*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owners Lounge - Part 4

right now i have about 10gb free on my ssd and using about 500gb on my external. yea i have alot of stuff, mostly stuff for my job.

holy crap J, man taking care of business i see. btw your avatar=AWESOME. insert drooling smiley face.

 

as long as the canadiens are still in the playoffs.... im keepin the avatar.... so pray they win the cup LOLL

 

yo j just tried to dl from that link for 64 bit its no longer there bro

also j im canadian too but its so hard to root for canada when the star of the gold medal team in on the pens soooo hard to choose

 

160gb is 423 bucks minus my 230 is almost 200 thats alot of money, hmmm maybe really think 160gb i need that much space, any other brands beside intel good or are they the best. What about kingston v series or samsung or cosair or ocz

also oem vs retail

 

crap.. im on it... ill find you the good links

and yea i love crosby... my fav player...

but i love the habs as a team....after all its my home team! i live in montreal Vermont is friggin close.... i dirve down there sometimes to get cheaper flights to the US... its liek an hr drive... and gets me 50% off the ticket prices...insanity huh...

EDIT: Links back up courtesy of justinkw1

 

yea i know moving to waterloo canada soon for university. ill be back where i belong my last college was a literal jail sentence it was built on the grounds of a former prison and the dorms where kept the same except they took out the barred windows and doors and replaced em LOL and on top of that they had a state police barracks stationed on the campus

 

yea need to order one from amazon in the next 45 min for prime overnight help me out jstar woot

 

BANG: Amazon.com: intel x-25m g2

There she is. STAT. just how you wanted it

 

woot thanks j

 

lol what about the kingston v plus series its 100 bucks cheaper also only the oem intel in prime eligible is there a difference.

why intel over the rest

 

Theyre the fastest...but its up to you man...SSD's get complicated... REAL complicated.. between sequential speeds...random access speeds..sustained speeds...TRIM or No TRIM....its a big mumbojumbo of specs all coming together to give its overall performance.... and the intel g2 takes the cake... alot of older model ssd's get REALLY slow after a while.. and only start off quick... Here to be safe... get any one of these and you should be good.

Top 5 Solid-State Drives - PCWorld

( doesn't have to be the 256gb models shown...lol)

 

if it was u would get the intel, also what is oem vs the retail also u think the 80 gb is to small

 

The OEM is the drive alone. No cables, no manual, no mounting brackets... but i think you should be good with the oem

 

mmmmm my smoked meat got here... im out! hope this helped!

And yes i would get the intel ... its the TOP SSD out right now.

 

no trim suport out of box so need cables for firmware right

 

u think 80gb is too small

 

80gb is too small for me... but if you keep basic apps on it it shud be enough... you could also transform your existing 250gb hdd into an esata external one with a kit, which would make it like an internal hdd just outside your laptop... since esata is ALOT faster than usb2.0 and you could install and run apps off it no problem...and if im not mistaken the cables inside your m15x for your hdd are good for your ssd also. and im also pretty sure trim is on the firmware already...maybe not the latest and greatest firmware.. but trim should be on there...

 

something about this sounds so wrong, hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

hmmmm ok, man these things are so price i am wondering if I shold just hold off for a bit, but something newer always comes out. what cable would i need for updating firmware, also could i uppdate once installed.

 

ok this is getting annoying now warez-bb is down every site i go to for apps is systematically getting shut down anyone got another site for apps appreciate any reference

nvm rlslog is back up but if anyone has any other website than the ones ive mention would be greatly appreciated

 

no cables needed for firmware update, you just flash it like your bios. just install it, if its new then it should already have the newest firmware already.

 

Well less than 4 days and my motherboard is dead...

Tech is coming in a few days...

Sucks... I don't want some unknowledgeable 3rd party tech...

This honestly sucks so bad right now...Dell wouldn't even let me replace it with a tech over the phone.

Can I do the work and have the tech just watch?

 

thats what i'm doing. i'm just going to take everything apart ahead of times. so when they come, i'll just put it in myself.

 

And that's allowed? Won't the tech mind?

 

My spacebar doesn't seem to be as bright as the other keys, does anyone else have this problem?

 

Nah, by adapter I mean this bit:

 

don't worry its pretty normal.

 

Whats wrong with your M15x Villosa?
Also, typing from Boston right now, feels great to be american
Almost died while trying to eat a burger at Wendys, these are Huge O_O

 

so hows boston treating you soccer? having a good time bro.

 

I went to power it on this morning and it was dead ... This was after my alienfx controller died after a reinstall

 

I just sold my 128GB SSD, I was using the G Skill Falcon drive and it was awesome. The only downside was that 128GB wasn't enough space at all. I'll have to wait for larger SSD's to come down in price before getting back on the bandwagon. (E-Sata 500GB was just too much of a pain to carry around, its only a solution if your laptop is staying put).

 

thats a bummer bro, well at least now you can take everything apart to check it out, without worrying about damaging it.

yeah 160gb and not enough either, so i bought a 1tb western digital, slower but much easier to carry around, pretty awesome for something the size of a deck of cards.

 

Sorry to hear that man, it sucks having a shiny new toy die when you're just barely getting to know it Good luck with the tech though.

 

Villosa

Have you tried the classic troubleshoot stuff?

Inap
Pretty cool, the city itself is sweet, the stuff we're doing is pretty lame though Historical stuff... Oh well tomorrow's gonna be better, going to cambridge
The only downside so far, the traffic... >.>
My M15x just went nuts for 15 minutes, didnt start at all..
I got the battery out and waited for a while before rebooting.. Changed my Bios settings (I had modified them earlier..) and it works fine again.. still no AlienFx, so less wow-factor

 

by alien fx are we talking about the lights

also thinking of getting a g2 intel however is there any news on g3 are they worth the wait.

 

Hey fellas, does any of you still play Crysis or Crysis Warhead? If you do, may I know what version of nvidia driver you found best fit?

 

Man I hope my tech won't mind coming over and seeing that I already took everything apart. I really don't want a stranger touching my stuff...lol.

Crap, will I get in trouble?

Plus I got that opitcal drive HDD caddy I gotta install in there while I'm at it. lol

 

Hey guys i'm really torn between the M15x and the M17x, i have a couple questions about the M15x

1. How much better is the M15x 9-cell battery in things like basic web surfing and taking notes compared to an m17x with a single 5870 and one hard drive? Whats the longest run time anyone has experienced?

2. Are the speakers on the M15x the same as the M17x or are they not quite as well regarded?

3. I've seen both in this vid YouTube - Alienware m15x - new gaming treasure but how does the M15x "feel" compared to the M17x? Would the 3lbs really make a difference or are both pretty un-portable? Kind of hard to explain but would it feel a lot lighter in a backpack or is it kind of negligible since there both really big? Thanks

 

I can only answer 1 - but in light use I get about 3 hours. In heavy use 1h30m or thereabouts.

 

Meh, yeah the difference is barely noticeable once in the backpack. It sure feel a little lighter, but it is also smaller..
Cant tell the speakers difference.. I never really use them, ear buds/headphones
For the battery, well thats a 33% increase over the 6 cell, I can last about 100 minutes on battery, watching a movie or playing lights games, so You can expect to get more like 135 mins out of the 9 cell.
If you are just surfing, you can last much longer... Turn off alienfx, speakers and screen luminosity, you can last easily 200 mins!

Nah there is no chance of voiding your warranty when you are opening your computer, thats Alienware's good side!
If you wanna make sure you can always give dell a call, the tech support will help you going through the troubleshooting's steps..!
I once had my computer unresponsive for 2 days, called a tech guy, he was coming on monday, got it fixed in a matter of hour with this forum helping out!

Yep Alienfx is the lighting system!
The g2 intel are worth it, but the G3 definatly are coming, in about a year the new SSD will be cheaper and better, encrypted in 22nm or something, you should see a great difference.. But for now the INtel are the way to go, along with the OCZ stuff.

 

I've found irfree.com and scenetube.net to be fairly safe sites to download from.

Edit: Oh, and if warez-bb is down you can sometimes find info at blog.warez-bb.org.

 

thanks again smeggit

 

hey guys what u think of the samsung ssd MMDPE56G5DXP-0VBD7

guy has a new one will sell locally to me for 375 its 256gb model is the one posted. Just don't know if it has trim and how it compares to intel.

Also have u guys seen the sandisk G3 series those look nice to a 10 year warranty

 

woohoo M15x out for delivery

 

Just wanted to drop by and say hello. I'm new to the forums and a new owner of an M15x, just ordered yesterday. I had a couple questions I would like to ask. I'll be honest I'm not really the most computer savvy guy, I get by with just the basic knowledge about them. But I love to game and that's why I got the M15x.

Anyways my first question was when it arrives what should be the first thing I should do or what should I look for? I didn't have them install McAfee because I hate their AV on my desktop, only reason it's on their because it's an old computer and it's free from Comcast. But I don't want my M15x ever touching it so, what good AV software would you guy recommend? I'd like to purchase this now so I can have it ready to install on my system when it arrives.

That's all my questions. I can't wait for it too arrive, it's my first Alienware system. This is what I got. Let me know what you guys think?!

Item Number Quantity Item Description Unit Price Extended Price


224-6811
1 BASE,NBK,ANW,GRAY,M15X $2,500.00 $2,500.00
317-2398
1 Intel Core i7 820QM 1.73GHz (3.06GHz Turbo Mode, 8MB Cache)
317-2401
1 6GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz 1 x 2048MB + 1 x 4096MB
320-0936
1 15.6-inch Wide FHD 1920x1080 (1080p) WLED
320-0938
1 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
341-9753
1 320GB SATAII 7,200RPM
330-6174
1 Personalized Nameplate
330-6106
1 Personalized Nameplate Trigger
313-8791
1 AlienFX Color, Mars Red
421-1590
1 Alienware Command Center Software
421-1400
1 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
420-9691
1 DataSafe Local BackUp 2.0 Basic
420-6436
1 PC-Restore, Dim/Insp
421-1586
1 Alienhead Chrome Red
410-1883
1 ADOBE READER 9.0 MULTI- LANGUAGE
313-8569
1 Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
421-1304
1 CyberLink PowerDVD 8.0 Software
421-1305
1 Nero 9 Media Burning Software
313-8944
1 5.1 Channel Audio
430-3774
1 Dell Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini Card
330-6348
1 Automatic Updates: On
312-0206
1 Primary - 9-cell (85Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
410-0191
1 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 - English
950-3339
1 3 Year Limited Warranty
905-4468
1 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Plus At-Home Service, Extended Year(s)
905-3017
1 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Plus At-Home Service, Initial Year
905-3182
1 In-Home Service after Remote Diagnosis , 2 Year Extended
906-0700
1 In-Home Service after Remote Diagnosis , Initial Year
421-1721
1 Soft Contracts,Banktec Care,Alienware
993-8582
1 Warranty Support,2 Year Extended
994-3730
1 Warranty Support,Initial Year
476-7773
1 Thanks for choosing Dell!
420-8653
1 LoJack Theft Recovery Softwarefor Laptops, 3 Year
991-1159
1 Bund. LoJack Theft Recovery - 3 Year DHS
993-8552
1 CompleteCare Accidental DamageProtection, Inspiron Desktop, 3 Year
421-1719
1 Soft Contracts,Consumer Complete Care,Alienware
468-5667
1 $50 Dell Promo Gift Card w/ Warranty Bundle - Arrives in 6-8 wks 90 day Exp.
430-0684 1 Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate
421-1597 1 Alien Red Glyphs
421-1360 1 Steam and Portal Factory Installed
330-5090 1 Thank You for Purchasing AlienWare
463-0742 1 Special Pricing Applied
* -DISCOUNT $75.84
* -DISCOUNT/COUPON APPL
* AW HIL




Subtotal: $2,500.00
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Tax: $0.00
Environmental Disposal Fee: $0.00

Total Price w/Discounts: $2,500.00

 

I don't mean to be a nerd, but it's actually a 50% increase! Going from 9 to 6cell would be a 33% decrease.

9 cells have 150% the capacity of 6 cells, not 133%

 

Nice Gratz, mine is supposedly going to get me a tracking number by tonight or monday.

 

I've been running Microsoft Security Essentials since it launched and can't complain. Btw its free.

 

Congratulations!

Regarding and AVirus, I use comodo since it's free, includes and firewall and an application firewall (defense+) plus some other fancy stuff. Very solid and configurable and very easy and simple (if you don't use defense+ and the firewall hehe)..

Check it out Firewall & Antivirus Software Suite - Internet Security | Comodo

McAfee is worse than the virus haha.

Also check out Malwarebytes for their AntiMalware app. It's nice, small and free and it finds practically everything and removes it 99% of the time.

The machine is a great desktop replacement. Solid performer and although it's not up to par with the desktop side of things, it's one of the best laptops out there. Pretty upgradeable too. Prepare to be fulfilled

 

Has anyone here "bought" photoshop cs4 online? I'm having some trouble with it, PM me if you have it.