Totally New Dell/Alienware - Summer 2010? (Computex/E3?)

Ya i think im gonna place my order tomorrow if nothing happens, i can always cancel it if something does come up.

 

thammmmm. wheare you get tha idea from man?

 

Thats exactly what ive done........they can have it back if theres something major on the horizon! - i explicity told the rep this......

 

I hope some of the updates are that the m15 gets more cells in the battery, like 15 or something , and then also can get stock 5870 in there...... That would be nice....... Just sayin .


EDIT: Oh and an optical audio port, seriously no one uses anolog anymore, of that headphone jack surround sound.... too cumbersom.

The future for everything tech related is being able to hook it up to your home theater.

 

Yeah agreed optical audio would be great. Plugin in those 4 wires are just a pain. I hate it...

 

Alienware is putting me in a tough spot! I'm in a battle between them and Clevo. When I am willing to spend so much $, I do not want to compromise.

I want a desktop CPU, and potential nvidia offering (just for choice). I would go with Clevo, but I want the RGB 1920x1200 screen and better build quality-- also with my discounts it is cheaper to go alienware.

The compromise has made me consider a third alternative: Asus G73Jh! I figure if I can't get what I want by spending a lot of money, I might as well save a bunch of money and get something pretty decent.

I'm going to ponder over this more, but I'm slowly getting ready to just pull the trigger on the cheaper Asus. I just have a problem spending so much money if it isn't what I want.

So.. here is to hoping AW does some desktop CPUs!

 

E3 opens tomorrow. Most likely AW will unveil it's "new" stuff tomorrow early in the morning...

Let's see what happens...

 

can wait till tomorrow, I'm ordering one either way.

 

Wouldnt get too excited....

We've had like 3-4 reps say something is coming September and Joker saying a M18x is on the way but not anytime soon. If thats the case there would be no showing of a 480 SLI laptop at E3. There may be private off the record showings to VIPS's but we'd never get to see any pictures.

All that said I think Chaz might be able to come back and say, "Yeah something is definately in the works soon".

 

yea. most likely alienware will lag behind someone else in terms of GPU annoucements. clevo will have it's 480M sli, and a few months later, Alienware will have it. I'm not looking to get excited. If something awesome comes up, then it does.

 

That's not really a correct assesment either. DELL since it took over AW has released its Nvidia SLI cards the exact same time Clevo does. Being that a few resellers hinted at the x7200 being released late August, conceivably the new AW 480 SLI notebook from AW will release at the same time or a week later.

 

On the first day of E3,
Dell co. gave to me,
a 480m SLI capable lappy.

So, what did Dell have to offer today at E3? Anyone? I'm getting pretty close to pulling the trigger on an M17x, but if they release one with 2x 480m's the day after ordering I'm gonna be pissed.

 

E3 starts tomorrow, its only M$ that had their confrence.

 

It looks like as of today you can now configure alienware laptops w/ raid 1 and raid 0 HD's. I didn't notice this until today but it can't be more then a day or two old

 

I have seen that for a couple months but that's when I started looking for a laptop.

 

LOL, that option was available when I first purchase my M17X R1 over a year ago. Where have you been?

 

-shrug- mayb it just neva showed up for me before sry for misinfo

 

Go look at the fermi benchmarks in the sager forums. I have zero desire for fermi sli now. Very happy I went with dual 5870. I'm going to keep this notebook until sandy bridge + new ati release.

 

Wow. good job nVidia. those scores are laughable.

 

Laughable is a understatement. More on the lines of "Completely pathetic."

 

You guys were late to the party, check a few pages back here...the worst part is the 5870 benches were done with a 820qm, the 480 benches done with a desktop 940.

 

I expected as much; Most activityness on the forums happens when I'm asleep so i miss out on alot of information.

 

I'm with you on this. I grew up around Audio/Video systems. Optical/coxial digital is the way to go, but Optical is more feasible.

 

Well, from what I have read on the notebookcheck review of the Clevo D901F which was tested with Desktop 940 and 6gb ram as opposed to the notebookcheck review of Devil 9700 DTX which had 820qm and 4gb ram, (Clevo having the GTX 480m and Devil having ATI 5870 - both single gpu), the results for the Nvidia gpu dont really look that convincing - especially when compared to the 5870 results on a lesser spec'd machine!

Given that the ATI results are also obtained using current drivers which have issues and are soon to be rectified in the next CCC release, the ATI results should improve considerably on figures given by notebookcheck - efectively making the 480m look a bit like a flop.

Its obviously a good card but with such a high cost in comparison and the apparent issues with TDP, I think that the ATI offering has the most potential for improvement and it could be said that the Nvidia offering was stuck out there to try and compete at the top - which it does i guess, but not to the degree everyone was expecting.

Some new things are not necesarily better huh?

 

Don't expect a 480M SLI M17x. The M17x is the last of it's kind. If you like the design go for it, sooner or later it won't be the same anymore.

...then again if you want a 18"+ system then you might want to wait.

 

well will the 480m be better than my SLI 280s ?

of course we still do not know what dell will do with the 480m in the m17x (if they even do anything) to tweak it or neuter it.

 

I believe a maniacallaugh is in order..
Muhuhahahahahaha!

...I hate it when mandrake says stuff like that because it always seems so plausible.

 

ic an,t seem to find the damned benches where are they

 

Are you suggesting an 18" plastic laptop? I had a feeling the M17x R2 would be my last purchase for a while. I don't want plastic or 16:9

 

He's obviously suggesting an 18", 4:3, made out of lead...from China so it's price will go up. :wink:

 

How long do the laptops usually take to be built before they ship?

 

Too pathetic actually. Look at this. It replicates the 3D Mark 06 score shown on the notebookcheck website but now with the x7200 instead of the aging clevo d900f. Interestingly the article shows a 9.5% increase from single to SLI configuration of GTX 480m in 3D mark 06. Aren't those numbers a bit too low? Like suspiciously really low for a desktop processor system with SLI? Probably the GTX 285M beats these scores with SLI and a notebook processor.

 

E3 is now open. When do you think we will start seeing what AW has to offer if anything?

 

Hopefully soon!

 

Tomorrow when Charles works his magic

 

So anything new?

 

Soon enough I hope. Though you might as well reorder an M17x if you haven't already. My new one took longer to build than the last one.

 

I have no re-ordered, I was waiting for E3 just in case something happens. I might as well just wait another few days just to see...

I am going on vacation soon until late July and I won't need my PC therefore I can wait until August to order something if it's worth it.

 

There should be info out today, right? Alienware doesnt have a keynote or anything like that at e3, do they? Hopefully some pics will be up soon of their booth.

 

I am really worried only deception will fill our hearts... On the other hand deception won't empty out our wallets either...

 

What's the best site to check out the E3 news for Alienware?

 

I'm afraid of this happening as well. All I want in the current M17x is a 120hz panel for my first person shooter needs.

 

you can always check the Dell Blog, sometimes they update information on there.

 

G4 tv has full coverage of e3.

 

IGN also....

YouTube - E3's Channel

 

It seems like Alienware will not announce anything at all.

 

What?! How can they NOT?!

 

They will announce a new Core-i M11x!....ummm wait a minute.

 

I don't see any press conference scheduled for AW on the E3 schedule.

 

YES, YES, YES! Killzone 3 FTW! In your face 360 fanbois! Kojima had better give us more info on MGR.