so just wondering, is it possible to update the list, and make it so R2 includes 3 harddrive slots + optical.
i mean sagers 17 and 18 inch laptop both supports it, i would hate to buy a sager just cause of it, having raid 0 + additional harddrive storage is just too good.
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Please excuse my late answer,
Is it possible for an 18" laptop to carry 3 HDD/SDD + Optical & a SLi/CF ? (Without the laptop do more than 10cm thick?)
My question is is there really à nead to put SSD in RAID ?! Now I think the SSD drive speed is enough and they get enough storage capacity.
In other words I prefer to have a laptop more thicker than one woth more disk slot.
Evidently it's personal, and I await the opinion of others about it.
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Info here for the NP9270 : Sager NP9270 (Clevo P270WM)
I'm curious to know the noise product by this beast !
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Those "other laptops" are made of plastic and might not be a good (durable) option for people that travel extensively with their mobile gaming system. Before I decided to only buy systems with a metal chassis, every laptop I have owned ended up with chips and cracks in the chassis, and I am very careful with my stuff. It also seems like the larger the laptop is, the more likely it is that the chassis will end up cracked.
Even for my work computers, all with a plastic chassis end up with cracks and chips. My current work computer is a business-class HP and it is cracked in two places and one of the corners has a chipped spot. It still works (as good as an HP product is capable of working) but it is no longer being included in the corporate laptop "fleet" because it is not durable. I have had several Dell Latitude laptops at work, and they were not an exception. Great computers, but you cannot expect plastic to hold up to heavy travel... it just doesn't. This is one of the reasons that the ThinkPad and ToughBook have been two of the best business-class systems available. Based on my experience, a plastic laptop is a poor investment unless you rarely travel with it and handle it with kid gloves. -
ThinkPads are dropping the ball lately. Seen too many issues with their plastic shell. My wife's W510 has a nasty crack below the touchpad...and she never travels with it
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this thread is interesting actualy pointing to dell what they did good in previous alienwares and telling them to integrate it back
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well depending on how many features are reintroduced i might very well be jumping in for the m18x this year otherwise ill wait to see next year
for me no 16:10 is what killed the recent alienware
but since i recently hit the wall with my 4850 i'm looking to upgrade
(i never hit a performance wall but a feature wall one of my programing project require OpenCL suport and my 4850 only have partial suport) sadly for dell the project still have many years of devlopement comming so even if they don't reintroduce 16:10 i still can wait a couple years -
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to bad then ill just keep on patching my m17-r1 till it dies for good
cause those 120 vertical picel are mighty usefull when programing and 16:9 makes me claustrophobic XD
ps as an old school alienware user i'm nostalgic about the skullcape desing (not the cheap version off the plastic lower alienware) maybe we can add an oldschool skullcape area-51 style lid to the desing sugestion? -
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FUI, I added to the IdeaStorm discussion a request for a Killer Gaming NIC to be added as a wireless option.
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" End of an era: NASA shuts down its last mainframe" Oh my G', the one that have "4MB memory..."?
( End of an era: NASA shuts down its last mainframe | Deep Tech - CNET News )
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If the new m18x had all that stuff in the OP, I would scrape together all the money I don't have and buy that in a second. On the other hand, maybe the m17x would have equally epic features...
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bigger heatsinks and bigger fans
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Manual fan control, especially something like clevo does. FN+1 puts fans on full blast. And of course all the other things like RGB screen, doesn't need to be 3D for me.
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is OLED superior to RGB LED? I don't see many monitors being advertised as RGB LED anymore? This seemed to be more popular 2 years ago?
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Or do I have the whole vsync thing wrong?
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katalin_2003 NBR Spectre Super Moderator
You can always cap your monitor at 60Hz
in nVidia CP or CCC for AMD.
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Better QA. I went through 3 M18X's before I got one that worked, and even so, it required me to swap parts from replacement 2 into replacement 3.
Designed by Alienware, assembled by Shadowyani. Lol.
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, I have paid $823.36 for the annual service....
And the most strange thing is the support history. I did not call the Agent on one day, but the history shows "Agent initiated phone contact." The other days calling history disappeared. The agent's promise depended. Someone promised to send the computer back this week, the next day the other one denied. -
Better service, better Q&A, laptops that work when you first receive them or when you buy an upgrade, not being called a liar by the tech support (aka, better training), and i think this is enough...to begin with.
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But, please don't forget the RGB/IPS LED with better resolution ratio (as in the 17":1920x1200or similar )
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What users want in the M18x R2
Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Anentropik, Aug 29, 2011.