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XPS 17…sad good bye

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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.

Car, dell

Too many issues

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I know I haven’t been blogging that much :/ I just been so bust with quite a few things. First thing is I added another HD to my NAS, which is normally easy, but I ran out of ports on the MB for SATA, so now I have either get another motherboard, which is not the best solution, or just get a add-on card. I plan to get the add-on card, however I am trying to figure out if I should go with a software solution, or a hardware.

Secondly, my small dell laptop I had was starting to over heat on me. It was clean as a whistle, however it was just hitting around 70C on both cores. Granted it was a small laptop, but still – that isn’t a good temp. So I called Dell and they sent someone to fix the laptop. So the tech comes over for the repair and after the install I noticed both cores are doing a bit better, however now I notice that the wireless switch is stuck. To make a long story short, the wireless switch was broken by the tech who put in a new motherboard. So they sent another motherboard, but it was DOA, so they decided to send out another system! It was upgraded in a few ways – processor, memory, and SSD drive, however I was having some wireless issues. So I proceed to open up the back wireless cover to take a look. This is what I saw:

I then had no choice but to send back the laptop to the Dell depot to get repaired. Around a week later the laptop came back, but now it has a hairline scratch on the back LCD cover. So then I call and get that part from Dell and I repair it on my own.

The last thing that happened was the fact I traded in my modded high HP car for a more economy car. Granted I will miss it, but getting around 28 MPG+ on the highway is awesome instead of 19 or so 🙂

So hopefully that is it for a while 🙂