Dell Studio XPS 13 - 13.3in Notebook Review

more or less the same price as the newest Macbook (2.0GHz).
Only thing i like with Dell is the HDMI but not sure if that is enough to make me buy Dell.
Macbook has OSX and a sexy design (all aluminum).
If the price was about 30% lower on Dell or it offered build-in 3G modem or something to differentiate but as it is now its simply a nice laptop among many.

ps. yes of course it matters to compare. After all when you buy something you compare with other products on the market in the same segment. And i agree that Sony laptops are very nice too but at least in Sweden they are 3 time more expensive then other laptops. Even Apple is cheap compared to Sony :)

Dell service is terrible.you speak to someone in the Phillipnes whose accent is hard for a U.S. citizen to understand.And there seems to be a delay in the phone line.And you have to wait before you speak to them.They spend a lot on ads,but as little as possible on service.Phillipinos work for less$.While Apple may have its faults they do give good service.That is worth paying more for-something few if any reviewers mention.

I am currently looking at getting this notebook, and would like to know whether it is possible to run two external monitors from it, using both the VGA port and the HDMI port. Apparently the existing M1330 XPS could do this, but I haven't been able to find out anywhere if this notebook can do it.
Thanks in advance.

I had the Sony Z series and sent it back and ordered this instead... heres why:
The Z series and the SR series now have removed the dedicated Page Up/Page Down/Home and End keys and combined them with the up/down/left/right keys meaning you have to use two hands to press the function key for it to work. It also makes moving around spreadsheets and web pages much more difficult. I spent over £2000 upgrading it and then had to send it back from frustration. I really don't understand why manufacturers mess about with keyboard layouts - the same happened when ASUS and a few others decided to swap the fn and ctrl keys over - that drove me mad and i bought my Sony SZ4 which was great. But the backward step of sony just cost them my business (and me £72 to send it back to Holland!!) Anyway the screen resolution of 1600x900 on it also was way too small for comfortable viewing. The Dell seems to have everything in the right place and now has £1000 of my money! Thanks Sony! Don't buy Sony!!