Many laptop models may have initial difficulties
Consumers are finding out that for a yet still unverified reason, their Studio 16 XPS i7 systems are having major lag and stuttering issues when playing games. One can find numerous reports on Dell's community board and discussion boards on Notebook Review.com about this issue.
Owners are revealing that when their laptops are powered by the AC power supply and are playing games, they experience lag issues. However, when they play the same games on battery power only without using power saving features, the issue seems to either be reduced or go away.
According to many contributors on both boards, the Studio 16 XPS i7 system may be having problems with its 90watt AC power supply. Many of these owners have high contrast RGBLED screens which draws more power than regular LED screens. When combined with the ATI 4670 GPU, the system may be drawing too much power. At least this is a prevailing theory that has yet to be directly proven.
Unfortunately, there is yet to be a solution that can be verified. Some are suggesting on Notebook Review.com that a more powerful power supply might solve the issue. Others have experimented with reducing the voltage settings of the CPU. If it is merely a power supply issue, than hopefully a new more powerful power supply will remedy these problems.
Then there are owners who haven't had problems playing games or other activities. There are videos of games being played very well on the system on Youtube. Apparently for some, these problems are not surfacing.
It should be stated the Studio 16 XPS system is a very well designed, multimedia system. It has won very good reviews from testers and consumers alike. It is my opinion, and many may or may not agree, that the laptop is probably one of the better laptops to be developed by Dell or even other manufacturers. Hopefully when these problems are fixed, the system will continue to be a success.
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Looking through the forum posts dated in the last day or two, it seems that the 130W adapter seems to have resolved the issues so the theory should prove correct. I have one on order which should arrive soon so I should be able to help backup the claims of the issue and solution.
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