The Official m15x Owners Lounge

dude its in the thread at the top, the sticky thread. In calexico!! wtf is it doing out there?? did you have it delivered to your parents house? oh and how are midterms btw?

 

!!! thanks lol so blind . Yeah umm my uncle used it as a company expense so I didnt have to spend a dime, So yeah item had to be shipped to the business for safety reasons . As for midterms everythings good! my animation class with brice is kind of lame though... I dont even know why I need to learn that haha Dont want to be an animator you know? just want to design 3D and do sum concept WooT!

 

lol, bryce.... He is a little um. crazy, but good. He worked for disney.

 

check it with CPU-z

 

please, let us know if there are light leakages or something! let us know how the colours are in your opinion! a little bit less brightness is not so awful! the important thing is that the colours are unifom, that there's no light leakage where there is the backlight, even if you watch it from angles, and finally that it has good visual angles!
please let us know

 

blarrrrrrrrrrgggh

 

The patch is great, but why cant I find it on Alienwares site??

 

You won't find it cause they don't want us to have it. There planning only to give it to certain people. Now the secrets out and I bet their going to be pissed.

 

why do you think this?

 

Do you guys think it's possible alienware will not release the 2.0 & the 2.2 processors for the 8800 GTX? Like offer the 1499 model w/ just the 8600-8700. I've been pondering this because usually with alienware products, as I recall, theres usually only 3 processor upgrades max. Maybe I'm mistaken, have similar marketing type things happened with alienware in the past? just curious, thx

 

in europe you can choose also T7500 with 8800GTX, but you can't choose T7700! only T780 & T7900

 

o rly!? thats interesting to know.

 

That is a cool program. Thanks! I'm good to go..

 

I dunno, but I got mine w/ a 2.2 processor... ordered it off the botched site, so was able to customize pretty much everything.

 

To those that bought the higher res screen, any regrets? How are games running with the higher res? Text too small or anything like that?

 

gaming very nice thus far on hi res screen... very crisp graphics. I was afraid that text would be harder to read but have not found this to be the case while gaming. View angle is also very good. No light leakage issues here either with side light patch.

 

so the 1920 is a good screen! can you check the brand & ID of your screen with everest?

 

Cool, thanks so much!

 

No, this is completely false. AW has now made this patch official. If you search under the knowledge base the term "light pipe" you will receive a result which links you to the patch.

 

Well I posted that before I realized that they had made it official. I'm glad that they finally came clean.

 

I know, I was just sayin that the theory turned out to be wrong -- though I may have been a little harsh in my tone, which was unintentional

 

No problem

 

hurrah got my Alienware m15x as of Feb 8th 2008! and it came with light up side panels wooo!

 

When did you order? I am just curious what kind of time mine might take. It said that the light up keyboard was going to delay my order.

 

same, the keyboard is what's delaying my order, I ordered it almost a week ago and its suppose to ship on Feb 28. it'll be almost a month, before i get mine

 

I ordered mine on Jan 21 and had it on Feb 5.

 

I ordered mine on Weds (Feb 6th) and it said Feb 28 for mine too. Maybe they will get an early shipment of the keyboards? *crosses fingers*

 

@ Dawnkeeper Funny thing is I ordered mine the day it was available to order on the alienware website. I stumbled onto it by accident (was gunna order a m9750). Then i saw this lil beauty. I sat there for a good 3hrs wondering if i should place an order. Then it hit me i aignt luggin around a 17inch notebook so bam ordered it. Said my lil friend was suppose to arrive on the 4th of feb when i completed the order (arrived on the 8th of feb), but hey it aignt perfect and i totally understand since i live in Hawaii.

 

I just wanted to respond to this opinion.

Think about it dude, two 15inch screens, one at 1440 and one at 1920 both displaying the same game image. The enemies are the same size. There are just more pixels drawing him.

Take two identical photos and display them at the same size. One has 1Megapixel and the other has 6. The image is the same only less resolution. I went for the 1920 because I need the real-estate.

True it is pretty high-density for a 15inch, but that could only add to the realism of games that run full speed. I'm not only playing new games like the Witcher and Crysis, but it will benefit my older games like Eve-Online and almost every program I use from premiere, photoshop etc.

When my eyes are tired I can lower the resolution and the slight blurring won't bother me personally. In many cases with good AA and AF as long as the game runs at a solid 60 fps the resolution can become much less important to the visual experience. Preference is personal of course.

 

I bought my system friday and the estimated ship date is February 28th 2008. I am also new to this system, but I thank everyone who put this section together this kinda inspired me to buy the notebook.

I have a question though; is it a mistake that I bought the WXGA or is that in your opinion a better choice than the WUXGA? I just the WUXGA didnt have ClearView while the other or should I upgrade if I plan to watch HQ anime on it?

Thanks

 

I totally agree. This will be awesome for digital painting and texturing as well.

 

So The Light Pipe" Pach enabled the side lights on all M15X? And the LED light Was On The Lid All The Time?

 

put simply, yes

 

Yey! got the light pipes to work..!!

 

YES! I CALLED ALIENWARE SALES AND ASKED THEM ABOUT THE BLACK SKULLCAP FOR THE m15X. GUESS WHAT THE GUY SAID?

"It's coming SOON."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Their headquarters has told them that it's coming soon but they don't have an exact date.

More importantly, I asked the guy if it could come before the end of February, and he said yes it very well could! (but no guarantees, of course)

omg!!!! How exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Also: Why do we need a patch for the side lighting? Didn't they already work? MrWater's laptop had side lighting.... (see pictures on page 5 of this thread)

 

You'd have to read the thread about it. All laptops have the lighting now.

 

Can anyone with the 1920 screen just give a few words about your thoughts on it, I'm just figuring out what to order and I am giving serious thought to the higher res.

 

I was wondering what this sp1 deal was all about?? I dont have vista so I do not know what it is. I can only guess that it is a service pack??
And Why is everyone so stoaked about the skullcap lol, now you will have a computer that looks like everyone elses alienware.

 

Come on Guys lets get some Crysis vids on YouTube ....See how this box performs.

 

I bet this m15x pwns Crysis.

 

And I bet Crysis checkmates the mx15x and will make it cry. Unless youre talking about the lower resolution screen running the 2.8Ghz and everything set to medium.

My home system will just bearly make it stable at 1680x1050 with everything on high (not ultra) and I'm running a Quad 3Ghz, 8800gtx OC w/2gb ram. Tried it in both Vista and WinXP. Its playable but not ultra smooth. So I doubt this laptop will rock at the highest settings.

 

It will be another generation or two before anything can "pwn" Crysis.

 

by that time crysis will have bad gfx compared to other games.

anyone know dates bout black skullcap m15x?
damn that will be so hot with red lighting.

 

I have the M15x and Crysis makes it scream but it doesn't cry lol..

Running in DX9 I can average 22-28 fps with all seeting to High at 1440x900, in DX10 I lose about 3-4 fps..

But it is still quite playable. And I haven't changed any of the Config files yet.

 

My desktop runs it just fine on all high, and it's not any more powerful than yours.. (E6850 3.0Ghz, 8800 GTX, 2GB RAM).

 

Because I like it more then the ripely design? after all.. they are both Alienware's
Skull Cap stands out more.. looks more like a gaming machine with the high gloss black paint too.

 

Yeah, while skullcap may look like everyone else's alienware, ripley looks like everyone else's laptop -- which is to say, the skullcap design is still way more distinctive than the ripley look.

That isn't to say ripley sucks (well, obviously not, I bought it ) but it is undeniably more traditional, but for me personally I prefer that sleeker uncomplicated look. As I implied though, it's all just a personal choice -- I would've bought the m15x even if ripley weren't offered (still way better than the ugly M1730 I was *this* close to buying just because of a lack of options)

 

haha. There is no system that can play Crysis on everything max yet!!!
You really believed me when I said that the m15x would pwn Crysis? lol
It will run it well, but not on maximum settings. And for a 15" notebook this is the best performance you can get right now. And this m15x can easily outrun most 17 inchers. If it weren't for SLI in the 17"...so to speak.

 

oh yes there is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eP3Ifl9lpqQ

search "crysis ultra high" on youtube for more. Besides, if no system could play Crysis at ultra high, how could the developers make ultra high? They wouldn't've been able to test it

 

yes there is... it was a quad sli 8800 gtx with octocore c2d or something like that. but its been done


Edit: I lied... it was tri sli...