Spots to get a M17

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering where do you mostly get your m17/15? Is there anywhere special that you would recommend other than Dell/Alienware Website?

TIA

update: I had a new question regarding to graphic card upgrading in last post, thank you for helping me out.

 

what specs and how much are you looking to spend.

 

i want a high frequency cpu, I'm aiming at 2.93G, graphics can be moderate, single 260m would do for me. I configured at Dell/Alienware's website and it turned out to be around 2690 including tax, 2400ish without tax. I'm about to get it from their website, until I decided to come here and see where else everyone chose. Is the official website the only choice?

THanks,

 

Um ?

do you mean M17x ?

If so Dell is your best bet and they usually have plenty of discounts and coupons to help with your purchase.

 

OK. I'm gonna go ahead and put the order once my paypal transfer clears on Wednesday... Guess i'll try heard to find some coupon then.

 

You should call Dell and haggle a bit to get the price down. You'll usually get a better deal than ordering on the website that way.

 

Seriously??!! I thought all prices from sellers/big companies are not negotiable

Do you have a such experience? What should I say to them?? "would you offer me a better price?" or something like that?

 

Try to tell them that you've got a certain budget and there's another laptop you're seriously considering. (Generally best to choose a budget a couple of hundred dollars below the price on the web...and find an actual laptop to consider )

 

OK. I m gonna give it a try! And also, I was wondering if this is a right time to get my hand on a brand-noooo M17x? As I read and read, I realized, maybe, in 6 months, there would be another generation of m17x's? And maybe, just maybe it'll bring i7 with it just to compete with some models from Sager?

As much as I explored, I really do not game as much as most of other members do in this forum, I bet, and I simply want a super fast movable desktop when I do tons of things (I am a computer guy except for endless gaming, and I travel around the world times a year), so a desktop processor would really be a huge attraction to me...

What do you fellows think?

 

If you're contemplating buying a machine with a desktop i7 shoehorned into a laptop, don't fall for that. An old Sager I owned fit that very description, and it was itself solely responsible for global warming. Seriously, running an adapted desktop processor in a confined laptop space causes all kinds of heating and component early-wear issues. Laptops are not made to dissipate that kind of thermal overload efficiently.

Now, if you're talking about getting a mobile i7, then that's a different story. All kinds of conjecture abounds regarding when/whether the M17x will get the mobile i7. Personally, I don't see it happening in the next two months, which is my purchasing time frame. If you're willing to wait six months, then maybe. Of course, by then there'll be some 4GHz octo-cores that everyone will be frothing over, so buying the latest and greatest is a no-win proposition.

Whenever I get stoked about waiting for the next best thing, I take a look back at forum posts from 3 or 4 years ago and note the excitement of posters holding out for new technology upgrades. It really seems silly to hold out for something that may give you a two month advantage at best before something even newer is unveiled. If you have a 3 or 4 year usage time horizon, then two months of technical superiority is nothing, not to mention the potential bugs and high cost you have to deal with.

This is, of course, one Alien's opinion only.

 

dude, it's "Recommends" ...

 

I think that's totally true. As to i7, I was thinking about the desktop/current version running in some Sagers honestly, and it's good to know the problems you mentioned.

Not necessarily a machine that's very ahead of our time for me, but I hate when I just got my new P9600, a new version of machine comes out with lower price and a P9700!! And by the time I'm looking for an more up-to-date options offered for my current laptop model couple of days ago, I found that the model has been discontinued!! I hate that thing about Sager

 

guys i came up with a new question and I decided not to waste forum space by starting a new thread so I'm posting here. Should I be better off upgrading graphics later by myself? Or is it not possible to upgrade m17x's graphics on our own? (buying some new graphic cards and install them in.)

 

As i am told upgrading a laptop's GPU is very very difficult and risky, you're better off taking good GPU's and Processor but leaving out RAM and HDD as it is easier to replace these. I've never upgraded any part in a laptop myself though but i'll be upgrading the RAM on my M17 pretty soon.

 

Nice! Finally got 260x2, arriving tomorrow!!!

 

upgrading a GPU is not difficult and risky... it's easy to do so, the only things is hard to find and buy the GPU....

 

For anyone that wants to, this thread gives a general outline on how to do it: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=433721

 

Costo and Microcenter sell the Alienware M17x...

Just a thought...

 

That's a very useful post with informational link there! You made me to add a new bookmark to my firefox

 

I want to warn you, that you should probably not buy the M17x if you are into the whole "computers that work right" thing. I would wait to see what future driver and bios upgrades do to improve it if you want things like ssd trim support or like having your multimedia (or unimedia for that matter) processed smoothly.

 

TT you seemed to warn me a little too late, my laptop arrived already?!

Specifically, what issues were you talking about?