The XPS M1710 Dell notebook uses blue ray technology to increase storage

Dell announced that the XPS M1710, their highest-end multimedia notebook, will feature Blue Ray Discs technology, that will give users more storage space and additional DVD features.

Blue-Ray discs are high-density optical discs that can store large amounts of data and digital content (including high definition) and that allow reading and writing high-definition videos. A blue-ray disk is able to store 50GB of data, which is five times more than a DVD’s capacity.

“Blue-ray optical drive technology has gained broad industry support and we believe it will become the optical drive standard of the future” said Alex Gruzen, senior vice president, Dell Product Group.

The new XPS M1710 laptop features:

• High picture quality at 48 Mbps and up to 1,080p high-definition resolution
• Offers up to 7.1 channels of uncompressed surround sound and options for up to 32 audio streams for cinematic sound
• Backwards compatibility with CD and DVD, which enables DVD and CD movie playback, DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) authoring and CD, DVD and BD data burning
• First Blu-ray Disc system to meet logo requirements for NVIDIA® PureVideoTM technology which delivers the ultimate HD experience on a PC
• Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 and Intel Core 2 Duo T7600G (2.33GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB) processors
• Superior NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics processing unit with 512MB delivers vivid realism in the latest games at extreme HD
• Up to 4 GB1 667 MHz DDR2 memory
• Serial ATA hard drive up to 160 GB2
• Personalized XPS service with dedicated sales, specially trained technicians and designated phone queue