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Alienware M17x-R4 Review

I love the explanations for things. I get that the M17X R4 is not for everyone, but... wow.

 

Yes and the crazy Intel HD 4000, 8GB ram size, and 64GB SSD is what makes this laptop awesome.

-1 for testranking.com, crappy site.

 

Frankly I think it goes beyond crappy to just laughably bad.

I mean, I completely understand there might be a market segment that the Alienware M17X R4 is not suitable for - actually, there are probably many of them. Size, weight, power draw, lack of battery life, cost... all legitimate downsides to getting a premium laptop on the technological edge. All fair criticisms to levy, and justifiable to include in a fair and unbiased review..... but like, doing that still requires accurately stating the specs and capabilities of the machine.

Just found it amusing how bad the review was. Figured I'd share it.

 

When will Enduro working like optimus, than will be laptop for everyone.

" Running At idle, our 17" unit has to accept criticism. 32-44 Watt is worse than average for a notebook with auto-switching GPUs. According to the tool HWiNFO, the HD7970 doesn't clock down very much in idle mode. Even without activity, its core never drops below 720 MHz. The Radeon HD 6990M had to fight with a similar problem upon its release. Power saving mechanisms seem to lack optimization at the moment"

Source

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Alienware-M17x-R4-Notebook.75292.0.html

 

Even with Enduro it's kind of ridiculous to think this laptop would ever be for "everyone". Some people would prefer a small 13 inch ultrabook with long battery life over a gaming rig; and many people wouldn't consider a laptop over 5lbs, let alone approaching 10. I think the M17X R4 is an awesome machine, but like everything, it is only good where it's strengths align with the users priorities.

 

Agreed. I carry around my gaming rig (soon to be M17xR4) and a MacBook Air. Best of both worlds!

 

XD first they mention HL2 and WoW as benchmarks, then proceed to say that its good for at least 2 years, don't talk about the 7970m at all...... I'm sorry guys I know everything I said is blatantly obvious to you but I just had to mention it the performance rating just made my day! If the M17x R4 gets just a 3/5, I want to know what netbooks get. 0.05/5 ?? I'm seriously curious!!

And thanks for the share, haha this just made my day that said on the other hand, the notebookcheck review was one of the most comprehensive ones I've seen. Liked the 7970M benchmarks there.

 

Wow that was the worst article I've read in a while. Sounds like someone needs to find some more current games to play.

 

No problem. I figured people would get a laugh, which is why I posted it.

As I said, it's not even that the review is *bad* [in the sense, not favourable to the product]. I could give a review that is pretty critical of the M17X R4 - but the thing is, that review would still have to be (1) accurate and (2) honest. That review was neither, hence the humor.

 

Half Life 2, really? Erm.... get the funk outta here.

 

They should have chosen CS 1.6 for the Gaming-Benchmarks.

Great Review btw!!!

 

Review Alienware M17x R4 Notebook - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

this is what you call a good review

 

You're doing it wrong.

 

yeshh there's no fun in that... I like HL2 and WoW don't hate on them, Battlefield 3 and Crysis can go to hell they have bad graphics that give me a headache.

thumbs up to the guy who mentioned CS 1.6 , I would run it on my ancient desktop and it still dropped frames great benchmark it is!