The XPS Gen 2 from Dell is an exquisite gaming machine loaded to the gills with features that stand to redefine gaming on a mobile platform. Based on Intel's Centrino platform, it incorporates the latest avatar of this mobile platform, known as Sonoma.
Armed with a top of the line Pentium M 2.13 GHz processor with a 533 MHz front side bus and 2 MB of cache memory, it has enough juice to rock your games. 512 megs of DDR 2 memory comes as standard which can be further upgraded to 2 GB for blisteringfast game loading speeds. To make gaming characters come alive, the Gen 2 incorporates nVidia's best in class GeForce Go 6800 Ultra PCI Express graphics core.
All the action can be viewed on the crystal clear 17 inch display that Dell is renowned for. Encased in silver and grey plastic, this second generation XPS laptop has much better visual appeal. To liven up the gaming experience, Dell has introduced colourful lights on the top lid, air vents and speaker vents. You can assign up to sixteen different colours to these lights!
It's not all looks, though. Ergonomics, too, is spot on; the keyboard is sufficiently large, with a good amount of real estate on which to rest your Palms.
The XPS Gen 2, being a desktop replacement, does not fall short in
offering the numerous ports or connectors that a desktop PC offers. In all,
there are six USB ports, a FireWire port, DVI and VGA connectors for
connecting an external display, and an S Video connector for hooking it to
a TV. For online gaming, the XPS comes with an Ethernet port and offers
wireless connectivity via the inbuilt Wi Fi 802.11b/g adapter. Two unique
features are the Secure Digital card reader and a PCIe card slot. If you're an
avid gamer looking for a portable gaming solution, this is a godsend. But if
you want to lay your hands on this baby, you'd better start bugging your
cousin in the US, as Dell is not
offering this in India yet.
Priced just short of Rs 1.5 lakh, the XPS
Gen 2 is the ultimate gaming laptop available.
