Well, I had the XPS 17 for a few weeks, however I must say good bye to a very nice performing laptop.
Why am I returning it? Well here are few reasons:
1) Being a gamer, I wanted something nice, fast, but cheap. The XPS 17 fit the bill nicely, so I tried it. It played well, but when it came to FPS, I felt it was lacking. Granted there are ways to overclock it, but stock wise IMHO it didn’t do well.
2) I didn’t like the screen too much. Granted you will have different opinions all over, but to me I felt like it was a bit washed out. I possibly could of corrected it via a ICC profile, but I didn’t have experience making them nor could I find any for the 3D screen at the time.
So there are my reasons. The main reason, for gaming, was the biggest overall reason.
Other than that, it was solid built laptop and it would work well for many people. However, sadly, it wasn’t for me.
how was the battery life with a 9 cell ,,,on med. brightnesss…but wid wireless on !??
how was it lacking in fps what do you mean
Lacking in FPS – frames per second. Meaning for high-end games on high settings, it would not play fluidly.
To be honest, I didn’t really test out the battery life that much. However from what I read – depending on what model you buy (supports optimus or not) it should be pretty good.
Which game did u try? What was the setting?