New Dell Vostro V131

My Macbook Pro 2010 13" with C2D and Nvidia 320M gives me decent Super SS4 AE gameplay. I have heard that HD 3000's performance is little less than 320M, so I cannot recommend you getting it.

BTW, I am still waiting for PCMark Vantage score for Intel 857 celeron.

 

Thanks for the answer, kdskamal.

Another question... I will need to install Ubuntu in V131 but Ubuntu on Dell Vostro V131 | Ubuntu says:

Is it gonna fix?

 

320m vs HD 3000

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

I'm not going to run PCMark vantage on my clean installed machine. Sorry.

 

why is this notebook not available in other sellers?

 

I got my highest v131 model (i5-2410M) today. (For those who wonder how long it takes, I ordered on 8/16, received on 8/30, so it took 2 weeks).

I have been using it for a while, and here is few things I noticed:

Display: I was pretty surprised by its display quality (I wasn't expecting much from its display). Color looks vibrant enough, and brightness is just right for me (I don't use it outdoors). Certainly, it is not a bad display at all, and considering it is a business model, I would say it is a very good display for its category. My display panel was from LG Philips (LGD02EC).

Keyboard: I love it. It is really pleasant to type on. There is some flex if you press it hard, but it doesn't bother me at all.

Touchpad: Pretty decent, although there is one glitch when you do 2 finger scrolling: if you lift your finger up quickly while scrolling, it keeps scrolling (like coasting), so you have to click the touchpad again in order to stop it. So I decided to remove dell touchpad driver, and installed latest synaptics driver. Now, the glitch is gone, but two finger scrolling doesn't really work well (registers only about 2/3 of time) as before. Since I don't really care about two finger scrolling, I use one finger scrolling with synaptics driver (one finger scrolling is much better with synaptics driver), and everything works perfectly fine.

Temp/Fan: Unit stays around 46~49C when idle, and stays around 50~55C when web surfing. Fan seems to turn on very frequently and run at at 3000 rpm. (it seems to trigger at above 50C, which means it will turn on almost all the time unless you stay completely idle). However, the fan noise is not high-pitched like sony SA series, and it is not that disturbing (seriously, sony SA series drove me nuts because the fan noise sounded exactly like jet planes, and I returned it immediately). Still, I expected it to be silent when I was just web surfing, so this is the only area which let me down, but not a dealbreaker for me. Fan seems to be running either 0 rpm, or 3000rpmish (nothing in-between), so it was kind of weird (maybe bios fix later?).

Others: battery sticking out doesn't bother me at all. Speaker sounds decent (much better than sony SA). Keyboard backlight is a good option (you can turn it off using function keys).

Overall, I am very satisfied with it except fan noise. I wasn't expecting a fan running constantly, but fan noise is much gentler, so I can live with it unlike sony SA I returned. I am planning to install a SSD, and do a clean install later (fewer running processes may improve fan noise issue... right now 91 processes ), so I will probably write follow-up later (possibly with battery life testing).

 

i had a 2010 11.6" macbook air, and then a dell vostro with i3 2310m, the mac with the 320m actually played portal 2 a little smoother than the i3/hd3000.
This is even despite the mac os and cpu handicap.

 

Just to chime in on this, I never had this issue with my M4 in my Vostro V131 OR in my desktop machine. Works great booting. Just upgraded to latest 009 bios and its rock solid, boot times dropped 2 seconds, not much of a change, boots 12-3 seconds. Impressive if you ask me!

 

Good for you s1xth... others on the forum have.

Either way, as you mentioned, there's a fix:
AnandTech - The Crucial m4 SSD Update: Faster with FW0009

"Improvement for intermittent failures in cold boot up related to some specific host systems."

Intermittent? According to the forum AND my Elitebook it's EVERY single boot from off that causes the black screen of nothing'nuss.

I just love how they worded that little bit there.

Glad they've fixed the problem... or have they... 'Improvement'?

 

Thanks to both you guys, that was useful. Now I have another question, similar to Difort: I would like the v131 to run on the latest version of Kubuntu. At the moments I find very few experiences of people using ubuntu or any linux distribution on the v131. Perhaps someone can post some relevant info here?

 

Wow, 12-13 second boot time. Even faster than when I really went to town with tweaking the following machines

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...oks/596853-hp-5330m-thoughts-tweaks-more.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...e-applicable-other-probook-eliteb-models.html

A video would be most welcome of your machine booting in 12/13 seconds to desktop from off