Dell's Craziest Gaming Laptop From 2007: XPS M1730 

I have the one with the SLI 9800M GTX and the X9000. It is a beast. Even with the old school dual core, it will power through Skyrim (as an example) on medium to high settings all day long 50-60fps. I love it. It is a substantial upgrade from the M1710 it replaced (also a beast for its time) and is still usable today. I have 7 on mine and it will run 10. Realistically, it would make a very good modern laptop with Linux so you'd have all the security and plenty of resources left to run everything else. Can't say I will ever get rid of mine.

With that I know now, I'm mind blow that I spent AUD$5000 on a max spec version in 2009 just to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. Many fond memories at LAN parties, still laugh at peoples reactions and hater talk when I arrived with a Dell laptop while everyone else has a desktop - little did they know how much of a sleeper it was until the lights turned on and the fan started to sound like a turbo induction system on a car! hahaha Sadly the GPU died in 2014 and a fix wasn't possible. Rest in peace legend, you worked hard almost every day to energize my love for videogames

Yo Matt I came from Michael's video! Keep up the good work, man!

Nice video man! I came across this looking for the laptop they used in the movie Grandma's boy

great video! looking forward to future vids

I had this when I was fifteen, amazing laptop! I had the 8800M GTX version, but with the slower 2.4GHz CPU option

I bought the most basic version of this machine in 2008. I still have it and it works, but it looks like the graphics card is going bad as lines through the display are constant. Back then when you bought a machine like this you got leather-like bound manuals and some nice presentation- not like the Costco computers of today where you get a box with some foam and a two page quick start guide.

I'm fairly sure you have a dual 8700GT but with one of them having died due to how poor quality they were manufactured! It was a really common problem back then.

This is a cool PC even now

Great video! You deserve way more subscribers than you currently have :D

i wish laptops were still like this .

I got a Dell XPS M2010 and I have a Studio 17. I have a ton of laptops (about 33) and I review them on RU-vid. I plan on getting the m1730, but I’m fucking broke so I can’t. Nice video, and I hope we both get more subscribers!

I have one of the these, it's the one with red clear plastic pieces on the back, I was running the version of vista that I reinstalled on it, and now when it turns on the screen doesn't work. If I run a display test it works, but when I ran a different test (I forgot the name of the test), it gives me an error indicator that means the display failed to initialize during startup. What factors could play a role in the failure of the display initializing? For extra information, the computer has a Nvidia graphics card in it (forgot which one).

Excelente vídeo! Yo tengo una desde el año 2013. Tiene la nvidia: 8700 GT 256 me SLI y el Core Duo Extreme. Saludos desde México.

can the windows OS be upgraded to windows 11? Thanks

i have a red one..works with vista and W10. i love the XPS. Also have m1710 and a massive tower xps 730

What is the best cpu and the graphics card for this unit .. ?? ..

Awesome Machine!

Mines the one with the 9700 non extreme and SLI 9800m's it gets so hot lol

Still have one of these lying around.. wondering if anyone would wanna buy it as a collection item lol

Ive almost got a similar laptop but a couple generations newer - Intel i7 980x Extreme and GTX 480M in SLI and 17inch. Both insane in their times!

I would use frap instead of msi afterburner will be a lot lighter of a program and will run on all older hw practically.

I'm pretty sure I used to use this laptop before the graphics card got fried twice

I had a crazy clevo laptop whit socket 775 xD from 2007 whit quad core...

I want this laptop, its so cool also cool vid

Aún tengo la mía que es de las ediciones de World of Warcraft

These are quit the Beast! It's fat and chunky, kinda hard to lug around especially with the power supply "brick". I have Windows 10 on mine and unfortunately most of the drivers aren't available for it anymore. If anyone has any ideas on mods to the drivers (rgb, the second display..etc) please let me know.

still beats most laptops in 2023

u can sale this laptop ?

Anyone have any luck with a quad core cpu on this baby!

i subbed to u becuz of michael mjd

Can it run crysis?

Got two of these cute little things :)

believe me this pc is much faster than my dell inspirion 15 8gigs of ram

its true crazy monster!!!

But can it run Crysis?

but does it have a subwoofer?

İTS look like sheldon's computer

I have a red one and it sucks