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The GeForce 9500M found in the Dell Studio XPS 13 (1340) is in fact a 9400M G + 9200M GS Hybrid SLI

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

So the guys at the Notebook Review forums found it: the Nvidia GeForce 9500M found in the Dell Studio XPS 13 is not a single graphics card, but two: an integrated GeForce 9400M G plus a GeForce 9200M GS with 256 MB of dedicated memory, working in a Hybrid SLI configuration. The expected performance is higher than that of the 9400M G alone and lower than a 9500M GS, so the naming seems right, but maybe the actual performance is not as high as you expected when you saw the 9500M model number.

In addition, as Hybrid SLI is only supported under Windows Vista, so users of other operating systems will only be able to use one of the cards (probably the 9400M G).

Nvidia GeForce 9500M

Source: Notebook Review forums and Dell Studio XPS 13 setup guide (go to page 52).

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Dell Studio XPS 13: almost here

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Dell Studio XPS 13Many users are waiting for an update to the Dell XPS lline, and at least the 13″ version (Studio XPS 13) is ready to launch. According to the sources, it is going to be released at CES 2009 (January 8th to 11th) and it is already at the Dell USA web site from USD 1,406, but the link does not work, so we do not know the specs for this price. You can find some pictures of the laptop at Engadget.

Dell is also preparing an ultrathin competitor to the Macbook Air, codenamed “Adamo”.

Sources: Engadget and Xataka (Spanish).

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Laptop reviews: HP Pavilion dv5t, Asus M70sa, more Toshiba Satellite and others

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Here you have the laptop review I have found during the week:

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Dell XPS M1730 with GeForce 8800M GTX SLI available

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

A few days ago Dell announced the availability of its updated gaming laptop, the famous XPS M1730, now available with two GeForce 8800M GTX cards in SLI configuration. While other vendors, such as Alienware, Rock, and so on, are offering the same card, I’m paying attention specially to Dell’s laptop, because it’s more widely available outside the US.

Dell XPS M1730

The least expensive configuration with the dual 8800M GTX costs 3399 $ with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB 7200 rpm hard drive and the usual amenities: 1920×1200 TrueLife screen, Ageia PhysX simulation card…

It’s a very expensive system, so it’s important to assess the performance you can expect from it. At the moment, the only benchmarks available are at Notebook Forums: I’d like to highlight a 10163 3DMark 06 score at 1920×1200 and 34 FPS (average) in Crysis at 1920×1200, detail level high. In addition, you can take into account the benchmarks published for a single card that are widely available in the net (the first ones, published when the card was just released, where fairly complete). A 50% increase in SLI configurations can be considered good, but it varies a lot.

I’m going to summarize here any review or benchmark I can find, so keep in touch!

Update: Extremetech publishes a complete review of the Dell XPS M1730 with GeForce 8800M GTX SLI, including benchmarks in Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, Crysis and World in Conflict.

More reviews:  AnandTech.

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Dell XPS M1730 gaming performance

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Are you looking for a gaming laptop? Are you interested on the Dell XPS M1730? Notebookreview features extensive benchmarks on this laptop of the following games: Crysis Demo, Unreal Tournament Demo, Call of Duty 4, DIRT Demo and Star Wars Battlefront II. If you cannot afford this laptop, the results are a good reference.

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