M18x Makes Landfall! Pictures, Videos, Unboxing Thoughts, etc. Share away!

What is the difference between this one and AMD Catalyst 11.5b hotfix ?

 

Witcher 2 fixes for CFX is the biggest change.

 

Hey BB, I know everyone thinks I do nothing but complain, lol... but I'm having the same issue with RAID 0 as well. Not to mention SUPER bad keyflex.

Other than that, it's an awesome build. I like the rubber arm rest and it's very tightly built too. Screen isn't bad at all either.

 

This is what I get from just received M18X

 

WOW, I would NOT be happy with that!!!!! - I got mine today and she is still in the box in the hallway......I think I will open her up in a bit and chek her out for damage.

Seriously, would NOT be at all happy with that kind of damage....

 

That stinks, but its a simple part and easy to replace.

I dunno what is going on with mine at the moment...

 

Hi guys just wanted to share a couple of pics with you.

the red one is an M17x-R1 one on the right is an m18x-R1.




Front





Here is the most visible difference between my 2 machines besides size








As far as i can see, the m17x-R1 colors look and feel better, I believe the m18x-R1 screen can be calibrated, but the m17x-R1 wasn't calibrated at all.

Overall very satisfied with my M18x-R1

 

Ah I finally see what the fuss is all about regarding the screen Still the m18x screen looks good.

 

Yeah that sucks, but luckily it is a easily replaceable part, so there will be minimal impact to the rest of the machine.

 

Lovely pics thank you

 

It looks to me like the m18x is much brighter than the 17 and the brightness is washing out the color saturation. Try turning down the brightness with them side by side and see if you can get them to look similar.

 

i ordered mine 23 of may and my EDD is 10 of jun, the pictures is beautiful wbabt007 thanks for sharing it , i have the area 51 M17X the old design and i'm not happy with the colors the screen is 17" WideXGA 1440 x 900 LCD so if there is anyone here have the same machine or have experience with this kind of screen res before i just want to know the differences , thanks

 

Makes me long for the RGBLED even more sadly. But what is amazing is that it's not all that much bigger than M17x.

 

wbabt007 nice upload of the pic : ) thank you

 

I would be shattered. Hopefully you get this resolved.

 

Awesome pics wbabt007. Thank you. I'm trying to decide between the M17x and M18x. Very helpful.

 

OK, received my M18X yesterday here are my thoughts...

1. Clean installation of Windows and drivers was not as easy for me as it appears to be for others, it is my first time. I was going to install all drivers from the dell website, however, once I did the clean install on the new M4 SSD I did not have access to the internet due to no drivers being installed. I had to use the resource CD to download the majority of drivers.

2. I installed my own 16 Gig hyperX Memory, it was not the plug and play, but adjusting the BIOS was easy enough. Getting the second two RAM in was a challenge as I had to remover the keyboard. Again, I am a bit of a novice.

3. I paid for the factory OC, which I believe is the "Level 3" in the BIOS. Mine was not set to Level 3, it was set to Level 1. I reset it myself and seems to be OC'ing just fine. I want my 75.00 back, but how do I prove it was not complete when it arrived?

4. My system seems a big buggy, sometimes it freezes when I switch between users, restart or shutdown. I think this is a SSD issue and I have read about the M4 having some issues. I found the REG fix or LPM fix, however, it seems pretty complicated even though some folks said they did it in two min. If someone can break it down for me Barney style, that would be cool. Seems the issue is with IRST, so I uninstalled and currently using Microsoft. This helped, but still everynow and then it will lock up or something.

4. The performance is unreal, Vantage score of 21737. CPU Score of 23203 and GPU of 21289. This is an awesome system, I will probably appreciate it more once I am over all of the headache of clean install and SSD issues.

 

Yes! the most difficult part is to remove the central panel....easy to remove 5 screws but it really hard to pop up the panel...if anyone can share some tips, it is highly appreciated...I took 20 mins to remove it but failed...

 

Pretty sure it slides towards the back of the laptop then just lifts off (if you are talking about the bottom)

 

I think maybe he is talking about the panel on the front? I used (gently) a small flathead screwdriver to help pop it loose.

 

There are gaps on the back edge for prying it up

 

G D M F S O B..... $#!+.....

System looks great.... except for the bloody France Keyboard.....

it's set up so i can actually TYPE QWERTY, but the keys look like AZERTY.

The Q and A are reversed, and the M and ; are reversed....and it really looks wierd...

I haven't even tried to test out my games to see how they play... I think i'll need a few days to drift back towards reality, if I call Dell support now, i'll be charged with abuse.

 

I started to remove the panel from the right back, then I removed it from the left front. There appears to be one area which it stuck at and I had a bear of a time taking it off. Once I did I made sure I did not break the plastic tab.

The crappy thing is I have to do this again once the replacement comes. At least I will have spare parts this time though (but I will still be very careful)

 

Yeah it's a bit nerve wracking as those tabs come loose.

 

what? really? ... pics?

 

Here's how my keyboard looks:

 

mines the standard US, howd you get that keyboard?

 

Dunno, but I will get it replaced soon...

 

Great PICS peeps more more more please!


Cheers.

 

Yea i got the same one too, the monkeys working at dell must have assumed all Canadians are french...or they ran out of english keyboards? Either way its NOT ok to send a customer a language they didn't request.

 

lol, I've been waiting for alienware to release their models with azerty keyboards for years (Belgium uses Azerty), this gives me litle bit of hope for the future

 

seagate xt 500gb = slow/ancient... compared to vertex 2, that is all

 

Yeah....ummmm obviously LOL one is a SSD the other is a wanna be SSD with only 4% of SSD "goodness" hahahahaha......like a pretender really.....

 

i thought it was supposed to be close to a raptor but its actually more like a regular 500gb hdd. SSDs for LIFE.

 

Well i agree.....i only ordered mine with an XT as it was £30 over a base 320hdd.....already got a 256gb SSD (proper one lol) to pop in and put the XT as "semi-fast" storage in bay 2. Jobs a good 'un.....

 

You mean the hybrid one ?

 

yep, it takes quite a while to load everything up after startup. the ssd does everything instantly.

 

Oh I see

 

If we want to compare the hybrid one with the casual HHD , which one is better than the other ?

 

the hybrid for sure

 

Crysis 2 run very well with all settings set on EXTREME, HDRLevel 1.0, Bloom Level 1.0, MultiGPU, No Intro.

However, i need to disable MSAA to avoid flickering.

I am using Crysis 2 Advanced Graphics Options v1.7

 

Could you record a video? I so wanna watch this beast playing such games.

 

Yes please a vid!

 

Was trying out a Crysis Benchmark run on my M18x and got bad results...is this a known issue with benchmarking the Steam install of Crysis instead of a disk install?

 

is there any difference between the 2 versions?

 

I would imagine that there should not be

But I expected much better performance than what I was seeing (17 fps)

 

??? ive been getting 53+ fps in crysis all maxed settings no aa in 1080p

 

Hmm that seems wrong. I don't look to deeply into that benchmark because the actual game runs much smoother.

 

I know but I like using the benchmark to compare systems

Was not worried about actual game play