Dicussion of the layers of the front light on 14x

unlike 15x or 17x, there is only one layer on the front light on 14x and it more and more make looks like a vaccum sucker to me...why dont dell put two layers on it............

 

What do you mean "one layer on the front light"? Or did you mean the light brightness? If so then you can find it by right click on the alien-head in the notification and select "Dim Lighting Zone" or "Dim Lighting Zone in Battery Mode Only"

 

i meant there is a thing in the light area to sperate it into half...well, it looks like the light area is cut off nto half

 

Doesn't it only have one color coming out of it anyway for the m15x and m17x?

Why not just stick a piece of plastic in between? Presto.

 

by front light do you mean the grills on the front of the laptop or the alienware logo on the back of screen

 

Do you mean how on the M15x and M17x there is a plastic ridge in the middle to separate them while the m14x and m11x have one big grill?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/putu/4086534044/ (M15x)

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/4496/teaser.jpg (M14x)

like that?

 

ah that makes more sense +rep for clarifying I think

 

Another reason would be the laptop's thickness

 

But why do you care about the front light thing, I mean because of that thing didnt actually do anything (except for the AlienFX & Music Virtualization Music-FX), so why care about it? I think like Katalin said, maybe of the thickness, because if Dell put that light split plastic on it, it going to look ugly to me and worse would block the light nearly entirely or it is just a design for the two laptop series (M11x/M14x) to have same feature while the M17x and M18x have its same feature. (in my imagination).

 

+1 it doesn't really do anything and is purely a cosmetic Piece of plastic. I do admit I like the look of it though, makes the laptop look more fearsome.

 

I will say though that the m14x's lighting could have been better done. The colour is rather faded near the middle, especially the space bar. A dedicated light in the middle would have been nice.

 

I actually think that a grill split in the middle could have been done on the m14x. If they kept the same design as the m15x I mean. It would just be a cool little compact Alienware. I think it wouldve been better than now, this design doesnt pop out as much as the M17x r2 I saw once

 

I think the grill split would've made it look more menacing. I was kinda disappointed once I realized it was left out.

Also the ability to make the touchpad, activity lights, and power button change colours automatically would've been good too.

 

does the m14x just one big lighting zone?

 

Not sure what you mean but this is how M14x lighting zone look like in the command centre.



What Fred2028 is talking about, it doesnt mean it is just one combo light, you can change it in the command centre, however I think what he saying is that you cannot get it to morph between colour like those on the AW Logo, Keyboard and the grill thing, it is just static light.

 

ah that makes sense. I like having all of my different lighting zones though