*OFFICIAL* Alienware M11x Owners Lounge - Part 2

lol far from settled..

you played mass effect 2 ?
my last save was in citadel
i walked around this city max fps was like 56
mine was like 37 mainly around 42-48

it is hard to compare when the game have so many area.>>

 

Green for now while playing MW2.

 

Its settled for me. You can derive your own conclusions rite? Anyone have any opinion if the fan light should be put on or left off?

 

why should it be left off? although you hardly gonna notice it anyway.

btw white for the alienhead logo is a must!

 

i really cant follow up this blazing speed thread. its like VIRUS!!!

now im fully depending on the creater of this post to update the 1st page if there is any infos

 

I've got silver so the white on the head might not be visible... Save some battery power? LOL

 

Oh hi quest. Lol, poor you. Its like a live bucking horse who had one bucket of Gatorade too many. Yeeeehaw!

 

It's very difficult for me to feel or get a sense of how big this machine actually is.


1) I heard it was created with an A4 paper in mind, and that two DVD Boxes laying next to each other could fill out it's footprint. But it looks like it's curved grills, and it's battery that sticks out the box suggets otherwise.

2)The M11X looks very Obese. When I look at it, it looks like my 13''.


Does anybody have pictures were it's laying next to a 12'' or 13'' for comparrison? It's bezel looks quite big.

I am just wondering if it will be small enough if I want to have something smaller yet powerful from my current 13''.


EDIT: Also do you think there is a size difference between the UL30 Asus and M11X? Since the first one is 13'' and has a slip less than a n inch profile with no DVD drive too... Will M11X still be significantly smaller when the screen is two inches less?

 

Agreed - folks, please start posting all order status related posts in the order status thread. I've noticed several of these here and not in the order status thread (This will help a little bit).

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=456131

Please pass the word on as many will miss this.

Thanks.

 

http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/...28/a-brief-history-of-the-alienware-m11x.aspx

Vid on the site had the m11x compared to a PC Gamer mag and is placed next to its bigger brothers too.

And yes. it is a very big device for 11" but being slim wasn't part of its marketing campaign, was it?

 

Thank you.

So what are the chances that Core i7 will be a CPU Possibility in M11X in the future? And when?

The problem is that the games I like to play(TF2, CSS, HL2, WoW, MMOs, GTA4 and so on) are much more CPU dependant than GPU dependant.

I've heard that Core i7 for Notebooks will have the same power consumption as the CULV... So what are they waiting for?? go go go?

 

Darky here said sometime in Aug/Oct, but as many have said, the performance diff isn't all that big (about 10%-20% methinks IF I have not read wrongly) since the ULV iX cores are seriously nerfed anyway. Normal iX cores chug up much much more power than their ULV brothers. And Dell claims among the games the m11x can run smoothly, GTA4 is one of them. As for them not using the iX, heat and cost could be the main issues, nobody really knows.


EDIT: one of the retailers around here said he's run WoW on the m11x outputting at 1080p reso so Wow would be a non issue as well.

 

Woot.

Just picked up a second 128 gig G.Skill Falcon SSD (Indilinx controller) for US$ 200.

Couldn't justify US$ 400 for the 2nd gen Intel X25-M 160.

It will see duty in my soon to be ordered M11x. Oh yes.

@Eggs - how do you think the first gen Indilinx controller fairs against the 2nd Gen Intel's, dollar for dollar ?

 

This thread is crazy everytime I refresh it there is another page.

 

Are there any critiques about the hinges or build material yet? I'd imagine in outside is plastic?

 

Really? Nah its called enthusiasm. Nice to see you've ordered one too Which colour did you get?

 

Reviewers have kept mentioning it feels solid but hard to tell without having the device to "test".

 

Hopefully solid means some sort of alloy.

 

We can always ask Darky right? Daaarky? Is your m11x made out of alloy? Or plastic?

 

Well I know it has a magnesium chassis, but does that mean strictly the inside or is it the outside as well?

 

The alloy chassis is inside.

 

Ah ok. So most likely the rest is plastic then.

 

Most likely, but probably to keep the price and weight down.

 

I suppose I should hope it's not area-51 m15x plastic lol

 

If only Darkhan would answer us...

 

I'm guessing that the M11X build is similiar to the M17X where the top is allminum or magniesian, but the bottom is plastic. The hinges will likely not be an issue, and it will be the same plastic as the M17X. I just hope the touchpad doesn't have the same texture as the M17X, although it's not that bad once you get use to it. I just hope touchpad drivers are better then M17X and the arrow isn't real laggy.

 

Sounds just about right. Now we wait. Seems that wingzee would be the first to get it...

 

The M11X is going to be my M17X mini me, Although I'm still going to chuck it at the first girl that calls it "cute." Cuz I got complete care j/k...maybe

 

Would you chuck it if the gal happens to be the one in your pic? I would change all the AlienFX colours to bright red and say "Mr Alien ain't too happy with what'chu just said" with my best sheriff accent.

 

at that price you definitely made the right decision.

Only question is whether or not an extra 32 gigs of better utilized space in an intel G1 wouldve been worth another $100, if not then again, you made the right decision.

indilinx drives are good, it's just that intels are better. I'd rather pay $100 less for good in some instances though rather than shell out for better.

 

new cpu in august??? dont you think it will take only a few months???..

when do you think there will be a new graphicscard??

will there be a 13" alienware also???

 

The difference is USD200 unless the crab I just ate is making my math all woozy

 

Nope, a trusted source said by then, and we trust em. Speculate all you like but when an insider we trust says so, he's usually right. He called the release date down to the day.

New GPU... Nobody's complaining about the GT335 being "un-enough" yet so I can't see why they should change it unless DX11 becomes standard. Not anytime soon

13'' very unlikely. It would be too close to the M15X in terms of form factor.

 

100 more for g1 on ebay, its better than an indilinx but lower than a g2 although most people dont consider g1s anymore

 

Ooohhh... Ok. I'ma gonna have to wait unless I walk across a briefcase with a milion USD in it.

 

Ay I just noticed this. What is a "Genuine Windows 7 With XP Mode Installed" doing on my order receipt? I'm sure I didn't upgrade my Win7...

 

haha, nope, if that were the case, i'd chuck it the other direction and be like "Hey I'm Dan, what are you doing right now? Let's get out of here." Then I'd put lo-jack to use lol, I should probably get lo-jack...

 

nice. Another reason for you to get lo-jack. ROFL. One nets you a hawt gal the other gets you 25 mil and the most wanted man on earth. You should make lo-jack ads mate.

 

Wait so people are getting their m11x this week?

 

My estimated delivery date is still telling me Thursday, but they still haven't taken payment from my account. I'd be very surprised if it was delivered on time :]

 

Awesome. Thanks for the reply.

Is the intel g1 still better than the Indilinx's with the latest FW's?

I'm ignoring Sequential R/W here, as I know with regular wiping that's where the Falcon is insanely fast, but thought it would have the edge on the intel g1 SSD's for random I/O's and 4k R/W.

I suspect I may turn this Falcon into a Vertex with their latest TRIM firmware which seems to be quite good (considering the drives are identical sans label on the outside)

Always like getting something for a great price, nevertheless.

 

wooot.... I'm wondering if wiping the HDD and reinstalling windows would make me lose the cool login screen...

 

i've read somewhere that the Alien Fusion will not work anymore once you have your HDD wiped out. anyway, it might still be due to its incompatibility with Win 7.

 

T_T so no reformatting shenanigans? Aw crud.

 

The bloatware on there is apparently minimal anyways so a format isnt really necessary. Plus, it will come with restore dvds anyway so if you do wipe it then you can restore it to how it was from the facory..

 

Yea, but what if you wanted to make a partition? One OS and one storage?

edit: nvm, you can install the factory disk onto the OS partition.

 

Alienware's have minimal bloatware? Ok then, thanks for the heads up.

EDIT: Does the m11x ahve all the alien stuff from its bigger brothers?

 

Okay - here's another question to debate:

I believe the Qualcomm gobi card option makes use of the QC MDM1000 chipset which does not appear to support HSPA+ speeds of 21mbps.

In South Africa, the mobile carriers are launching HSPA+ network upgrades in time for the world cup and speeds have recently been tested and seem to offer excellent bandwidth and throughput, averaging out at around 15mbps depending on proximity to the cell towers, with excellent on network ping times of 20-30ms, which they will be pushing for mobile gaming.

Firstly, if you don't go with the gobi option it appears no antenna is pre-installed, so I guess that's a prerequisite for true mobility and connectivity on the go.

Secondly, does anybody know if another type of wireless card can be fitted in place of the gobi module. My research doesn't sound to promising at this stage.

Guess an external USB tethered offering from Huawei with HSPA+ support may be the next best option.

/sigh

 

Exactly. The 335m is waiting on the SU7300 and (example) the i5 in the CW27X is waiting on the 330m.

Perfect match seems to be opposite of what each has. 335 seems overkill for the M11x and the 330 is underkill for the CW27X. Ironic.

Note I put "seems" for the 335m, since some games actually leverage the physics function on the GPU. Games that use the GPU for this function do not need the cpu as much. Big win for the M11x with those games.

 

A little DIY might be needed if you really dislike a USB modem sticking out from your m11x everytime you use mobile bband, but if you don't relish "undressing" your pc, then that would be your only choice.