[-OFFICIAL-] Alienware M17x Owners' Lounge

will dell do the upgrade for me?

or must I buy the parts and fix it myself?

 

Right. What's next, MXM 4.0?

The answer really is, maybe, maybe not.

 

Exactly , I always tell people when buying a notebook , buy it for what it has to offer now and not what you think it has coming down the road or you may be sorely dissapointed , of course no one ever listens .

 

mmmm...mudkips

 

Is that an acronym?

Mythical creature.

 

I'll agree with Quadzilla and Rob41.

Chances are, the upgrade will only be similar to a minor one like from the 9800 to 260.. You will not see anything that you could throw into your notebook and prolong its life for another 3~5 years without a change to the motherboard, which is least likely for a company to do so.

I will not bother upgrading if I were you, period.

 

My first notebook that had a changeable Graphics card was a Dell inspiron 8200 , it had the Geforce440go64 meg which i later swapped out for a Ati Radeon 64 meg card . That feels like a million years ago now . I later had the XPS gen1 that went from a Radeon 9700 to a 9800 , then the Gen2 which was 6800 to the 7800Gtx , then the 1710XPS which was a 7900gtx to the 7950gtx lol. It was always a pain in the booty to get these parts and they cost me a bloody fortune lol but ill hand it to dell for giving my notebook some extra life and a few more FPS .

 

At least all the next gen GPUs are going to be 40-nm so there's less chance they blame not offering an upgrade on heat and power consumption problems.

 

Not to mention fun, IMO.

I always loved taking apart my laptop to perform upgrades

 

I usually prefer to do it once it's out of warranty.

With my M17 though, I changed the LCD panel the same day it arrived.

 

Next day shipping 4tw, 69 dollars isnt that much when I am already paying 3649.11 dollars for it, plus I get it faster !

 

Oh ya , ripping them apart and putting the new ones in was always a blast and especially seeing the end result .

 

Dell was always awesome about not voiding warrantys , when i had the Alienware 9750 i was afraid to even open it in fear of voiding my warranty . There was a time when you couldnt do anything to an alienware without instantly voiding your warranty but they seemed to have loosened up now which is great , it should be even better with this new one since it seems Dell is handling everything from the sound of it.

 

would it be possible to replace the M17x LCD with a Touchscreen LED?

that would make me super happy...

....another thing that would make me super happy...is something im not allowed to mention

 

sadly no ^^^^

 

With Dell, you don't have to worry about voiding the warranty.

I had Dell sending me, the end user, motherboards to replace in my 1730

They are VERY customer friendly when it comes to that stuff

 

good to hear since im dropping 2500 lol

 

Glad to hear Dell isn't An***y retentive about customers upgrading themselves.

I never want to send in a rig.

 

Tomorrow I'll have a full meeting with Alienware, but I didn't miss the chance to get some hands-on with this beast today at E3.

There were about ten of the new M17xs in the Alienware booth, which looked wicked cool, and it's an awesome machine. The build quality is incredible, extremely solid all around. The lid especially is very inflexible.

I attached one grainy pic for you guys, it was all I could get today but I promise more tomorrow night. Cheers.

 

so what do the vent looking things in the front do? is it just for show?

 

That keyboard looks superbright , very cool . Cant wait to here some more hands on.

 

Thanks Chaz!

Give us more!

 

those are the speakers if i'm not mistaken

 

speaker covers and pull some air maybe and design

thats it chaz you left us waiting for so long

 

i cant wait for alien FX

 

does alien fx have an option where the lights pulse with music much like the xps m1730 j/w i always thought that was kind of cool

 

no it does not...
not sure if findvikas made a program to do this in one of his great threads though.

edit: though not proven for this unit if it does or not, i take a guess of no.

 

What's next, a disco ball? lol

 

mmm...a rave within a laptop

me like

I'll go grab my kandi

 

I keep waiting to hear about an integrated projector.

 

That...would be....AWESOME.....and SUPER expensive xD

 

adddd heavy but maybe not with how small those pico projectors are

 

Right now when I go out on a ship I have to take my home projector with me.

I usually have just enough wall space in my room for a 8' diagonal picture.

 

LOL, thats actually a cool idea.

 

actually the lights do pules! if you go to the allpowerfull website and read about the keyboard it says they can pulse!

 

link?......

 

oo...why do you go on ships?

 

heres the photo

 

not all of us can see linked photos...attachments are much better...

 

i remember seeing that but forgot lol

 

It's how I make my living, I'm an engineer on Navy ships.

 

there ya go!

 

Morphing and pulsing to the rhythms?

Don't you have to be at least 18 to do that?

 

ohhh

that sounds awesome! always on the go...

 

That's why my wife knows I really do need a pretty powerful laptop.

When I'm on a ship, the laptop and projector help me maintain my sanity.

 

thanks...lol

i think the statement though refers to a pulsing similar to a holiday light that fades in and out, but no mention of ability to pulse with music.

when people get them, maybe they can confirm one way or another.

 

I still want to know what happened with the red cased m17x? You can see it in some of the pictures and in the behind the making of the m17x, which is oddly named quicksilver.

 

Take a look here.

I think there are some new photos among other things.

 

allpowerful.com doesnt load for me .. is it geographically blocking IPs? :S

 

i cannot access it from my network right now, but then again, the government blocks a ton of sites as it is...lol