yeah i know this one; everything is aio now

this is true. they are good.

yes i do, on a 27" (fhd). it's fine.

play games with fhd (1920x1080) then it should be fine. for work purposes you should be able to use higher resolutions.

nice

another good news ) yeah it's always a tedious task to set things up for the first time. luckily i only need minimal setup to start working.

i think aw 17's a good one. you can observe that from the presence of complaints here (which is, well, almost none?).

uh? why not?

Just do whatever you feel feasible for now and near future. It's not that we must put everything highend to live

I hope gpu computing is implemented in the apps i use. That way i can take advantage of the processing power also.

have fun

haha gtx1080! nice codename

yes.. if the upgrade cycle is too close, and you're upgrading something that are in the same range, then you might not feel the differences. swapping gpu from 660m to 780m is another story.

it's most probably due next year. (i think it is a good timing after my cpu upgrade )

Kernkraft400, merry Christmas!

nice timing

oh what did you do? you should call dell and ask for assistance :/

i guess they will reply you that the replacement was subject to availability, and by the time of the transaction took place, 780m was unavailable that time, "unfortunately".

cutting all craps, yeah i think you should get a 780m too.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

ah typical :/

there are parts sold online. you can check out taobao. (damn good. i have gotten many parts from there)

This post has been edited by horns: Dec 29 2013, 12:14 AM

maybe they also pry at the wrong places :/

if it's not removable, it will come in one piece. which part is that exactly? with electronic parts or not?

they will never learn that. i wonder if they have at least checked out the service manual of m15x :/

kaoru found it

here are taobao's listings:

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r....&id=19319825276
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r....&id=19856201692
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r....&id=17246462362

your other option is to talk to putochip123. maybe you should also contact dell.

uh? the screen is really that under-performing?

putochip123 got "lobang" he has a 120hz screen without 3d functions to offer.

This post has been edited by horns: Dec 29 2013, 11:30 AM

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