XPS M1710

The XPS M1710 was announced on April 18, 2006 as a higher-end 17-inch WUXGA TrueLife widescreen XPS desktop replacement available in black or red. The system was marketed to gamers, sharing a chassis design and many components with the lower end Inspiron E1705/9400 and the higher end Precision M90. The base design featured an Intel Core Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900GS or 7900 GTX, 7200 RPM SATA hard drive, DDR2 SDRAM, a magnesium alloy case with user configurable multicolor LED lighting in the touchpad, fans, speakers and lid, access to an "exclusive" XPS-branded segment of DELL's business support division, and was built on the Precision M90's D-Dock motherboard. Later models offered the Core 2 Duo processor, the NVidia 7950GTX, and optional Blu-ray. As the mainboard used the Intel 945 chipset, the XPS M1710 could not address more than 3.25 GByte of RAM though Dell specified "up to 4GB RAM". This computer was replaced by the XPS M1730