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    m11x Questions

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by bscyb, Mar 11, 2010.

  1. bscyb

    bscyb Notebook Geek

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    1st of all can it be shipped also to greece and if yes how much time they need to ship from the day i order it
    2nd the price is 799$ right?
    3rd if i only upgrade cpu to Intel® Core™2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz (3MB Cache) Overclockable to 1.73 GHZ and also upgrade the memory to 4 gb it will be good for gaming and have better specs that this laptop http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.908656&u=ASUS-A52JR-SX109V

    4th If i add to it an monitor for examble a 20 inch one it will have good display at the monitor or not

    that for me if anyone can answer this questions i will be very helpfull
     
  2. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Unless your going to be running virtual systems or doing synthetic benchmarking, then there is no need to upgrade the CPU, both are basically the same. The SU7300 allows you to run a virtual operating system in your native operating system. Such as Windows XP within windows 7. This would be done if you use older programs that don't work on windows 7. Other then that both CPU's are pretty much the same. The RAM is a better upgrade to 4GB. For normal activities such as gaming, itunes, watching movies, internet browsing, email ect 4GB is sufficient.

    I'm not sure on that Asus computer, but the Asus has a better CPU. So in that regards, the Asus wins. The M11x wins when it comes to portability due to it's smaller size. As far as GPU goes, I don't know how that ATI card compares to the 335M, but the 335M is a strong card and the output on a 20in monitor should be pretty good. Obviously games that run at high settings on the 11.6" screen may need the settings adjusted down in order to run on the 20" screen resolution.

    Also when ordering from greece, it all depends on where your ordering from. I would say expect to wait about a month or so.

    Also, I would use the money you save from getting the SU7300 to upgrade the HDD for more capacity. I have a 320GB 7200RPM drive in my M11x and it starts up pretty quickly and has a decent amount of storage space. Currently I have about 16 games installed with 100GB left.
     
  3. bscyb

    bscyb Notebook Geek

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    thanks allot for the answer
    i think im gonna better buy asus cause i dont need to w8 to get it and it also has better cpu
    but dunno maybe at the end im gonna buy m11x
     
  4. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Both would be good laptops, but it really all depends on your usage.
     
  5. bscyb

    bscyb Notebook Geek

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    i will use it for studies and for gaming
     
  6. HTWingNut

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    The GT 335M in the M11x is definitely a more powerful GPU than the 5470 though.