(image above was distorted for effect — the bulge is NOT like this, haha)

So, you just spent probably more than $1000 on your fancy new Dell XPS m1330 and expected perfection!  I know I did.  However, you open the box to find that you have a bulging keyboard!  Needless to say you are quite upset (again, I know I was). This reminded me of when I bought my first m1210, it had an even worse bulge in the keyboard, and it turned out to be the cause of the touchpad cable being improperly routed under some plastic of the chassis.  So I googled for people who have had their m1330’s come with a bulging keyboard too, and I found others post about it from notebookreview.com.  I have also since ordered 3, my roommate has also ordered 3, and ALL of them have had the bulging keyboard.  

BUT you are in luck!  Assuming you still want to keep the laptop (it’s a great laptop sans this keyboard issue), there is a way to fix it!  Turns out, it’s another cabling issue and I’m here to show you how.  Granted, even after this fix there still seems to be a SLIGHT bulge, to which I think is due to the the case itself which would be hard to fix (I explain this later), but it’s MUCH better after fixing the WiFi cable — good enough to finally be happy with it.   So here we go:

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