Felt like a bit of a rant, currently on my second m14x which is going back on wednesday.
Is it just me or has Alienware gone down the pan, i've been an AW customer for a few years, but dell have ruined it, just feels like a sticker now, my old Aurora M9700 felt faster than the m14x and thats old tech by todays standards.
First m14x had a dent on the lid (pointing upwards) looked like a zit, second one which i knew from reading on here had a loud fan which i thought i could live with but it's not just loud i thought it wanted to fly back home (China not space).
On top of that the battery is just pure rubbish, i read people saying they had good battery life, the last two i had were about an hour and half, light use.
Shoddy bios update, i thought the whole point of ditching the m15x was to improve portability while gaming seen as this is a gaming machine.
Crap graphics card.
Don't get me wrong Dell do offer some good products, i also ordered another m11x as i think they are amazing and a great price, but i think my relationship with dellaware is over.
Can i recommend the m14x, i can so long as you meet the following.
- Do not expect to game without being plugged in.
- Don't turn it on in public as people will get blown away and not by the looks but by the fan noise.
- Be happy to add 50 to the order for all of the tech support calls your going to make.
All i can say is good luck to anyone who buys an m14x, i envy the ones that stick with it, i can't stand the thing, ok rant over.
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Well that was a sad story, but anyway GL with other laptop brah
but just to let you know something from my experiences
WoW:
Raid BOT full raid 2.5 hrs and my battery hold up fine
The fan wasnt even that loud compare to some of Asus laptop
SC2:
did 4 game of SC2 on battery each game is around 28 mins long and the battery hold up fine
-agian the fan wasnt as loud as other asus laptop -
hmmm cool story bro.... good luck with the envy
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Sounds like you've had a bad experience to the max!
From what I have gathered so far (I dont own a M14x) the fan noise is a matter of what you are already used to. My XPS 1340 is a relativly quiet laptop until I start (trying) to game on it, then it kicks up a bit but never to the levels I would consider annoying. But my missus disagrees! Her Toshiba craptop barely kicks in, Facebook doesnt use that much CPU/GPU! -
I must admit i've always been fussy about fan noise, i've probably spent hundreds on making my desktop quiet, trying loads of cases.
So i guess that maybe more opinion based, i think i fell in love with the first m11x i had, maybe if i went straight to the m14x i'd feel different. -
It's stories like this I've been reading that the M14x has its troubles.....
I've been looking and such for a few weeks now & after reading some of the horror stories I may reconsider my decision on Alienware and go the Digital Storm route..... -
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i have sata 3 speeds.... and its solid !
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As I said with everyone who returned their Atrix:
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
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I constantly get 5 plus hours of battery life. Portable gaming on decent settings doesnt really work that well. Requires to much power.
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Unless of course you were using Intel graphics @ 800x600 res or something... -
I for one have never been happier with my M14x this is my 7th comptuer/laptop and it's above and beyond what i wanted.. and fyi this is my first Alienware, and for people you hate, my second item from Dell.
I'm glad it's over
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Cutterschoice, Jun 18, 2011.