First I believe as the new M17x and the M15x is the first line up made to be 'mainstream' laptops. Thanks to Dell. lol

TNB main office at Muar, get Namewee with us too.

I'm having the 9 cells. Fully charged, 1 hour 15mins. But don't trust the battery meter. It goes off faster than that. I'm using my WITHOUT the battery. And I noticed if you're running it on the battery alone, the performance will be throttled, quit badly.

Erm, what I did was used the battery till the battery's life at about 40%, I plugged in power, and the whole machine lagged like there's no tomorrow. CPU usage was about 80%, with nothing, well, not that I know running. Can't even watch mkv movies. Have to restart. lol

i don't know if its the same problem, but something is definitely wrong there.

No issues when its running on a power adapter. Cheers.

And how you do it??

If you gonna do hardcore CAD, get Precision Covet instead. That's why this is a gaming laptop.

As chiahau said, check his siggy. Posted pictures there. And also at the V1 of our thread.

i got the 'erhem' version, but i didn't install it. will be getting the ori one soon, i have friends playing on STEAM and they told me its worth the money. Lets bulk it!

not all my friend. if the 260m can pawn every games, then what bout the m17x dual 280m SLI?

I think it's safer to say, all games are playable at respectable but not maxed out settings. Crysis Warhead for example, I played it at Gamers setting or Medium if you prefer, with 2x AA. Even it's not maxed out, it still looks good and most importantly smooth. A bit spiky if the settings are maxed out. Having said so, CoD MW II and such games doesn't really need an owning GPU to play at full settings.

Here's a summary of games I tried so far on my gtx 260m gpu, i7 720qm proc, 4gb ddr3.

Crysis Warhead - Gamer settings
CoD MW II - All high
Prototype - All high (laggy during in game movie clips, any ideas why?)
NFS Shift

Gtx 260m should be able to handle those games at those settings without any problems. As for Crysis Warhead, it CAN be maxed out but at certain scenes, the fp/s dropped for some obvious reason.
Sorry that I'm too lazy to post the average fps for each game. But you should roughly know how the card will perform.

You mean PC Games? IIRC, The Software Boutique is selling L4D2 at RM 138.
http://tsb.com.my/index.cfm

Hey, read the other thread about price discussion. Someone will be confirming with me if he wants the bag. Check it out, and remember don't go out of topic for this thread.

Let me know if you're ready for it.

yea i know, by that's not fun playing it below the native reso.

Someone do it, and tell me if its safe!

49'C

i tested in an air con room. but left it running for quite some time before i noticed your post. but its still fine though.

I was away for 48 hours or so, invited to a HP Product Launching event in KL. Yup, HP!! Kinda exclusive event with the HP GM of Malaysia and Microsoft Malaysia OEM Director there as well. Got loads of freebies like backpacks,umbrellas,t shirts and so on. And tried out all of their laptops and pc there. the touch pad by HP = IMBA. lol. its much better than AW's. Just sharing my thoughts though. I feel guilty now. Attended the event, but hey, it's free!