The XPS M1710 is very good for gamers, but not just for them. It has some good features which are not present in too many other laptops.

It measures 15.5 inches wide, 11.3 inches deep, and 1.6 inches thick and it weighs 8.1 pounds. It’s not small, but the 17-inch LCD wide-screen display makes up for that. It has a 1,900×1,200 native resolution. The design is not too much, it’s classy with silver-and-white, it looks modern, but the keyboard is small; it delivers crisp and rich sound, with the internal subwoofer and the speakers.

The inputs and outputs include FireWire, six USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone jacks, S-Video, VGA, and DVI outputs, and an Express Card slot and also, another thing is a 5-in-1 media card reader. The performance is also good. It has a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS graphics, a DVD burner, and a 120GB 5400rpm hard drive. That will probably be more than what is needed for gaming. It may not be so fast for multitasking, encoding tests and things like that, but the downside is not too large.

The battery life is 2 hours and 28 and the service is very good. It includes USB TV tuner and Media Center remote but it doesn’t have next-gen optical drive. Price is $1099.00.