The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Bare Bones M14x w/ 900p

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by jruss, Sep 1, 2011.

  1. jruss

    jruss Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    If anyone actually moderates this forum, you can delete this thread now.
     
  2. sulliboys

    sulliboys Guest

    Reputations:
    0
    I got the same exact thing with the i7 2630, bt, and 900p screen. And 3 year warrenty..its nice knowing if somthing goes wrong dell covers it..Go for it
     
  3. TheHansTheDampf

    TheHansTheDampf Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    106
    Messages:
    318
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    this is not a barebone...
    i thought someone finally found barebones....

    the question to judge your deal is: How much $$$?
     
  4. jruss

    jruss Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    ?

    I left it completely standard except the 900p screen and blue tooth....
     
  5. Gearsguy

    Gearsguy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    570
    Messages:
    1,592
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Barebones means just the case. So starting a Bare Bones thread would mean you found the case for the m14x for sale or something. Also this should go in the pre order discussion as theres about 15 threads a day on this, where pretty much people have the same exact config 75% of the time.
     
  6. Croatoan

    Croatoan Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    187
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    barebones actually includes the motherboard bud or its just a case.
    Usually in the case of a laptop it will include screen, graphics, network, etc basically everything minus any add in cards, optical drive, memory or HD :) graphics are excluded if its an additional addin card. m14x is built in so that would be included.

    that is unless the gt555 is not hard soldered on the mobo
     
  7. fred2028

    fred2028 Sexy member

    Reputations:
    196
    Messages:
    2,205
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Sounds good, I'm sure dual cores will be able to game for quite a few years to come (especially ones with HT)
     
  8. KSSR1211

    KSSR1211 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    127
    Messages:
    366
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Jruss, I belive what you ment to say was the base model + upgrades. I have the base model, the only thing that really needed a upgrade for me was the screen.

    As for the three year warrenty that's your call, I find that one year is good for me as I replace my laptops every two years.

    As soon as I buy the lappy I start saveing for it's replacement.
     
  9. Mobius 1

    Mobius 1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    3,447
    Messages:
    9,069
    Likes Received:
    6,376
    Trophy Points:
    681
    i7 2 ghz would be worthed
     
  10. jruss

    jruss Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Ok well sorry I'm not up to date on all this nerd lingo. I meant a base model and I think that was pretty obvious once you read my OP. If it offends you so much don't even reply to my thread. What do you have nothing better to do than troll this forum and correct people's vocabulary?
     
  11. Croatoan

    Croatoan Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    187
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    nerd lingo lmao. on a serious note, the only things I would deem essential upgrades from the base model is the screen & i7. The rest can be changed at your whim. A better network card is recommended by most though.

    Just depends on what you plan to do with it and whether you mind getting your hands dirty doing any other upgrades yourself.

    Just popped an ssd in mine yesterday without reading a tutorial and to be honest most things are well within 99% of the populations capabilities.
     
  12. Gearsguy

    Gearsguy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    570
    Messages:
    1,592
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    wth

    Just trying to clear up why everyone seemed so confused, and just trying to direct to keep the forum clean. If you need to dispute a post with me, you can PM me, but I don't think I said anything that would be even considered "mean"...
     
  13. jruss

    jruss Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I didn't say you were 'mean'. Your reply was condescending as hell though.

    I don't really expect people to get condescending and pretentious on me on some random laptop forum. I'm just here looking for help and advice, not to be talked down to.
     
  14. Gearsguy

    Gearsguy Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    570
    Messages:
    1,592
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I replied to say why people were confused at bare bones, which is help. And then I was giving advice on the fact that theres a specific sticky for this type of thing because I dont want the moderators to get mad at me

    Then you said everything I said was "nerd lingo" on a computer forum and told me to "troll somewhere else"

    I believe you owe me an apology.
     
  15. TheHansTheDampf

    TheHansTheDampf Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    106
    Messages:
    318
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    this is not "some random laptop forum" :D
     
  16. Croatoan

    Croatoan Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    187
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    depends on your definition of random :)