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    Blue Ray Reader on M15X

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by leslienz, Dec 2, 2009.

  1. leslienz

    leslienz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Everyone,

    I have some questions to those who ordered the Blue Ray reader optical drive on the M15X.

    How well do you find the performance of the Blue ray optical drive in general? Is it noisy, laggy or skipping frames when playing a blue ray disc movie?

    If it had any of those problems stated above, how severe would it be? Would you still be able to sit through the movie and not notice it too much?

    If you had the choice to rebuild you're laptop again, would you upgrade the 8X slot to the blue ray reader again or spend the money on something else?

    Thanks
     
    leslienz, Dec 2, 2009
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  2. leslienz

    leslienz Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone? :O
     
    leslienz, Dec 2, 2009
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    I had one in my M15x review unit - it worked flawlessly. I played back Oceans Thirteen and there were no stuttering or audio problems. I put the disc in, opened the Cyberlink player, and that was it.

    Our full M15x review is here:
    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5360
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Dec 2, 2009
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  4. chrisb808

    chrisb808 Notebook Consultant

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    My unit came with a blu-ray reader as well. Worked fine, but had stuttering issues at first. Did a software update via Cyberlink and works great now. Looks awesome on the 1600x900 resolution as well :)
     
    chrisb808, Dec 3, 2009
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  5. oneabove

    oneabove Notebook Consultant

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    mine had the blueray rom in it and its been working good... the slot load mechanism is not that noisy in mine.. I have a mac book pro which makes a lot of noise while loading and unloading discs...
     
    oneabove, Dec 3, 2009
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