cant wait for ur video and benchies ...

I have tons of other things to update on this beast. The new Command Center introduces AlienSense face recognition login and AlienTouch, an enhanced touchpad experience. I need to update those now, and unfortunately, the downloads are crawling right now. Also need to download half-a-GB 3DMark06 app, as well as updating Cyberlink PowerDVD BD Edition update, which is crawling, for a mere 87+Mb download. Either crappy Streamyx, or crappy ftp site for Cyberlink, or both!

Sorry in advance for the shakiness of the cam, I was nervous and excited at the same time. Initially I had the Youtube clip with the background music of 300 trailer on it, but slapped with copyright issues when uploading to Youtube. So had to upload it raw like this. I'm not sure if I would ever sleep tonight, with all the tweaking, installation, benchmarking and stress test I'm going to do, so it may be a while before I'll be back here.

Wish me luck!

spectacular !


Glad to see it finally got thru to you man ! And thanks for the unboxing video

y ur hand is shaking? are u eating too much chicken legs?
btw good work there, try install games and show us plz

Sweet! The alien has landed

LoL. ohmigawd. all my saliva dripping, nose bleeding and all.. HAHA.

ALIENWARE

Congratulations on your successful purchase of the beautiful m15x. Putting her (sounds better ) on the bed and slowly undressing her while checking out each and every detail was really getting the heat up. Last but not least u even turn off the lights and on the fan/aircond before u start molesting/having fun with her. I'm pretty sure the Vista startup scream says it all that she's having an orgasm too. You sure know how to treat a lady well stringfellow!

Kidding man! You deserved it for the price u pay with the shipment troubles. Hope many others will follow and make the Aliens officially land here.

Thanks! This baby's strictly for gaming only. Minimal tweaks on other configurations, and therefore making it run smoothly.

Got everything up and running now, but not 3DMark06 yet. 2 hours+ till the download is complete. AlienSense works BEAUTIFULLY, what it does it it learns the features of your face, and use that as a template for a Vista login. Once the initial template is done, every time you log in, it will present itself as one of the option, besides punching in the password, to log you in as a specific user. I tried shoving a picture of me on the webcam, trying to trick it into thinking I am logging in, does not work. Which is a relief since anyone can login into this Alienware if they get hold of my picture. Once the real err...."face" is present in the Alien outline, then it scrutinises the facial features, and if pass then it will log you in. You need to stay still though, don't start smirking, or making funny faces, it will not log you in that way.

Updating graphic card driver as we speak, I'm not too sure I'm ready to use modified drivers from laptopvideo2go for this. Sticking with the official drivers from Nvidia for now.

awesome unboxing video bro ...

and the light effects were

congrats and enjoy ... if i could afford it i would splash my cash on it too ...



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i think there is a software for it. you can download

WTH!!! the LED lights r awesome men!!!

Totally awesome lappie. congrats string.

wanna ask..is alienware available in Dubai or Abu Dhabi? cuz my father is working there maybe could get 1 for me...

AFAIK, alienware product is strictly sold in US country. correct me if im mistaken

US , Canada , UK , France , Germany and Australia.

Congrats congrats!!!!
Hopefully your 'alien' came in peace
Really beautiful masterpiece

I had a great interest in Alienware a while back, until I heard bad news about them arriving DOA and stuff. They even required payments for 'restocking fee' or something like that if you choose to get out of Alienware because they failed to fix up your DOA issue.

My point is they suck for reliability and their warranty is not as efficient in service as Dell, despite Dell's ownership of Alienware.

Sincerely, I hope you have a good model in your hands because it would be horrible should it be a mess *touch wood*. All the best.

Few years back, I did consider get the alienware since the price not much different with the highend Dell. At the end I brought the Dell due to warranty. The Dell spec is slighty lower than alienware.

Sorry I didnt get back to this thread sooner. Had to do tons of games installation, download their patch, clean up, and then tweak the Alienware to run back at optimal settings.

It's relatively ready now for becnhmarks and tests. Had done a preliminary on 3DMark06 and it ran a 9400 points. The information docket I've received from Alienware states a 10k+ points which I am not sure where they get it from, so call me a skeptic.

Most importantly, the Alienware is proving its worth on games. ALL games except Crysis ran 1920x1200 MAXED OUT! They ran at their highest settings and at satisfactory framerates, which in my books, means 30fps or more. Crysis, I had to drop it to 1280 x 1024 , but still maintain a HIGH setting, to get the framerates to maintain above 30fps. Still looks bloody awesome at that resolution. Once I bump up the resolution above that, it can go up to 1920x1200, but the framerates drops to the teens and worse once you get dense foliages and multiple bogeys coming in during gunfights.

I do not run stress tests on this, the 72 hours stress test has been done on this unit by Alienware during Phase 7, so that has been taken care of.

I've got these games installed on the Alienware:-

Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium War + Kane's Wrath, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, The Witcher.

Waiting to get my own copy of Fallout 3.

awesome laptop btw, haha, my god, the list of ur gadgets scares me :S