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Are you looking for a light weight and ultra-thin, high performance laptop? Then you ought to try the new DELL XPS 14z series laptops. Dell boasts on the super sleek design which is in line with the apple’s small screen MacBook pro.

Design:
The moment you look at the 14z notebooks, you will notice an impressive change in the design from older dell laptops. Although the screen size is just 14 inches, the trim around the screen borders and the HD feature makes you feel you have not compromised on the excellent visual treat for convenience.

Technical specification:
The 14z machines come with 2nd gen Intel core processors with i5 and i7 variants. It supports up to 8GB DDR3 memory for high performance computing. For all those gamers, there is good news and bad news. The NVIDIA GeForce 520M 1GB with optimus video card is supported as an upgrade from the Intel HD graphics 3000. Well this was the good and the bad news is, the 3D raw channel manipulation (CHOP’s) is not that good with the above card. The 8-cell battery prismatic battery life ensures long standby time of up to 4 hours in optimal conditions.

Cons:
· Although the notebook comes with better keyboard design, the overall frame is not very solid and gives you a plastic handling experience. The touch-pad that supports all multi-touch patterns but it is a bit oversensitive sometimes.

· The resolution of the screen (1366 x 768) could have been better as the competing models like mac book pro (1440 x 900) and sony vaio 13.3 inch laptops (1600 x 900) come with better pixel configurations.

· There are only two USB ports.

Comment:
The Dell xps 14z laptops has to offer more pleasure than problems.

The Dell Studio XPS 16 is built with a nice design over all. Its keyboard is also easy to use. The performance is quite powerful.  Intel Core Duo p8600 offers great performance in video encoding as well as the 4GB of DDR3 system RAM is enough to meet most needs. The combination of the price and its capability makes this one of the best 16-inch laptops currently.

Dell XPS M1530 is one of the best-looking laptops currently. Good keyboard and easy to type on. Dell also includes a Media Center remote control that fits neatly into the ExpressCard slot on the side of the notebook. The 2.20GHz Core 2 Duo processor and Nvidia 8600M GT 256MB card will satisfy most gamers, powerful performance.

Best Rank Recorded - No.5

Overall Highest Rating By - 9.0

Highest Rating By Users - 9.1