Obviously we'll say Alienware 17 hands down in an Alienware thread right?

But then, IMO, Alienware 17 > Razer Blade Pro. Specs win hands down.

Slim is always nice but I would very much worried about how good the heat will get out from the body.
I am also waiting to have my GTX680M replace with GTX880M.

alienware 17 vs. razer blade pro. let's not go there. they are in different leagues all together. it's really an unfair comparison.

they should have defined a 'gaming notebook' properly :/ (it's becoming one of the worst marketing gimmicks these days)

a gaming laptop must be thick and has plenty of airflow, not thin and weak airflow.

and totally agree with you, they are not defining a gaming laptop properly. Razer should just continue their gaming accessories business, not laptop.

yeah.. :/ cooling is key for high-performance gaming laptops. to have efficient heat dissipation, you need good fans, larger heat sinks, but most if not all, plenty of space to have good airflow and to house a better cooling system.

Agreed

weird stuff: w8.1 activation seems unstable. when you put the laptop to sleep for some times then wake it up, sometimes it shows that w8.1 is not activated. you can observe that the windows version and build number at the lower right corner of your desktop.

once you're connected to the internet, it's back to the activated status.

again, you can back up the activation tokens with atm after w8.1 activation WITH PHONE (must be activated with phone; it doesn't work with online activation; this is for w8.1 only). the best practice to me is to install a fresh copy of w8.1; install all drivers; activate through phone; back the tokens up.

Edit: if you wanna have bios windows fastboot working, stick to w8. w8.1 fastboot doesnt work well in my case even if i had a13 bios.

This post has been edited by horns: Dec 27 2013, 11:03 AM

thanks for suggestions. I still haven't updated to windows 8.1 lol. I might do it after 2 months or 3. Super busy these days.

Yes, I think the same, as always Alienware rocks. Just wanted to show him, it's not just me. thanks for the help.

i have only one machine upgraded to 8.1. the rest are still 8.

oh. you asked the question here. maybe he thought that we are fanbois so the replies are biased totally

we are not fanbois, by the way. Aura is right. specs wise aw 17 is the winner hands down.

To all m15x user,

Today I went to All IT at Digital Mall, I wanted to buy a internal harddisk for my m15x because currently I'm using a SSD 120G which is not enough for me. So I asked the technician to give me a 1TB harddisk which can fit inside my m15x. The technician went opening the back of my m15x cover, after checking he told me that this can only be supported by 1 harddisk. m15x doesn't have 2nd hardisk slot.

So what do you guys think? Are you all currently using 1 or 2 hardisk.

m15x has only one hdd bay. maybe you can replace the dvdrom drive to hdd caddy to house the new hdd.

So I only can have one hdd at the moment ?

only if you can swap out the DVD bay and replace it with HDD bay, and you can have 2 HDD bays.

What is the price for SATA HARD DRIVE OR SSD caddy for 12.7mm and Dell Dell 750GB 7200RPM SATA 2.5" Hard Drive. Is that good enough or any other suggestion ?

you can get silverstonetek's ts09, http://silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=387

i bought them at lyp.

also, there are some sellers having the similar products at garage sales.

Does ALL IT sell it ? You bought the 12.7mm or 9.5mm

i think it's viewnet, near the psu section. it's 12.7mm.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-...6k-warning.html

from the above both work.

Yeah I had a SSD + HDD in my m15x now. Does anyone know how much will it cost if I change the whole m15x old casing to a new one ?

if you can find the chassis online, then it isnt a problem.