Alienware M17x Review

[Jarrod]

Alienware M17x Review by Jarrod

PALGN Feature: We take a gun and sword to Alienware's fancy pants portable hardware and see who comes out best.

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[Cavedog]

Damn nice GPU.
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[dslyderink]

As a gaming laptop user myself (ASUS G73) it's probably more helpful when reviewing to include a little more about the actual laptop itself instead of spending 90% of the review on game performance.

Things like general layout & design, fan speed/noise, heat dissipation or buildup, keyboard & trackpad feel, the fingerprint-factor attributed to the laptop's coating, and basics such as the weight of the thing - are quite essential details to potential buyers! There's no mention of warranty either.

Kudos for reviewing 3 games thoroughly on it but now I have to go to another site to see all the hardware-related details missed.

[Cyph]

^ It looks like you just made your account to post that, ignoring the fact that this is a GAMING FORUM. A savvy consumer looks at multiple reviews before making their purchase, so consider this a review at a different angle rather than the same that most other websites would do. I'm sure you'll live though, it ain't difficult to find the info you are looking for.

[Frozencry]

[dslyderink]

It's a shame on internet forums constructive and polite suggestion is usually taken the wrong way! Take it in the spirit of making a great site even greater maybe? Cyph I created my account for a post over on ICO also, not just this - I hope my blip on the troll detector can stop beeping now.

[grim-one]

[Cyph]

^ For the sake of gaming. Good point grim, but I guess that was not the focus of the review

True dslyderink, and while your post was constructive and not overtly rude, it did come across as trolling. All good though. Someone has to start somewhere with their first post.

[Frozencry]

[grim-one]

I guess you need to start somewhere. Tip for the future, hard facts and numbers are more useful than prose for hardware reviews. Comparisons too, but that's difficult when it's the first hardware review

I may just being cynical here, I'm not a fan of Alienware systems. Sure they perform, but you pay through the nose. Gaming laptops just seem... silly to me as well.

Also JPEG compression and poor colour contrast makes that graph look awful =\
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[Frozencry]

Nah I agree. I dislike gaming laptops and I also dislike the pricing on Alienware hardware in general. My PC cost half of what their most powerful offering was at the time, and my PC is also twice as powerful.

I see the appeal of them, but at the price it's pretty insane.
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[dslyderink]

Alas some of us IT guys work on the road so it's a necessary evil. Although if you do use it for work, hello tax deduction. My half-price-of-laptop PC is used at home and is more powerful than any laptop on the market.

For what it's worth, this M17x is much more aggressively priced than Alienware used to be - it's only $300 shy of what I payed for my G73 a year ago, and the 6970M would slaughter my 460M. Give my money back I'd buy this M17x happily.

As a media consultant I'll give a very quick tip on providing website content - and that is, never ever publish content that compels the reader to search other websites to get the complete picture. If you're going to put wine in the glass, fill it right up don't give us half - lest we object and be called trolls

[Mick Saige]

You didnt talk about the keyboard disco. The several times i made it freeze. The time i used it to change Vijays status, or the video we watched starring those girls we went to school with.

Worst-Review-Ever.

I give it 8/10 and will log a complaint in the form of a passive aggresive facebook status.