Is Dell XPS M1530 a good Laptop?

[Khushal]

I am going to use the Dell XPS M1530 for school as well as gaming. For this do i need bluetooth & wireless N card? i am getting it for 1630 at a student discount. What do you guys recommend?

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7500 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache)

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition

LCD AND CAMERA High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD(1440x900) & 2MP Camera

MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)

HARD DRIVE Size: 320GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive

INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE Slot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write)

VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT

WIRELESS CARDS Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card

BLUETOOTH AND WIRELESS USB Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)

BATTERY OPTIONS 56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition

FINGERPRINT SCANNER Finger Print Reader XPS M1530

My Software & Accessories

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 - Word, Excel + PowerPoint

ADOBE Adobe Photoshop + Premiere Elements -Free

My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE Get $70 Gift Card with 4 Yr Ltd Warranty and At-Home Service

ACCIDENT AND THEFT PROTECTION Add Accidental Damage and LoJack Theft Protection to 4Yr Warr.

DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP DataSafe Online Backup 20GB for 1 year

[Allan.d]

Home premium would be a bad idea if you want to join the comp to domain. And for bluetooth, you can use to connect many small or wireless devices like mobile, mouse, keyboard, etc. I would also reccomend you to buy the 802.11g adapter rather than going for 802.11n adapter.

[Samra]

i second that cause home premium can be used for networking like windows xp. Also N cards has more range so it dosent means that if it is not used widely so you should not buy it.