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To take full advantage of this software, though, you should equip the XPS 15 with a Blu-ray drive that can play 3D Blu-ray movies.

We also tested the $799 version of the Inspiron 14z, which comes witha 1.7-GHz Core i5-3317U CPU, 6GB of RAM, a 500GB, 5,400-rpm hard drive, and an integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU.

What's the point of buying a laptop nowadays that can't play Blu-Rays?? The 6GB of RAM instead of 4GB is also a nice addition.

There are plenty of ports, and the DVD drive has come in handy, with the premium sound.

The battery life is incredible, and it charges very quickly.

The hard drive performs as well as any 7200RPM drive and overall system boot-up is fairly quick.

the arrow keys are too thin, half the height of normal keys.

It's single core low powered Intel Atom processor is hyper-threaded, but that's not saying much these days.