go for Bluetooth mouse or USB Mouse for proper usages.

Camera: XPS M1330 is equipped with VGA web Camera with the capacity of 2 megapixels. Its colors, contrast and brightness features are quite good. Its camera is quite good enough for usually webcam chats and minimal notebook Photo captures. During my test I found images and pictures I captured with its camera were quite good, and video recording was good as well.

Battery: Yes its battery is the most impressive feature I found in it, it has 9-cell battery which is capable for 4 hours and 50 minutes battery life. So it’s quite a good for those use notebooks while traveling. When I was testing its battery life while watching HD Movies it ended till nearly 3 hours, which is quite impressive as well. So I think it’s a power pack notebook with great performance, looks and battery life.

Performance and Productivity: Well we have described every single aspect and feature of this incredible notebook has. I must say that XPS M1330 is an incredibly built notebook with style, sleek looks, Performance and productivity at the same time. It’s capable for every possible performance that a usual notebook should have. With Intel core 2 duo T7300 processor [2.0Ghz] and 3 GB of RAM it’s a perfect notebook. And additionally it has Nvidia Geforce Go 8400M GS graphic card which is just perfect for high end graphics, gaming and cutting edge 3d technology for Windows Aero user interface.  I purchased this notebook for its great look, thin structure and high end performance, and believe me my every dime spent on it worth it perfectly. It really delivers, with great looks and performances.

DELL XPS M1330 Configuration and details:

• 13.3-inch WXGA screen with LED backlight
• 2GB DDR2-667 SDRAM (up to 4GB DDR2 SDRAM available)
• 160GB 5400 RPM SATA HDD (32GB SSD drive available)
• HDMI, VGA, 1394, two USB 2.0 ports, integrated media reader (MS, SD, xD), fingerprint reader
• Slot-loading dual-layer DVD±RW drive
• 128MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8400M GS
• WWAN option for Verizon
• Ethernet, 802.11a/g/n (Intel 4965), Bluetooth option
• Integrated VGA webcam
• Media Center remote located in ExpressCard slot
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• “Crimson” red paint (also available in “Tuxedo” black or “Pearl” white)
• Dimensions 12.5″ x 9.4″ x 0.87″ – 1.33″
• Weight starts at 4 pounds with 6-cell battery
• 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, Santa Rosa chipset (up to 2.4GHz available)

Pros:

• Brilliant Design with attractive built and features.
• Extremely well built outer body and inner body aspects.
• Excellent high end graphic performance
• LED backlit display is amazing
• Very Good and nicely designed keyboard.

Cons:

• 4.5 pounds with 9-cell battery

• Quickly gets warm, if you use it continuously for long hours.