M11X R3 ($1,119.00) for a friend, worth it?

I just found one coupon of -50$ off... someone has a better coupon? what do you think about this system? can it run Dragon Age 2 on the Highest settings for at least 20 FPS?


PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7 2617M 1.5GHz(2.6GHz w/Turbo Boost, 4MB Cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English edit
MEMORY 6GB DDR3 at 1333MHz edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s edit
SOUND OPTIONS Internal High-Definition Surround Sound Audio (5.1) edit
WIRELESS CARDS Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 1000 a/g/n 1x2 edit
MOBILE CONNECTIVITY None edit
BLUETOOTH Internal Bluetooth 3.0 edit
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1 Year Basic Plan

WALLPAPER Alienware M11x 90W A/C Adapter
NAMEPLATE Standard Nameplate
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA® GeForce® GT540M graphics with 2.0GB Video Memory and Optimus
LCD PANEL 11.6" High Def (720p/1366x768) with WLED backlight


1119$

 

You can try calling it in and talk to a rep to see if he/she can provide a better deal. They usually can.

I suggest going for atleast 3 years of standard @ home warranty.

 

But can it run DA2 on the highest settings (HD)?

 

No idea. I only have R2, and only installed DA1 on my M17x R2.

I doubt it can run the highest, but may be close to high?

At native resolution (which I don't think is HD, atleast not even 1080), it should run it pretty good.

M11x is pretty damn good machine to own, but it's not a super laptop that can run games at highest settings in my experience. I mean it's 1k machine....

Good luck.

 

Any more comments? better coupons?

 

I'm using R2 and DA2 @ medium is about 25~50 and high is 15~30+

 

That price is very good for an R3 ... I paid about 1500 for my R2 (that ****ing warranty killed me!)

but yes, like someone said... definitely go for the warranty. Alienware's are good machines, but things can and do go wrong on these things, so just eat the cost and get the longest warranty you can afford.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. That's my .02

Enjoy your M11x dude... welcome to the club!

 

What? 3 year @ home warranty. In a year the thing will be obsolete and worth less than the price of a 3 year warranty.

 

The general rule is to warranty it for as long as you expect to own and use it regularly. For some that's a year, others 3 years or more.

 

If I had followed your general rule, I would be stuck with a dead XPS M1330 (Cost me 2.2k w/3yr warranty), and M1730 (Cost me 2.5k from IT contractor, 3yr warranty) (M90 is the only laptop still going strong after the 3 yr warranty was up, but I barely used it).

Take off the 300 bucks from each XPS I had, and I would've spent alot more for the AW systems I have on my sig.

If you ask me, Dell warranty pretty much pays itself off in time.

And yes, I did extend their warranty thru 2015 after I got the replacement (This cost me around 1.1k for extra 4 years of warranty for both M11x, and M17x if anyone is wondering).

 

Well I guess to each their own, but for gaming after two years, the M11x R1 will be more than obsolete. The R1 is already a year old, and struggles with most new games with any amount of detail. In another year the chance of playing any new titles is slim to none, with resale of maybe $200. So if it dies, does it matter if it's repaired / replaced unless they replace it with a new model, but I don't know that they'd offer an M11x R5 (or whatever is new at the time) for a dead R1. Probably a refurb of the oldest machine they have available.