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    Alienware M17X R3 good for a college student?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Rymesis, Mar 12, 2017.

  1. Rymesis

    Rymesis Notebook Consultant

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    My nephew has a Dell laptop that has a Celeron processor in it right now(It's from 2016), I'm looking at an Alienware M17x R3 with an i7-2630QM CPU in it(Sent a message to try to find out what GPU is in it)

    He's worried about running Adobe Photoshop in it, but from what I've read on it so far is that the i7 would smoke the Celeron in everything but power consumption
     
    Rymesis, Mar 12, 2017
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    Reciever D! For Dragon!

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    Its an older laptop so you'll have to put some work into it for a college environment.

    The Battery is going to be the first thing that comes to mind, repasting and cleaning venst etc.

    What price are they asking?
     
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  3. Rymesis

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    $400 for it, i didnt think it was too bad
     
    Rymesis, Mar 13, 2017
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    I used a M17x R3 when I started school in 2011, worked perfectly fine and got like 4-5 hours of battery life on the intel GPU.
     
    Raidriar, Mar 14, 2017
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  5. Rymesis

    Rymesis Notebook Consultant

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    What battery would I get for this? I see multiple batteries listed when checking for a new one
     
    Rymesis, Mar 15, 2017
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    The genuine OEM battery.
     
    Raidriar, Mar 15, 2017
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  7. Rymesis

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    I'm having issues with windows 10, it doesn't like the Radeon HD 6970M and getting boot loops and black screen freezes and sometimes just freezing at whatever screen I was at.

    Is there any way to stress test it to see if it's failing?
     
    Rymesis, Mar 24, 2017
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    Sounds like the 6970m is having a "I don't like power saving" stuff moment, My 6990m does that, You need to boot with the power plug IN and ON or it will have a fit and tell your mother some nasty stuff.
     
    Rayleyne, Mar 27, 2017
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    boot with the power plug in and on? I understand plugged into AC, but what do you mean by on?
     
    Rymesis, Mar 27, 2017
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    here is an alternate solution: Don't use the cancerous OS known as windows 10. go back to 7 where everything worked.
     
    Raidriar, Mar 27, 2017
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