Alienware M11x?

Hey all.

I was wondering what people thought of the alienware M11x... It seems surprisingly good for a laptop at its price...

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/alienware-m11x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

Is it worth it? And if so- how long will it stay worth it? (Since if I do get it- it won't be very son I don't think)

And of course- has anyone tested Crysis on it? :P

All I have to say is Alienware's customer service is complete garbage.

make ur own its not that hard, AND its alot cheaper for the exact same machine prebuilt. There are a bunch of people on this forums winning to help aswell as guides on the internet

make ur own its not that hard, AND its alot cheaper for the exact same machine prebuilt. There are a bunch of people on this forums winning to help aswell as guides on the internet

painguy1

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make ur own its not that hard, AND its alot cheaper for the exact same machine prebuilt. There are a bunch of people on this forums winning to help aswell as guides on the internet

mike4realz

Actually, you can. You can grab a barebones laptop (motherboard, screen etc) and add in your own components, but the price benefit is hardly worth it.

u cant add in graphics cards, at least I have not seen any for sale in new egg. lol. send a link to where they sell laptop video cards. I would like to know.brownwhale

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=MXM+III&l=1

(Sorry, I couldn't help it :P)

I just literally bought that baby for 762.93$ :) and i bought it with the core2duo not the pentium SU something something :)
:D only thing i could do in the future is upgrade RAM and HDD :D!!!
tbh it's really good for a notebook it's size.. if you want a notebook with good battery, lightweight and the occassional game-on-the-go I'd recommend it. :)
only downside is it doesn't come with a cddrive.. although my previous netbook (HP311) didn't have one.. so it's not a biggy!

if you want a deal right now.. let me know ASAP. cuz i know a coupon that expires tomorrow.

If you're curious here's a review

I'm going to get one too but i'm going to wait and see if they are going to put an i5 or i7 in it. I'm sure they will but who knows when it will be.

I'm going to get one too but i'm going to wait and see if they are going to put an i5 or i7 in it. I'm sure they will but who knows when it will be.

viperhellfire

I guess for me it depends on how much of a battery killer it is. If it only takes an hour off i'm ok with it but i'm sure it would take more then that.

I guess for me it depends on how much of a battery killer it is. If it only takes an hour off i'm ok with it but i'm sure it would take more then that.

viperhellfire

There are 18w i5 and i7 processors and i think the lowest for the i3 is 35w (I think) and the core2duo they have as an option right now is 10w. So there shouldn't be to big of decrease in battery life but no one knows till it happens.

I do not recommend Alienware at all. Theyre too expensive and are usually not built right. For the price you pay for those PCs, you expect to have a top-notch PC, but they usually are not.

Besides I do not recommend a netbook for a gaming PC. The screen's too small and is not powerful to run games well. You can probably find regular notebooks for around $700 with good enough specs to play games.

[QUOTE="mike4realz"][QUOTE="painguy1"]

make ur own its not that hard, AND its alot cheaper for the exact same machine prebuilt. There are a bunch of people on this forums winning to help aswell as guides on the internet

MaoTheChimp

Actually, you can. You can grab a barebones laptop (motherboard, screen etc) and add in your own components, but the price benefit is hardly worth it.

Have you seen how expensive mobile GPUs are?

I do not recommend Alienware at all. Theyre too expensive and are usually not built right. For the price you pay for those PCs, you expect to have a top-notch PC, but they usually are not.

Besides I do not recommend a netbook for a gaming PC. The screen's too small and is not powerful to run games well. You can probably find regular notebooks for around $700 with good enough specs to play games.

blizzvalve

IT IS NOT A NETBOOK

It's not a netbook, although it does rival such laptops. No it doesn't have an Atom, No it doesn't have a CD Drive but what it does have is a good processor and a good video card that has almost the same weight as a netbook and similar battery life. The idea of this alienware laptop is to have a simple game on the go machine and not it's hardcore alienware brothers. As for calling out Alienware "not built right" then I have no comment since I've never owned one. For the price this one came with and the details it has, it wasn't as bad as you're calling it.

and find me a good notebook that's light weight and has a smaller screen than 14" with good enough specs as this under 700$.

I would get an ASUS laptop if i were you guys, for around 1k you can double the power of that alienware from ASUS line of laptops.

I would get an ASUS laptop if i were you guys, for around 1k you can double the power of that alienware from ASUS line of laptops.

telefanatic

that are 17 inches and not portable at all, with almost non existent battery life.

and double the power is an overstatement

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I would get an ASUS laptop if i were you guys, for around 1k you can double the power of that alienware from ASUS line of laptops.

abusedbunny

that are 17 inches and not portable at all, with almost non existent battery life.

and double the power is an overstatement

What mine is 15" where do you get this 17" nonsense ? 4 hours of battery life is enought for me and i get 12k in 3dmark06 thats double of that alienware. And i only paid $899 for my laptop which has a C2D P8700, Nvidia 260M GTX , 4 GB ram and 640 GB Harddrive.

[QUOTE="abusedbunny"]expanded what specs did you get? i succumbed and just bought mine now. upgraded the cpu, 4 gigs of ram, 250gb 7,200 rpm harddrive, and bluetooth. -$200 in discounts it was 817 then $884 after taxes. SO HAPPY BUT THE MONTH WAIT WILL BE AGONIZINGexpanded

Its 7 pounds.

So how big is it again? 11 inches? Awesome I say, badging an Alienware to showoff your techsavviness all while maintaning the size/weight of a netbook. I am sold if I had money for a portable device right now. The specs should suffice the resolution it runs at, netbook is the shetz nowadays anyways laptops are too big you look like a goofball if you had to carry it 24/7. Imo :P

I'm getting one around March/April. I also like how easy it is to OCSparkyProtocol

7 pounds is heavy for me X_x.. expanded

[QUOTE="expanded"]7 pounds is heavy for me X_x.. SparkyProtocol

7 pounds too heavy for you ? Anyways those are some garbage specs for that laptop good luck running any new games on that thing. Unless you like playing on low ? I got no problem carrying my laptop around, maybe theres something wrong with you health so why not get the m11x since its few pounds lighter.

7 pounds too heavy for you ? Anyways those are some garbage specs for that laptop good luck running any new games on that thing. Unless you like playing on low ? I got no problem carrying my laptop around, maybe theres something wrong with you health so why not get the m11x since its few pounds lighter.

telefanatic

I'm not looking for a gaming machine that I can carry around. I was looking for something portable and has good gaming capabilities. I'm sorry if I offended your e-go. That wasn't the idea :lol: but thanks for the laugh :roll:

I like where they are going with this, to me it is more of a portability thing here that can quickly attach to a monitor if needs be. If I had the cash on me right now I probably would order one and use it for LAN sessions ( yes people still LAN). I don't care if it can't play Crysis at super high settings or whatever I'm just interested in playing TF2 or Company of Heroes. The 335M GT is pretty impressive for what it can do, has 72 pipelines, 450MHz core clock, 1080MHz shader, 1066MHz memory. The only down size is that it's 1GB GDDR3 with a 128-bit bandwidth so the card will never fully take advantage of all that VRAM. xXDrPainXx

See this guy knows what I was after.

The Alienware M11x is an amazing piece of hardware. You need to accept it for what it is an 11 inch ultra portable that can play games. It's not a desktop replacement, it's not a M15x or a M17x. I've been hanging out for a netbook sized notebook with more grunt, I pre-ordered the M11x as soon as they were available. I got the following specs; Core 2 Duo SU7300, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200RPM HDD, Bluetooth, etc.CellAnimation

What amazes me the most is the fact that they fit a GT335M, which whups the GT240M, into a 11" laptop. In that sense it's a pretty epic win.

For the price, its pretty good. Howeverit doesn't have an optical drive. (CD or DVD drive) You'll end up usingSteam :).

For the price, its pretty good. Howeverit doesn't have an optical drive. (CD or DVD drive) You'll end up usingSteam :).

SuperGamer911

For the price, its pretty good. Howeverit doesn't have an optical drive. (CD or DVD drive) You'll end up usingSteam :).

SuperGamer911

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For the price, its pretty good. Howeverit doesn't have an optical drive. (CD or DVD drive) You'll end up usingSteam :).

CellAnimation

It does get rather anoyying putting operating systems to USB, I mean if you do a lot of OS stuff like me.JigglyWiggly_

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]It does get rather anoyying putting operating systems to USB, I mean if you do a lot of OS stuff like me.CellAnimation

[QUOTE="CellAnimation"][QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]It does get rather anoyying putting operating systems to USB, I mean if you do a lot of OS stuff like me.JigglyWiggly_

Found the following on YouTube; Alienware M11x walkthrough.CellAnimation