So my day just got substantially better!

The aliens have arrived :thumbsup:

 

Oh my...just popped open the box and this thing is beautiful. The weight isn't isn't near what I thought it would be. The build quality is great. BEAST is the perfect description.

 

Awesome, what build did you get?

 

Sounds fun! More pictures..

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Ya'll want more pics? Ok...gimmie a minute lemme play for a minute

 

Did you get it earlier than the tracking website said then? My eta is the 15th but the page hasn't updated still says in China pending...

 

Yes, my ETA was the 14th.

 

Did you use the tracking website and did it work?

 

Wow! I haven't seen the AW 17 configured with the AMD RADEON R9 M290X. I wonder how the performance is like compared to the GTX 780M.

 

I did use the website and it worked, however my situation is a little different. My A17 was ordered as my work laptop by the company I work for so that may have been why it shipped so quickly.

 

I'm excited about trying it out. I'm about to pop in a 1 TB SSD drive. I've read/heard that performance is very similar, guess we shall find out!

 

Here's a few more pics from my awesome new just arrived A17









MASSIVE power brick:

 

power brick gets hot when gaming.. make sure its well vented, and i would highly suggest a good laptop cooling pad, like a cool master u3

 

congrats and welcome

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Thanks! Alienrespawn was a big fat fail so I'm having to clean install Windows. It has to do with 8.1. When I would try and open it it would fail and say corrupted recovery partition.

Quick Google search led me to these forums (+1 for that) and I tried to remove and reinstall the newer version but it would fail at creating the recovery partition.

I wasn't going to fight it anymore so clean install it is! I am going to attempt to reinstall Alienrespawn when I get all my drivers loaded.

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It's much bigger in person isn't it?

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No doubt bro, but in a good way. It's just awesomer in person

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Cool! Glad the wait is finally over. Hope everything goes smoothly.

 

Thanks J! As soon as I get these girlies in bed, (have 2 daughters) I'm going to get back to setting everything up. The Complete install on my SSD went great. I just have a few drivers left and then I can really start having fun with this beast.

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Let us know how the performance of the AMD R9 M290X is.


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Congrates !!!!!!!!! Sadly mine says it' still in production .

 

Since your using a SSD ,

The SSD Optimization Guide Ultimate Windows 8 (And Win7) Edition | The SSD Review

hughe improvements, + the clean install is better for the SSD,

 

i used that guide to set up windows on my SSD and it works nicely.

 

Thanks everyone, I'll check out the SSD Optimization guide! I didn't get to do much last night because we had a crazy bad storm roll through that pretty much trashed my entire neighborhood. It smashed our A/C compressor...grrrr...

 

Wow, that's crazy. At least your Alienware is okay.

 

Amen to that brother!

 

Aww man that sucks! Hopefully it'll come in soon!

 

I think I might buy this laptop
Could you please tell me about the weight and , is it easy to be carried around??? How is the screen? And please tell me about the fans noise on idle.tnx

¡ HALA MADRID ¡

 

I feel I should start another thread with some of the things I'm finding out. So I've finally finished my clean install of Windows 8.1 on my Samsung EVO 840 1 TB SSD, got all my drivers updated to the latest, followed the optimization guide and made changes as necessary and now I'm re-installing Alienrespawn.

Before, on the 500 Gig OEM Hybrid drive, Alienrespawn would fail to find a recovery drive. I attempted to uninstall/reinstall and it would fail to finish the "prepare" phase. Well, with the clean install Alienrespawn seems to be working. As soon as it is finished installing and preparing, I'm going to make a recovery using it. Hopefully it'll work this time!

I also installed the latest notebook catalyst drivers from AMD, version 14.4, and it shows in the Device Manager, as well as in the Catalyst Control Center, as the AMD Radeon HD8970M, which I expected. I was worried about it showing my full 4 Gigs of VRAM, but it does show to have 4 Gigs.

Can't wait to start actually firing up some big boy games on this thing and seeing how she runs!

And avands, this isn't a light laptop by any means...it's almost 10 lbs. If you were to get a backpack, which I would suggest, it would make it easy to carry around. With this weight, you get a well made machine that is built like a tank, so the weight doesn't bother me one bit, plus last night I was carrying it around with one arm without problems. The screen is a great matte, 1080p Full HD screen...Invest in Full HD not faux HD. The fans aren't even audible during idle. It's a great machine!

 

Tnx very much for your answer. Well here where I live (iran) there arent many ailenware.so I should buy one at a hefty price.16 gig 770m 128ssd 1 terabite 750 gigi hard drive at 3000 $ so I should be cautious.so my serious consern is the build quality. How is The rubberized plastic? I saw in a thread that it may come off after a little while.

¡ HALA MADRID ¡

 

In the world of bricks, that 240W is surprisingly compact and portable, it's the baby of the big brick world.

 

I got a nice e-mail this morning . It will be here tomorrow . I also ordered a 500 gig SSD that will be here Thursday .

 

Interesting...but now that you mention it, it really is slim...almost like a blu-ray or dvd case.

 

The rubberized plastic seems very well made. Feels durable and doesn't make me think it will come off, but that remains to be seen. I would start another thread so more folks who have had their A17 longer than I have can help you out. But for me, this is easily the best build quality of any laptop I have owned.

 

Just installed PlanetSide 2, fired it up, set it to Ultra...BUTTERY smooth :thumbsup: