If Alienware made a tablet out of the M11x...

Well I had the time to draw and sketch out some stuff today but it's was a bummer to find out that the M11x is not going to be produced anymore in the future. Expecting that Ivy Bridge is more economical in terms of power and the Kepler GPUs have low power consumption as well without sacrificing power...

What if they made a tablet out of the M11x? Would it look like this?

 

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why noone bump? its really nice design , dell joins apple/android/wars

 

I like it and would buy it

 

M11x tablet was attempted by ejohnson i think? Was scrapped due to lack of touch screen IIRC.

Also that design is rather flawed, why would you put all of those lid designs on the back of the tablet which is going to be facing a table/stand most of the time?

 

Nice one Arklight. That is a very cool design.

 

yea Ejohnson tried it but couldnt find a touchscreen that would work. someone managed to find one for him later but by then all the parts he was gonna use were gone. Shame tho.

 

If running windows 8 I'm sure they would sell great! It would need to have a high res screen like ipad3 however


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I love the m11x, sadly I had to sell mine, and i am frustrated that the new owner is not taking care of it properly.

It's also sad to find out that they're not doing an R4, so that's a bummer. But I hope that Alienware would be innovative enough and would take a little bit of risk at next year's CES.. Razer has been "innovating" but I have no interest in Razer's laptop whatsoever.

 

Wouldn't it get hot if it had those specs?
And I imagine the fan getting noisy while playing...

In fact... How would you play?
You'd still need a keyboard, unless you give up space on the screen for a touchable keyboard...

Anyway, I like the idea... Very cool, I'm just thinking that they're the same specs kinda in a standard M11X, and even that gets hot, and giving up half the space and cramming more in would make it even hotter!

Anyway, still looks and sounds like a brutal idea!

 

I had a fully working version, but yes, the lack of touch screen is what ended up killing the project.

I may revive the project soon though. I will be ordering a m14xr2 so my m11x will be back up for mods again.
Here are a few pics of the early stage. I never did get any pictures of the system all put together though.




I still have a few of the custom lcd bezel parts.

 

Dooooo itttttt!!!!

I'd love to see this up and running.

What OS would it be running?

Would you be putting the Alienware badge on it somewhere?

Arklight's concepts are neat, I mean by the funky looking back of it, however the use of the M11X base makes sense due to space to disperse heat...

Possible to make it thinner?

What specs where you going to put in this?

 

It was just a stock r1 su7300, the only alienware badge was the word alienware on the bottom of the lcd... the grill lights became the top of the lcd.

Everything on the system worked, but you had to use a external keyboard/mouse.

If I do it again, I will give windows 8 a shot, since its designed for touch screen.

 

I googled and found your thread about it. Very nice work.

So you had to use an external keyboard and mouse because of the no touch-screen issue, yeah?

I followed the like of the other windows tablet idea, the 17" 17 Inch Windows Tablet by James Hardman + Jim Hardman (Aurkron) — Kickstarter

I'd actually really like to see something like this, If AW, then even better!
I'd mainly use it as a Cintiq Wacom tablet kinda thing if a touch-screen is found and as responsive as the Cintiq's, iPad still have lag and require a fair bit of pressure to draw on, so a no-goer for me.

But I'd LOVE a small screen tablet to draw on in Photoshop...

I reckon if you could get the AW head badge it would make it all the more better!
And a tablet with a bit of guts would be amazing!

I'd buy one, but would still like to see in thinner... between 10 - 20mm... But it'd be hard with so much grunt in a little tacker.

 

I saw this after posting my design, AWESOME!!!

If you think about it, parts nowadays are getting smaller and more powerful so it's not an excuse for alienware to slack on making one like this.

 

I am sorry, but have all of you gone mental? what would be the point of a gaming tablet? FPS would be impossible, no buttons would kill almost everything but RPGs and strategy games... like lets go rock some draw something on an I5 with 540GT?

while it would be a nice thing to look at most likely, it would be an idiotic idea at the very least... even with some special cradle attachment controller to hold it in... it would get mad hot at those specs, would weigh a ton as well considering you want anything more than 1hour battery life...

It would be completely useless and impractical for anything else than making a hobby project, then playing few games using an external controller... you simply couldn't run an I5/I7 with atleast a mid range video card and keep the damn tablet light or have even remotely any battery life...

and no. it would not be awesome... if alienware actually made one, i would never buy anything alienware ever again, and utterly loose all interest in the company or its products...

 

I don't think ejohnson was building one to be practicle, but to experiment, have fun with the experience, and BECAUSE HE CAN muahahaha . I do think it would be viable with Windows 8 because of the app thing, but yea to game on it, the games would need a program running in the background for screen controls and battery might be an issue. On the other hand battery might not be an issue... the sony PS Vita only gets 2.5-3 hours gaming anyway.

 

Actually - a gaming tablet is in the works, just not by Alienware. Behold the new tablet to be offered by Razer (supposedly by the end of the year)...

Project Fiona | Razer | For Gamers. By Gamers.

 

Hybrid user interface for PC gaming
Intel® Core™ i7
10.1" 1280x800 display
Full-screen user interface supporting multi-touch
3-axis gyro, magnetometer, accelerometer
Force feedback
Dolby® 7.1 surround sound
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth® 3.0

what about video card? or half-life is what we'll be rocking in a kick- 7.1 surround environment? anyway if it gets say a 540gt or similar, it will NEED fans to cool it, it will need a big battery to keep it alive on the go and it will be heavy...

also i do understand ejohnson was just messing with it, and it was lovely to look, i am all for some lovely DIY projects like that, but that won't make a gaming tablet viable option... ever probably. unless they port one of home consoles to it and make a portable 720p xbox360/ps3 or a ps2... i can see that working, but not a gaming PC tablet.

 

To be honest, I don't think tablets are even remotely close to being optimized for gaming therefore a video card is unnecessary.

 

... clarification pls? how would you play as screenshots imply in the website, space marine? i doubt it would run WITHOUT a graphics card. it wouldn't run any modern games without it... wouldn't be a gaming tablet if you couldn't actually see the graphics in games now would it... and being able to play chess and convert videos using an I7 CPU wouldn't exactly make it a gaming tablet... just some sort of pointless monstrosity with handle bars on sides.

unless you mean normal tablets. then you're wrong anyways, as pretty much everything gets a video card these days, may it be smart phone or a laptop... its just that most of them are pretty lame... otherwise the screen would be rather pointless. and they are fine optimized for gaming, like chess and solitaire, though not the kind of gaming people who know what gaming is want.