Dell XPS 15 (L501X): Intel Core i7 840QM/2GB nVidia GT435m Review

Our good friends at Cyberlink kindly supplied the software for our Bluray and conversion tests.

Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 is one of the finest solutions for the Blu-Ray experience on Windows and we found this software to work perfectly with this chipset. We tested with the Bluray Disc of Avatar, one of our favourite sci-fi films in recent years.

Average load is around 9 percent, which splits out across the 8 logical threads. This machine can easily handle multiple tasks in a multitasking environment, even when enjoying HD video content.

We then recorded the CPU demand over a specific set of time to get a ‘real world' rolling scale of activity. The Core i7 processor delivers the best results we have recorded from a laptop system.

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