I have a maxed out XPS M1730 with a T9600 CPU overclocked through the Bios and a Geforce 9800M GTX. This is the most you can upgrade this monster without having issues. I have been able to play both Bioshock 1 and 2 with only a few stuttering issues here and there. Great to run older games. Agree with you that battery time is a joke.
Please bear with me as I go into major storytime mode, but I had one of these bad boys in their heyday. It was mid-2008 and I had scored enough overtime to completely pay off a car I financed through a buy-here-pay-here dealership and had some cash left over. I was spending a lot of time at friends' houses and liked to game with them, but I stuck with secondhand laptops. I had bought the original Dell XPS gaming rig secondhand; it was a good system but still a bit slow and it was about as hot as a blast furnace. I sold that one and had my eyes on the somewhat more practical and much faster M1710 and was furiously bidding on a couple on Feebay, but I got outbid pretty badly. Dismayed, I checked out the local List of Craig's and was completely shocked to see someone had listed an M1730 for literally half its base price. I was concerned it was a scam, but the seller was completely cool with meeting in public and actually turned out to be a guy I went to trade school with. It needed a keyboard because his kid spilled milk on it, but after replacing it it ran pretty good. Unfortunately it was completely base spec, which meant a non-SLi 8700M and a lower-end processor. Kind of a bummer but for half price I was already far ahead. Over the next six months I went nuts and upgraded it to just about the top spec. That included an 'engineering sample' C2D X9000 and paying about as much as I bought the M1730 for the top-end 8800M SLi GPU module. It was a total beast, ran hot, and I kept the CPU overclocked to keep the GPUs from nuking(a well known failure point with Team Green in the late aughts). I had the bespoke backpack for this beast; a massive and well built backpack that I flat out loved and carried it everywhere. Friends' houses, weekends with the girlfriend(when I had one, haha), trips with family, and out in the living room. It was one of my few Nice Things(tm) at the time. Unfortunately I went through a rough patch and traded it for a desktop I didn't really want, so chalk it up to stupid decisions. I loved the backpack enough to find another one when I got a different full-sized gaming rig later on, and I somehow still have it. I'd love to have one of these beasts again, even if just for the nostalgia.
Hey, I'm getting ready to sell this thing, I need to get it out of the way. If you'd be interested shoot me an email, see my About section on my channel. It will be reasonably priced.
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I have a maxed out XPS M1730 with a T9600 CPU overclocked through the Bios and a Geforce 9800M GTX. This is the most you can upgrade this monster without having issues. I have been able to play both Bioshock 1 and 2 with only a few stuttering issues here and there. Great to run older games. Agree with you that battery time is a joke.
I have 2 9800m GTX in SLI in mine ;)
@@xouber same, love this 2007 beast
Please bear with me as I go into major storytime mode, but I had one of these bad boys in their heyday.
It was mid-2008 and I had scored enough overtime to completely pay off a car I financed through a buy-here-pay-here dealership and had some cash left over. I was spending a lot of time at friends' houses and liked to game with them, but I stuck with secondhand laptops. I had bought the original Dell XPS gaming rig secondhand; it was a good system but still a bit slow and it was about as hot as a blast furnace. I sold that one and had my eyes on the somewhat more practical and much faster M1710 and was furiously bidding on a couple on Feebay, but I got outbid pretty badly. Dismayed, I checked out the local List of Craig's and was completely shocked to see someone had listed an M1730 for literally half its base price. I was concerned it was a scam, but the seller was completely cool with meeting in public and actually turned out to be a guy I went to trade school with. It needed a keyboard because his kid spilled milk on it, but after replacing it it ran pretty good. Unfortunately it was completely base spec, which meant a non-SLi 8700M and a lower-end processor. Kind of a bummer but for half price I was already far ahead.
Over the next six months I went nuts and upgraded it to just about the top spec. That included an 'engineering sample' C2D X9000 and paying about as much as I bought the M1730 for the top-end 8800M SLi GPU module. It was a total beast, ran hot, and I kept the CPU overclocked to keep the GPUs from nuking(a well known failure point with Team Green in the late aughts). I had the bespoke backpack for this beast; a massive and well built backpack that I flat out loved and carried it everywhere. Friends' houses, weekends with the girlfriend(when I had one, haha), trips with family, and out in the living room. It was one of my few Nice Things(tm) at the time. Unfortunately I went through a rough patch and traded it for a desktop I didn't really want, so chalk it up to stupid decisions. I loved the backpack enough to find another one when I got a different full-sized gaming rig later on, and I somehow still have it. I'd love to have one of these beasts again, even if just for the nostalgia.
Hey, I'm getting ready to sell this thing, I need to get it out of the way. If you'd be interested shoot me an email, see my About section on my channel. It will be reasonably priced.
GAME ON BABY
That was an interesting video
Thanks!
epic gamer moment
Coolest video ever
Thanks!!
@@TheCRTProductions np
Haha this was brilliant man
Nice video
Still use mine today
The ending was funny and cool and painful for the laptop
I got Crisis 2 to play on mine
Man you really know hwo to make videos like nostalgic RUclips and twitter videos 😂