**Official Alienware M11x Owner's Lounge**

We all are hopping for Feb 2, if not earlier

 

"sometime feb" is the official statement so soon either way!

 

Yes, and yes.

 

Not sure why 8GB of DDR3 RAM would help with an SU7300 but...

Well, would you see a performance differance?
That said, even though i've read through both the owners thread and the debut thread, has anyone mentioned if overclocking is supported?

 

I think it would benefit working in 3d applications.

 

Nah I think 8GB would be really difficult to utilize with only a 1.3GHz CPU... even though its a dual-core.

If you were doing virtual machine or something maybe... but I still think 4GB is going to be just the right amount... Would be interesting to see the difference in benchmarks between 8GB and 4GB on the same M11x

EDIT: That doesn't sound the way I intended it to sound... you can definitely use up 8GB if you have some crazy-big programs running or virtual machines, but I don't think for the most part you will see a huge improvement beyond 4GB.

Thats better

 

Raydiddi hasn't replied back yet. The machine must have been too awesome. Lol

 

10 rupees on him lying about the M11x

 

lol, not lying. I received my HP Envy today, ahead of schedule. I have been cracking out on it all night. I will be spending quite a bit of time with the M11X tomorrow so I will keep all of you on pins and needles informed. I might even attach a photo if my bud will let me. I will for sure if Jannas wants to make that bet a little larger

 

Fine! 100 rupees for a photo displaying Oblivion on the m11x. Timestamp with your name is nessesary

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44124&stc=1&d=1264848214

I know this doesnt do much for you guys, but this is what I was sent the day I found out a bud had it. I promise it's the M11X

 

I wouldn't waste my time with oblivion, plus I don't have it. BF Bad Company 2 Beta baby!!!!!

 

Actually, just looked up the new Envy 15. Thats one hell of a laptop. God bless the technology age

 

they run really really hot from what i hear, so hot it actually burns your wrists when typing on it.

 

HP has utterly destroyed voodooPC, all their voodooPC computers look like the rest of what HP sales, no style of it's own. I am using a dv4t I got my wife, it has a T9400 and a 9200M GS in it, and you would think I would be able to play a tower defense flash game on it for an hour without it starting to burn your hand, but no. I was in forensics class the other day and after playing for an hour an a half my temps were through the rook, gpu was 95c and cpu was at 90... I won't buy another HP.

 

Sure it can . Sorry for taking a while to update the main post, I was busy preparing for the spring semester.

Anyway, if there's anything that I've missed, please let me know guys! Send me a PM and I'll do my best to keep this thread up to date!

 

Hmm, wearing a firesuit to play Crysis on high or dealing with Alienware customer support. Difficult decision

 

Faf !! u mean u dont like the idea of playing crysis in a firesuit ?!?!

EDIT: @ nuke - what was wrong with it ?

Question: are people expecting to be able to play Bad Company 2 on the m11x ?

 

@ash = better edit that off before a mod dished out the smackdown.

@raydiddi = Zats a lotsa plastic. Wanted the Envy too but the price and the heat issues kept me away. Beautifully designed device though.

 

you should know that pentiums are updated with most of the architecture features.

most(all?) pentiums for sale now use a derivative of the core architectures(not exactly derivatives, but they implement most of the same features,just less efficiently)

pretty much, you're not getting 1990s tech, you're just getting what amounts to the prototype of last gen's tech. not great, but definitely not 6-years-old bad.

 

awesome dude. do list the specs you were sent. pic of the Power supply would rock and if you have time, some benchmarks!! =D please of course

 

Hm, I'm getting hopeful. Do you have bad company uno to do a benchmark on?

 

It would probably clear the air on whether the CPU becomes a bottleneck of sorts.

 

BFBC1 was not released on PC, just consoles. But a BFBC2 test would be nice just to see how it runs

*Edit* thanks for answer my questions people, appreciate it since I'm following this thread like it stole my baby.

another question to those current alienware owners. I was looking at a vid of the keyboard of hte M11x, next to F12 are two keys, one with a spaceship on it, and to the right of that one says AlienFX. What do each of those buttons do if they're on the M15/17x

 

If it runs like a charm, then there's an even greater reason to buy it right?

 

to me the fact that there's no docking station for alienware is a killer... impossible to keep playing games in a 11.6'' for long hours...

 

It's called an EXTERNAL MONITOR.

You know, the kind they plug into desktops...

They fit in the M11x too.

 

Amazing answer !

I read the thread everyday since it has been created

Just waiting for the bench and photos !

 

I'm aware of that. I picked the figure "6-years+" out of the sky. Sure if I was to refer to the introduction of the actual naming system "Pentium" I'd have said 16 years+. To all intents and purposes, it's sufficient. But it's still old technology, and I don't want it.

To all the people that are saying the difference between C2D and Core i7 is minimal and that the CPU is "irrelevant", who are you trying to convince? Yourself? There are a few members here (including myself) who will not be purchasing the M11x because it has a C2D CPU, and I know for sure that nothing will change our minds until a ULV Core i7 variant is released. So you can post and post until you're blue in the face, it's not going to make one little difference!

If you're trying to justify the purchase for yourself, then by all means, continue, but don't direct it towards us! We've made our minds up!

I want the fastest processor available. I won't just use my portable for playing games, I'd like to do maybe some video encoding / photo editing all with two or three programs open in the background; downloading, browsing the web, virus scanning, backup etc. For these tasks, I'd much prefer a dual-core HT Core i7 that turbos to 2.26GHz rather than a dual-core non-HT C2D that runs at 1.3GHz. Not to mention the 4MB cache vs 3MB, DMI vs FSB, 32nm vs 45nm...

 

Sounds right to me. So you wait, and lemme grab the first few off the line, orrite?

 

El oh el. You just laid down dah smackdown... Hahahahaha. HDMI and Displayport so no shortage of options. Gonna try to get a 23-ish incher to use when gaming in my hostel room. Hehehe

 

Hey guys look at this

http://www.qvc.com/cgen/render.aspx?qp=promo|Alienware&rewrite=no&ref=DAC&cm_ven=ALIENWARESOCIAL&cm_cat=ALIENWARE&cm_pla=IGNSITE&cm_ite=SOCIAL

Saw it on AlienwareBook in facebook..

 

thanks Eugene, I think that's for QVC themselves maybe they'll now be carrying AW products. No mention of M11x, but my guess is they'll be stocking that too and it'll be after the week so the M11x will have already been launched.

 

Next week. Next week. Next week. All points to next week.

 

I hope its February 3rd hmm in Dell Malaysia means 4th February.. LoL
Due to the time zone difference.. i think.. lol..

 

Yea 16 hours difference. Will be scouting the Dell online store from the 2nd onwards.

 

Check Dell sites from the 2nd of Feb for M11x

It is a beast of a machine for the size.

 

Dell doesn't charge your card until it ships right? Lol, my big payday is Feb. 5th, but I'll be wanting to place my order the day it releases.

 

Dell will charge you before it ships. System wont be downloaded until payment is confirmed.

 

Downloaded? So say I order on Feb 2 or 3, they'll charge card then?

 

Yeah as soon as it gets to order processing team they will charge you.

Keep in mind stock is very limited on launch

 

Holy cow halo where do you get your information???

EDIT: How soon can we expect the system if we order it the moment its put up and when will the order page be up?

 

Stock is going to be very limited on release but should get it within 1-2 weeks.

I have full launch system specs here

 

lol at this guy..

 

I have a question about the screen. Is it LCD LED like a lot of the netbooks today or is it LCD TFT? Does anyone know?

 

The HP ENVY 15 (on battery) has a locked multiplier of 7x. This locks it at 931mhz. That is a problem HP knows about and has stated that they designed it that way. Its like buying a Corvette with an Aveo engine. Unless, of course you are ok with revving it up in your garage.

 

i just remembered an issue someone brought up earlier in the thread about recovery disks and i dont think anyone answered it yet...how will this work without a disc drive? i know the norm is for the recovery software to come preinstalled on the hard drive but what if the laptop fails to startup some day and you need to recover..

 

I think you can make a flash drive recovery key or using a SD card or something like that. I heard someone else doing something like that but I can't remember on which thread it was. If I find the thread I will post a link, but you could try searching or googling something about recovery OS on a flash drive or SD card. Maybe the m11x will come with a recovery partition already on the hard drive. Who knows yet. Maybe Raydiddi will be able to tell us for sure.

 

I actually had an Envy 15, the Canadian version they sold at Best Buy. I took it back twice because it just runs too hot. Not only do the wrist rests get extremely warm (uncomfortably so), the laptop vents out the left hand side. It's like having a space heater with you on the couch. Worse, at work it sat to my right, so it roasts me while I type!

Twice when I had to run to a meeting and didn't hibernate the system before sticking in my backpack it heated up so much that it shut itself down to avoid damage... in 8-10 minutes! I will admit I had it set to do nothing with the lid closed (don't hibernate) but it should still be able to survive in a roomy backup for 8-10 minutes!

It was powerful enough to run Age of Conan on low to mid settings though! Not bad. The M11X looks like it will score similar 3D mark points (based on its position on the notebookreview mobile video card ranking list), but with a lower resolution screen (better for gaming on fixed GPU power) and better form factor I'm glad I took my Envy back!

 

yeah that seems like the only way...recovering from a flash drive, i googled it but the answers i found on various forums are very vague..it doesnt seem to be that common