Dell XPS M1730 Battery - High Capacity Li-ion 9 Cells Replacement

High Capacity (11.1V 6600mAh) Replacement Li-ion DELL XPS M1730 Battery for DELL XPS M1730 Laptop and notebook. We provide the best Dell M1730 laptop battery.

Battery Voltage: 11.1V
Capacity: 6600mAh

Dell XPS M1730 and Dell M1730 Battery

The XPS M1730 is Dell's new 17-inch high-performance gaming notebook, the replacement for the aging M1710. It is based on the latest Intel Santa Rosa platform and features cutting-edge Nvidia GeForce SLI graphics.

Dell goes full-throttle with its latest XPS notebook, the M1730, which packs an Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor, dual Nvidia graphics processors in an SLI configuration, and Ageia's PhysX controller, which theoretically makes games look more realistic than before. Although the whole experience is still a work in progress, at $3,824, the XPS M1730 is ready for whatever you can throw at it, and then some.

Battery

The Dell XPS M1730 battery serves as more of an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) than anything else. Running with the screen brightness at full while surfing on Verizon wireless WAN, I measured 56 minutes of life. With the screen dimmed and the wireless turned off, battery life improved by about 20 minutes. Consider for a moment how much power this notebook consumes; Dell's regular Inspiron 17-inch notebook achieves almost 3 and a half hours of life with the same battery. With dual hard drives, dual video cards, and an Extreme processor, it is no wonder that the M1730 cannot stay unplugged for long. Anyone buying this notebook is probably not concerned with battery life so I do not view it as a con.

The M1730 didn't offer any surprises on our DVD battery-drain test. Like other mammoth, powerful, and hot-running gaming notebooks we've tested, this system's nine-cell battery did not last long off the plug—just 1 hour and 19 minutes. However, we don't really consider this a drawback; this notebook is more or less designed to be used while plugged in. For those rare times you use the system while off the outlet, a useful gauge on the laptop's base tells you the charge status and health of your battery.

Power Adapter

There are few notebooks that get a mini-review of their power adapter, but the M1730 is one of those special notebooks. Most will be shocked by the sheer size of this brick. It is so large because it needs to provide over 200 watts of power; the standard notebook power adapter provides 65 or 90 watts. The M1730's adapter weighs several pounds by itself. Its power cord is about twice as thick as the standard Dell power cord. I liked the blue power LED Dell put into the brick; most of the time they are green.