*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owner's Lounge, *Part 2*

The one I tried has the larger shell. There are two shells with the G9.

 

yeah thats the one i use, and it still felt a little small...

 

To each his own I believe. Maybe it'd be best if our friend vek would try out the mice first and see which suits him best.

 

my own mouse is a razer deathadder. Got it for my first m15x and it's been amazing.. so comfortale and very stylish. Very accurate also.

@ Roxy: I actually like kevblah's idea of making a video too. Although I dont mean for you to be in it necessarily (no offense! lol) but rather to circle the laptop and record it beng opened and closed with closeups on the hinge (lol my own is so bad and it always was) and maybe you could bring the mic close to the fan ports so we can hear how quiet it is idling and at max load... stuff like that. No need to say anything or get into the video if you're shy... what i really want to see is more footage of it and an encircling view. it gives it a lot more dimension than static pictures (which by the way have been great! not dissing them at all ).

Just my two cents... i'm sure everyone else would enjoy that too!

 

yeah, i currently have a logitech laster mouse...i cant remember the number but its pretty good, i just dont like the fact that it takes batteries. i looking for a good blutooth mouse. do they take batteries by the way ?

 

I believe all bluetooth mice have batteries. This is to emit the signal to the laptop. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

looking at all the posts and pics of you guys who have yours making me jealous and impatient, i'm now into the 9th day of in production your so lucky roxy getting yours so quick and thanks for the pics i'm now checking order status 5 times a day to see if it changes...lol sad i know

 

Lol. At least yours is in production already. I have to wait for mine to get started since I need to be a Dean's Lister for my parents to buy me a top of the line one.

 

i'm from the uk i don't understand what you mean by "deans lister" sorry for my ignorance

 

Hold on Vek you got your laptop already or are you just buying a mouse ahead?

Hamsters are good mouses

JK

Personally I'm getting the Logitech Anywhere Mouse. Once I plug it in the USB never again have to worry about it because the receiver is tiny.


How's your order status btw Vek? Got a PO#?

 

I don't know whether to hate or love this thread. It has most of the info I could ever want but it makes me feel so jealous...I can't even get a default M15x unless I get top 5 in my year group and then I have to argue with my Dad to get the upgrades (SSD etc) I want...

 

Sorry mate. It just means a really high grade. Like you're part of the honor roll.

 

I feel your pain. I need really good grades for my dad to decide to get this laptop for me. If I meet his requirement, I will be given a budget of $4000.

 

Should finally be getting mine today

 

Congrats man. Hope you don't mind showing me the Windows Experience Index. Would love to see how well this machine performs.

 

to Nero Sparda 04 and Barman09

good luck guys hope you get good enough grades to get it
i'm just a sad 48 year old who had to pay the £2237 myself....lol

 

has anyone tried a display port to HDMI cable, does audio work through it?

 

if you look a few pages back i got some updated info in there for you.

and no i havent got my laptop yet, i was just inquiring about the mouse that roxy had, i thought it looked pretty cool. still looking to get a new one though.

 

Hey roxy

cool pics, like that purple and black, ordered mine in red and cant wait to get it
also ordered the tactx mouse, want to impress my boss if this thing starts to change colours he is an old fashioned guy....

 

to Nero Sparda 04 and Barman09

also from my side, all the best guys, fingers crossed, that you make it for getting it !

and i also keep it with mick21....40+gamer who spent almost 3500 $

 

I purchased a display port to hdmi adpater. Then I used an hdmi cable to go from there to my Television. I cannot get any sound from the television. I tried all kinds of settings but could not get it to work. Also, while the picture looks really good, it cuts of the screen so my desktop icons and partially hidden and my bottom tool bar is mostly hidden. When I ope up a progroam such as expoler, the top part of the bar is hidden in the top of the screen.So all in all I am somewhat disappointed in this computer because it does not do what I thought it would do, at least very well.

The 1920x1080 looks great except the programs I use such as Pokerstars does not fill the screen like my desktop did and the words are so small.I played with diferrent resolutions but they look crappy and over-fill the screen.

 

720, 4bg1066,SSD,gtx260

 

That sounds about right, I am getting the same scores except for the HD I am getting 7.4.

 

Hey, it was the same on my TV. I never got the sound working but I did fix the picture size. For me it was a setting on the TV changing the screen size from "16:9" to "Just Scan".

 

lighting shots

 

Thats really disappointing if you cant get sound!

 

howcome the card memory is 2810? so 240 is 512 x 2 and 260 is 2gb?

 

i also just noticed a setting in the nvidia control panel

manage 3d settings>
power management mode>

mine is set to adaptive by default. maybe anyone with gaming issues can try setting this to "prefer maximum performance" and see if it helps.

 

Well I will start benchmarking later today if I get some free time at work.

 

cool, finally got a chance to see the photos....that black looks nice, im glad i decided to go with it. and the purple is Really bright, looks real good.

 

Hi guys!

I am newbie here, but I've been reading most of this forum from part 1 to part 2. My M15X was already delivered to my sister's home since I am still working outside USA.

I remember my printed order also doesn't include the bluetooth mini card which I supposed it should be a default package base on Tech Specs of M15X
and it was not included in the customization by the time I customized mine last October 19, 2009 to be exact.

Now, my sister told me that in the control panel and device manager Bluetooth was not found.

To all those who are with the same situation like me, give us your comment please!

Hey ashvin88 do you M15X comes with BT?

Thanks!
my precious M15X Nebula Red
Intel Core i7 720QM
4GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz
15.6-inch WideFHD 1600 x 900
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM

 

Ryuken, someone posted that if you download the Bluetooth driver, it seems to work but yet does not show the bluetooth adapter. Do you have a bluetooth enabled device to see if it works? Would love to know, this is starting to get concerning for me, especially since I need bluetooth. oh, and congrats on your system!!


Edit: Hey Hawkeye, did your m15x come with bluetooth?

 

new ESD 18 nov, new EDD 20 nov.....im gonna push dell to see if i can get it for the 16 (esd) and the 18 (edd). hope they can do it.

 

Roxy - Thanks for the pics

Also - my M15x is on the truck out for delivery so I will have it in my hands when I get off work tonight!

 

i spoke to dell tech support on telephone about this in uk and he said he would get back to me after he finds out i got an e-mail yesterday saying that it has been checked by a tech guy and he had video and sound he says you have to go in sound control panel and make sure your output sound is put to the displayport i don't know if you have tried this if so i'm gonna be dissapointed to if it does not work as i was going to use it to watch blueray movies on my tv

 

Thanks Bubbamel!

The problem is I'm only guiding my sister to check everything and I know that there is no BT icon touch button to activate it(If there is what button?)
I think when you touch the wifi touchpad, both WIFI and BT will be activated.
I'm not sure of it. So where can we verify if BT is installed?
I also asked my sister to type on the window search the word "bluetooth"
and 0 search found. I will try again to check of the Device Manager to do " Scan for hardware changes if BT will pops-up. If not, better to install the driver and lets see how it works.

my precious M15X Nebula Red
Intel Core i7 720QM
4GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz
15.6-inch WideFHD 1600 x 900
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM

 

wooooo hoooooo!! Just received mine. First thoughts are very solid and sturdy design. Slightly larger than I expected, but I have been using a NC10 for 3 months so that was to be expected. Keyboard is awesome, and the lights are alot brighter than I thought they would be, and it is midday here.

On a side not, I have BT in my device manager and it works fine, but I am in the UK.

I'm off to play, and questions I am around all day so fire away.

 

happy for you jolliman i'm in uk to if you don't mind when did you order i'm still in in production for the 9th day

 

I cancelled and re-ordered, but my re order date was 23/10/09 so 12 days minus weekends was my time frame. It was in production for a long time, so as painful as it is waiting, it isn't anything too out of the ordinary (unfortunately).

 

The Alien lands later today.... Can't wait to get home!

Thats one sexy laptop Roxy. Nice pics.

I'll be sure to post some up as soon as I can.

By the way.... Anyone have problems with their m15x that shipped with win 7 installed????

 

That's a little sucky. I ordered mine the day before you and have an EDD of 16th (which I'm hoping will drop).

 

Does anyone who has 8GB of ram know what brand they got? I want to upgrade in the near future so any help would be appreciated.

Also for those who are looking for adapters, this is the best bang for the buck DP to HDMI check it.... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200368

 

This morning in my email box I received the following from Dell EPP.

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Save an extra $100.00 dollars on all EPP systems $1,000.00 or more enter coupon at check out. That’s a nice little perk for those using EPP, and with the additional 10% plus the 3% for Dell preferred this makes it a lot more compelling for those on the fence.


Just an FYI I used it on a pretty loaded system minus the SSD drive and the price was pretty attractive.

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@ froogle, i now... but i did order throught AAFES, it didnt get to dell until the 2nd. so im hounding them to pussh that date up.

it does suck, but it'll be worth the wait.

 

So. I just talked to dell about my problems (Dead pixel, Command center nok working even after two formats, And laggy Touchpad + keyboard).
And they told me they couldnt do nothing about it. What a wonderfull thing to tell me after waiting in the queue for more than 1 hour...

 

Ah that makes sense. I used the EPP to get a discount on mine and could have had my employer finance it as well. That would have added about 2 to 3 weeks to the delivery and I'm already feeling like Gollum waiting for his precious - there's no way in hell I could have added a few weeks to this process. It's killing me.

 

You know, the strangest part of the whole order/waiting game is the complete lack of energy you find once the order is placed. I mean I have to do on my current notebook, and it's up to the task, but I just don't want to. I want to get DragonAge and start playing, but I don't want to install on my existing notebook - I want my new one.

I have an article to write by this weekend as well, but I really really don't want to even touch my notebook now there's an M15X on the way.

Blah.

 

@ froogle,... i got a really good deal through AAFES (1910). i know what you mean about not wanting to do anything on your old laptop, but at least you can do something on it. i have a clevo D900T 17incher thats busted right now, thats what led me to look into getting the m15x.

if i had something to play games on i'd be satisfied, as the time goes by much slower when you dont, please believe. im currently on my desktop which compaq ice age version. (ice age version = really old) but im not complaining or anything.

 

Now was this technical service, or customer service? If one, does not help, call the other. They usually do not just say sorry, we cannot do anything. Have it escalated to a supervisor. Do not take no for an answer.