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Alienware Area-51 m15x, M15X Smart Bay Battery+HDD Kit Post #212
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derred
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Nov 12 2008, 07:30 AM
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QUOTE(stringfellow @ Nov 11 2008, 08:17 AM) Beauty in the looks, beastly in the specs.  Yup, I need this because I move around a lot, at work and while back at base. Can't carry a desktop around, unless I want that Quasimodo look.  Tomorrow, can boss? My house lighting a bit the "romantic" side, and cannot capture the full beauty of it. Tomorrow, I'll bring it over to KLCC and snap its pics there.  That alienhead colors can be change, 12 colors. Also set to pulsate if you want to. It's ALLLLLIIIIIVEEEEEE! *Cue X-files theme song*  stringfellow, nice system you have there man! I am a former Aurora owner, back in those old days while AMD was "the gaming cpu". Heck it was SLi-ed too. Anyway m15x was in my cart list but then when you (actually me!) have waited since last November for a BLACK SKULLCAP m15x and until today there's no response from AW, I have given it up (that's like what, almost a year of waiting?!) I was insisted if I were to have my 2nd Alienware, it must come in black and skullcap. m15x seems to fit my lifestyle of utilizing a laptop but instead AW announce the new m17 which definitely a turned off for me. Sorry for the long introduction and rant, just wanted to say keep it coming man!
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derred
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Nov 12 2008, 06:33 PM
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QUOTE(stringfellow @ Nov 11 2008, 11:22 PM) I know, I've been quietly keeping up with your Alienware related threads, and I like your no-bullshit style of only accepting the hard truth and not insinuations and guesswork. I operate that way too. Well met, fellow Roswell dweller!  It has been available about 2 days after I received my m15x. Don't worry it's no buzzkill, the 9800M GT is a rebadged 8800M GTX, Nvidia has a weird way of selling old stocks and rebranding it as new. The guys at Notebookreview had proof of that, and benchmark results supports that finding. The next step up, the 9800M GTX, is the one to look for, but from the guys at Sager/Xoticpc, they've confirmed that even putting that into a thicker Sager 15 inch chassis is not possible, due to its demanding thermal envelope, meaning your laptop may melt on your lap if you do so.  So, as far as the current technology goes, the 8800M GTX(and its rebranded 9800M GT) is still the only available, most powerful single graphic card solution for a 15 inch chassis of any laptop. Unless you want the 15 inch chassis to look like layers of stacked up sandwich, SLI configurations are not possible on a 15 incher. Plus, I do like the form factor as it is , with the single graphic card config. First I was about to reply the 9800M GT rebadging thingy but you beat me to it. Anyway yeah nice knowing you and game your m15x hard! Somehow I miss being a gamer but at least now I have AW desktop (not really since I only bought the casing that one time there are selling on their site p2 predator!). ps: you have any blog or site I could update with you? forum turned me off these days. This post has been edited by derred: Nov 12 2008, 06:38 PM
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