Besides the video card and lights, what makes the M15x so different from others?

I know the M15x's video card is powerful and it has a nice design to it... Is there anything else that it has inside that is differnt from others?

Im asking this question because getting extremely high speed downloads using wireless...I dont know how thats possible? I thought wireless internet is slower then internet with an ethernet wire connected to the router...

 

The battery life.

 

it has an alien head on it and it got an x9000

 

i said besides the video card and design.. how long does an average m15x last on high performance playing a power hungry game? using also a smart bay

 

Not anymore dude.. we are not living in Dial up modem age. m15x has a Gigabit wired network and a 54mbps wireless. Both of them are far capable of taking your network bandwidth without any issue (max 8mbps ???)

Unless you are directly hooked up with your ISP's Fiber optic backbone and getting over 50mbps speed you will not notice any difference. Other factors play a major role, like if you are on shared network.. how many other peers using the shared pipe and how much is the load on network.

I think apart from anything else, its the name which make it stand apart. Even though people know there are problems and limitations they still go for AW.. why? ..because thats what they want!

 

right now i am getting 130 mbps

PS did anyone see the new wireless card that AW is offereing ... 450mbps!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Screen shot???

 

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the wireless card offered for the M17.

 

yeah i believe so...it is the new intel wireless card

 

m15x/m17x: WiFi Link 4965 AGN (802.11a/b/g/draft-n) from intel
AFAIK, 300mbps bandwidth, which is ~35MBps.

M17: WiFi Link 5300 "Ultimate N" (802.11a/b/g/draft-n) from intel
AFAIK, 450mbps bandwidth, which is ~55MBps.

... yes, there's a difference between mb and mB/MB... bits vs bytes. that's why your ISP can claim 10mbps and you only ever see 1.2MBps, optimal. 10mbps = ~1.25MBps

the "Ultimate N" is advertised as "MIMO", or Multi-In, Multi-Out... a technology which uses several connections, rather than one, with standard cards.

According to specs, the 4965 is also equipped with "MIMO"...

In theory, MIMO should allow users to connect to a single network multiple times (increasing connection stability), or multiple networks. I havn't seen any evidence to suggest it does either of these things. to me, it works the same as any other networking card.

Worthy of note, the 450mbps limit is almost impossible to reach in a home-networking environment. most home networks will not max out 10mbps lines (same speed as 802.11b, the slowest format), though they are capable of 100mbps. to say that the wireless is "as fast" as the wired, is laughable. with the wired network capable of 1000mbps. more than double the speed of the wireless in the M17.

to give an idea...
10mbps = ~1.25MBps (most ISP's download speed limitations for end-users)
11mbps - 802.11b wireless. if you have wireless, this is pretty much the minimum.
54mbps - 802.11g wireless. the common, standard wireless
100mbps = ~12.5MBps (most home network speeds)
300mbps = ~35MBps or so... (802.11n draft 1)
450mbps = ~55MBps or so... (802.11n draft 2)
60 to 90MBps - the aproximate transfer speed of most harddrives (hardware limitation, not drive-bus)
1000mbps = 125MBps (gigabit ethernet - wired)
150MBps - SATA version 1 standard drive bus (found in all modern computers as a minimum)
300MBps - SATA version 2 the current standard.

as you can see, even doing direct drive-to-drive transfers, it's nearly impossible to even touch the capacity of these types of connections without using a high-speed drive array (raid 5 or 9, for example), on a LAN PC or server.

such configurations are extremely rare in home-based environments simply due to the sheer cost of creating such an array. RAID 5, I believe, requires 4 or 5 disks to work properly... though, I think that recently there have been implementations of only 3 disks... Still, a Harddrive controller capable of RAID 5, plus three identical disks, just for speed you'll likely never be able to use. (since you'd need somewhere that could write that fast). nevermind the internetworking hardware in between (Cisco systems Aeronet 1250 is 802.11n draft 2 certified, average cost is over $1000 per unit)

point is: actually achieving a speed of even 300mbps across a home-based network is incredibly hard.

 

the best thing about the m15 other than the flashy lights, is the fact that not everybody has one.

 

I would say hot swap that it can use 2 hard drive not one. Two batterys.

 

Yeah it has the Smartbay thing

 

shake had an AW m15x....so why is he even asking this?

 

because he's shake...

 

touche (add the thing over the 'e')

 

touché (FTFY)

 

The hinges crack, lan port bulges or cracks, customer service nightmares and no on site warranty.

 

lan port crack has happened exactly twice so far, CS isn't all bad, Roswell for example is brilliant. as for the warranty and the hinge crack, yeah that kinda sucks.

 

You have the CC, the stealth mode, the smart bay, the GPU availabilities, HDMI (which as of now could be a plus or a minus), 15inch laptop that has all this stuff ...

 

no E-sata, which is lame lame lame.

 

yeah i would have appreciated esata....
also some spdif and optical would have been nice or like actual surround channels