Lolx Doc , upgrading ur warranty later to 3 years would cost u about 800 bucks = = my fren kena that price for his inspirion ... imagine that might mark up d price for our AW ...

i just recommending that way if you short of budget during that moment.

let me explain if we do it the another way.

>sacrifice CPU for 3 years warranty.
>then after a year or two (like both of us for example), already want to upgrade CPU.
>when we upgrade CPU by yourself and something bad happens, God forbid, Dell will check and clarify that our warranty had been voided.
>than we can kiss our 3 years warranty goodbye.

please correct me if i am wrong somewhere in this explanation

over budget duh.. i know is good for the quad... but price ...........
and then the waranty if extend it after purchasing will costs u at least 500 for only 1 years...
my friend kena that b4..

hi all a quick question.

Alienware just refresh their version of laptops ? or they refresh for more than 1 year already ?

how much do you short? 1k?

my budget can until 8.5k like that only..
so with the specs i mention just now is almost 8.5k

dont really quite get you.

you mean from old M17x to All Powerful M17x?

you know like MacBooks, they upgrade the specs it every once in a while.

IIRC, Alienware also. Or not ?

it depend on market. but not as frequent as once a month.

maybe around twice a year, if there is new technology that suit its specs.

so its in your hand now.
CPU or 3 years warranty.

your call.

Mr.Doctor, I think you got the "older" model of M17x right ?

from my knowledge which i asked dell , i am allowed to upgrate my own parts outside and it wont void my warranty, however , parts that we change ourself wont be warrantied by dell thats all if anything were to happen to it @@ i specially ask them this when i wanted to upgrate QX9300 and adding in CF 5870

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Added on February 9, 2010, 12:30 pmall of us are using the only m17x that is provided from dell malaysia , m17x r2 has not arrive here yet

This post has been edited by Azurika: Feb 9 2010, 12:30 PM

mine is All Powerful M17x R1 - the one with C2D or Quad processor.

R2 is the latest version with i5 or i7 as their processor option

since my budget not enuf..
i think choose the T9600 enuf..
coz warranty more important..

and we cant catch up the latest tech.. tech is comes fast..

debit can deal transaction of more than rm4k?

yea. i am assuming that too. but how is when CPU / GPU that we upgrade ourself causing damaged to other hardwares too? mobo for the best nightmare's example? i doubt they will cover that too since we are the cause of this damage.

btw i think we as Dell Alienware user should make some kind of request from Dell so that they will obey Alienware's policy where they will upgrade to us the latest hardwares. this already posted by someone in previous post.

Arizuka, what is your opinion regarding to this?

i think it should be no problem.

ask Dell directly for more precise information

from this statement, I assumed that m15x is R2 ? hehe

R1 and R2 is strictly limited to M17x only since M17x is released a few months before those i5 and i7 processor is released.

for M15x, there is only one version

This post has been edited by Mr.Docter: Feb 9 2010, 12:39 PM

tats very true but i think la, that person would probably be skillful if he dare to open up his AW its seriously a compact design inside , haha.

Im having dell change mine to the R2 if my system still have problems after it returns later this evening ... will call in consumer service this time to mean business