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Dell XPS M170

A brilliantly designed laptop, the XPS M170 is almost indistinguishable from Inspiron XPS Gen 2. It has suave silver covering with snap-on lids. The adjoining black spaces have six grills which are lit up with LED lights. You can make use of 16 varied lighting colours for making the device look dynamic courtesy Dell's Quickset interface.

Dell’s XPS M170 is more than just a gaming device. In fact, it’s a proof of Dell’s latest campaign that is targeted at excellent & luxurious devices providing complete entertainment.

Looking at the features included, this 8.6 pound product encloses a good 17-inch widescreen display which is especially comfortable for movie watchers. However, it does leave you with a few gripes. The mouse keys are a bit too deafening for comfort. Volume controls and DVD playback located on the frontage are helpful with the Media Center Operating System.

As mentioned in the beginning, this is more than just a gaming device. But still, it has to be said that the gaming features of this Dell offering are exceptionally good; this courtesy of the nVidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX (256MB) graphics, 3DMark 2005, Doom 3 and SYSmark 2004 SE. Thanks to nVidia, MobileMark battery also does reasonably well running for 2 and a half hours.

You will also be able to locate an external USB TV tuner. Additionally, you can purchase a Hauppauge Tuner which is excellent in the Media Center Edition and hence it would have been a lot better if it came incorporated with the product itself.

Even so, Dell does a good job by providing enough number for USB ports. Burning DVDs is done via the DVD±RW while a DVI-D port allows you to you hook up to digital displays.

XPS M170 makes use of the Intel Pentium M 770 processor which has a speed of 2.13 GHz.

Memory features comprise 1024 MB RAM and 100 GB hard drive capacity.

Dell’s speakers are amazingly good and the sub woofer at the bottom isn’t bad either.

Apart from excellent gaming results, XPS M170 also delivers positive results with images, music, and videos.

Security features are advanced thanks to the 15-month subscription to McAfee Security Center, much superior to measly 30- to 90-day trial offers.

With excellent gaming, multimedia features plus an improved security suite, Dell XPS M170 impresses big time.