Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
1.) The Noisy Single fan that cools both the cpu and gpu that sounds like a Jet Engine or Hairdryer w/ a noise level of 50+ decibels
2.) The Heat and throttling issue
3.) The Screen touching the keyboard showing vertical line marks that needs to be wipe everytime
4.) Some keys on the keyboard are squeaky
If they can fix all that on the new revision and put a minimum of GTX 760m or GTX 765m then we are in business.
UPDATE 06-11-2013
Looks like the new M14x weighs 6.6lbs ouch and thicker than the R1/R2 and based on the laptopmag review, it suffers from uncomfortable heat and very loud singe fan noise .
You would think Alienware would learn something from what happened in r1/r2 and with a thick chassis and 6.6lbs, you would think they would improved the cooling and make the fan more silent or at least fit in dual cooling fans.
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Personally, I like the idea of having a port that can contain an optical drive, or another hard drive, or some other component. In reality, given that these are a low volume product, I would not expect the engineering costs to be worth it.
In fact, I removed the optical drive from my 12.1" Fujitsu laptop a couple of years ago and replaced it with a second hard drive - running 720Gb of SSD for a very fast little system. There has been only one situation where I regretted not having the optical drive, and that was because my USB external optical drive failed. I can ALMOST count the number of discs burned on that laptop with the fingers of one fist....
There seems to be an implication that the R3 will not have a lit keyboard. That is a deal killer for me - no lit keyboard, no buy. I find this far too useful when working in many situations - I DJ, and I do photo and video editing in odd (as in - not well lit) situations. A well aimed LED, such as some Lenovo have, might work, but I am not sure.....
For me, the following are needed to make it worthwhile:
- newer nVidia video card from latest generation
- improved cooling
- 32Gb RAM max
- good selection of high end CPUs
- more ports that are current - USB3, etc.
- better engineering in terms of not having keys pressed against the screen when closed, mechanical keyboard or very high quality keyboard
- next generation WiFi, preferred 11ac
- top quality IPS or equiv screen, regardless of resolution
For screen resoltuion, I would like to say 1920x1080 (or even better - 1920 x 1200!) but given the pi$$ poor way Windows handles changing the font size, I am not sure that 1600x900 isn't the ideal resolution for a 14" screen. I find 1920x1080 on a 15.6" screen to be very good, but if the characters were any smaller it would not work for me. I have been using a 12.1" 1280x800 screen for a few years, and it is very good and easy to read, but I would not want things to be any smaller on that screen.
Should there be a way to make Windows handle changing system font sizes and magnification really, really well - ONLY THEN would a higher resolution screen become a requirement.
These requirements are not outlandish - you can get close to every one of them on other laptops. Should Alienware put them all into one 14" laptop and keep the price reasonable, it should move a lot of units IMHO. -
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Here you go : http://i.imgur.com/EmzWbTO.jpg
The picture was captured by Cloudfire from the video that leaked last week (which seems to have disappeared btw). You can see the letters on the keyboard are slightly lightning. No more lights around the keys though.
Anyway we will see about all that tomorrow
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It will also have i7-4700mq 47 watts Haswell Quadcore cpu and a cold metal Magnesium Alloy Chassis instead of that smudge prone rubberize finish.
Also 1080p IPS Matte Display
Cold metal Magnesium Alloy confirmed!!
Geforce GTX 765m confirmed!!
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M14x R3 is almost here with an official announcement in about 6-8 days. Hopefuly they fixed the following
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Benchmade 42, Jun 4, 2013.
