Alienware M17x (codename quicksilver) - Exclusive Preview Review
Posted on 2009-06-02 02:22:03 by Thomas De MaesschalckBack in 2006 there was a significant change behind the scenes at Alienware when they became part of the Dell corporation. For the first 3-years of the changeover the products released by the two divisions continued under the existing branding with Dell continuing to use XPS for their high end enthusiast products.
This situation changes with the launch of the Alienware M17x, the first machine to be released in a post XPS era. Today, for the first time in their history Alienware are allowing a publication (DriverHeaven) to preview a product as yet unavailable to purchase by the public.
Link: Driverheaven
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| Re: Alienware M17x (codename quicksilver) - Exclusive Preview by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 02 2009 @ 6:50 CEST |
| Sorry Dell, you are going to lose your shirts on this model. Plus's: Hybrid video is a handy concept to dual purpose a machine for gaming vs surfing in the same box. Stayed pretty conservative on the design. Good screen, but no matte LED. SLI - with modern chips which you needed to do. Dual HD's Esata Displayport - it's the wave of the future. Lots of venting Easy access to components. Aluminum case so it's durable. Lighted keyboard, but a bit over the top. All BLACK Textured touchpad Slot loading drive Onboard sound that's "decent" Good location of the arrow keys and reinforcing them was also smart. Good location of the GPU's to keep heat off the other components. Good job on the size of the powerbrick :) Bad: Design was too much Alienware and not enough conservative Dell XPS. Gamers tell you to make it flashy, but people with this kind of money, tell you to keep it down. XPS could do a bit of both. This is too flashy even in all black. Too many Alien heads and lit up logos. Can't trust the service of Alienware - despite the Dell ownership. That means there is no WAY this machine will get chosen with a Nvidia chipset over the X58 from Sager. 4 USB is 2 less than there should be for gamers. Chipset performance is much weaker than the Dell equivalent. The M6400 looks better... No latches on the cover (silly cheapening of the product) 2 DIMM slots when the M6400 has 4. And the M6400 has a better chipset to boot. No calculator key - lots of MMO gamers use the calc a lot, even in games :) No details on the version #'s of Displayport or HDMI so they are probably 1.0 and 1.2 which isn't very up to date. If no one is detailing what sound chip is inside the machine, it's probably not a X-Fi. Oh well. Opportunity lost. Working too hard to put logos everywhere. The Sager I7 with 3 memory slots and SLI and Intel chipset is going to eat the new M17X for dinner. |
- Reply by Anonymous on Thursday, June 11 2009 @ 18:55 CEST
Sager NP9280 Vs M17x
Intel® Core™ i7-920 Processor vs Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz < Sager win
1 gtx 280 vs 2 gtx 280 < M17x win
6Gb 1066mhz DDR3 vs 6GB 1333Mhz DDR3 < M17x win
1.5 TB vs 1TB ,< sager win
Same Screens < draw
Both have blue ray < draw
Really theyre both decent laptops with thier own pros and cons.