Alien M11x

Hey Guys First of all am new :3
i'v ordered the M11x the one with offer 599
i'v increased the Hard disk to 250GB not SSD
and 4GB ram
thats about it
it's the Core 2 duo
i know it's to late to say this!
but is it still worth it ? XD
i'v seen it play games that requires good specs and such so was wondering is it still worth it ? i was bale to get the i core ones because i'd to play like 300 more or something thats above my limit
so just wanted to take the opinions
and ya i wanted to ask i wand to buy a small hard drive that would fit with the alienware m11x any idea people
and a good optical mouth wired one tho

 

i'm new, too, and it looks like i bought exactly the same system as you. afterwards, i spent a week wondering if i should have upgraded to an r2. for me, it really depends on whether my r1 will run stable when overclocked. if so, the performance difference between r1 and r2 won't be significant for the games i play--at least, not significant enough to justify the addition cost for upgrading.

there are lots of threads on hdd upgrades and mice. have a look around and you'll probably find a lot of advice!

 

That will be a nice notebook. it will play alot of newer games.

as for the hard drive and SATA 2.5" hd/ssd will work.

 

Thanks for The Reply i mostly play LoL and MW2 now adays and S4 am sure the M11x can play it was wondering if it can play Black ops also hmm XD

 

Yea it will, of course alot of those games will not play on advanced setting, but on moderate you should be good.

 

Hmm I still cant find a game that my r1 cant put in the high settings. Maybe im wrong but....Oh well. I think its worth it. If you dont have hinge issues or some things like that.

 

Salue, what GPU do you have

 

am sure M11x can play LoL on maxed out settings and i tihnk it can play also MW2 full since those games are kinda old XD

 

didnt u read
at top when i said
i'v ordered the M11x the one with offer 599 i will receive in a week or so

 

hmmm ok what game is LOL, and i know you ordered it im asking what GPU you have in it, that will determine the game experience.

 

MW2 is still considered a high demanding game.

 

i can max settings on my r2 mohawhawhawhawhwhawh

 

Same specs as topic starter ? you can probably play more games because he doesnt have a GPU haha

 

Am I missing something? All m11x models have the same GPU, nvidia geforce 335 GT.

 

I didnt know that

 

LoL=League of Legends
GPU
umm am not so pro
but if you mean by GPU as in VGA card it's
1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 335M

proccesor
Overclockable Intel® Core™2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz (3MB Cache)

am not so pro like with pc's yet

 

DO the M11x's have a display port and or HDMI ?

 

R2 has both. R1 has VGA instead of HDMI (I think).

 

ooooh, and the M15x is still stuck with DP, and VGA.;(

 

Yeah, R1s have VGA and DP.

 

R1 doesnt have hdmi? I thought it does..

 

I have an r2, but I was PRETTY sure that the r1 has an HDMI port.

 

I could be retarded, but my R1 has VGA and HDMI.

EDIT: Yeah, what they ^^^ said. :-D

 

r1 has all the ports

r2 is missing vga

 

like the above said
the M11x got the HDMI
all ports

 

The R1 also has a keyboard.

 

lololol wanted to ask u sometihng since u have an R1 did u play on it black ops ?

 

Really ? right or left handed ?

 

Yup. It stuttered at a few points when there was a lot going on (likely the CPU to blame for that), but otherwise was very playable on medium settings.

 

I usually operate it left-handed, though it is user-configurable to accomodate either hand - or even both at the same time.

 

does it support AlienFX on the right handed version ? if so... Im sold and im getting this Keyzboards you speak of.

 

Yes, it works - however the driver used for controlling the two sides of the keyboard is a bit dated (and not likely to be updated anytime soon), so performance suffers a bit. You can get better performance using drivers straight from the separate manufacturers of the left and right sides of the keyboard, but you'll have to manually select which to use via the BIOS.

 

I was under the impression that the BIOS A05 was supposed to sync the two sides making them available to download on the dell driver/download site together.

 

was wondering i know i saw in video's there is sim card slot was wondering if i put my iphone sim card on the m11x would i will be abel to use it for internet ?
or is that sim card port just for show ?

 

That "sim slot" is actually an option WWAN card, available as an option the US. It should be fully functional if you opt for it though, as long as your service provider is down for it.

Yes, but that BIOS update also causes issues with the latest release of Pong 3D Over 9000. Your choice

 

^hahaah +1 for a good chat

 

Thanks!

Can ya tell I'm bored? 12-16 hour shifts with nothing to do but babysit equipment and surf the internets. wheeee.

Thanks for playing along

 

I want your job No pro. It was Fun.!!

 

hey codes i was reading in the forum ur using ubuntu on ur m11x how is it ?

 

As I mentioned in the other thread, I don't have any major issues with it. I don't use it for anything terribly intense (mostly Android development and testing), but it handles that much just fine.

I have read some issues over on ubuntuforums.org - the nvidia card is still powered up even if you're using the intel card, for example. I've started running the nvidia card 90% of the time anyway, so no biggie - I just have that set in BIOS and change it to Intel and run Windows if I really feel like sipping power. Otherwise, pretty much everything works. Haven't tried AlienFX Lite on Linux yet, but I understand it works pretty well.