M11x Pre-Order Configuration Questions... Ask HERE

[deadboy90]

I have an r1 and I play skyrim on high at 30 fps. The Pros are numerous, small, lightweight, easy to travel with yet it packs a punch; there is no game on the market that you wont be able to play with at LEAST medium settings. (More likely high for almost everything) THe biggest con is probobly the glossy screen but if you had am m14x you are already familiar with that *ahem* feature. It's a great little laptop and i love mine to death!

[ThatOldGuy]

Emulation is CPU power hungry, so you may have trouble with emulators such as Dolphin or the DS on the M11x. Older ones should be okay.

[Tsukurimashou]

Thanks for your replies, and yes for emulator I was thinking, NES SNES Genesis ect :q but it runs Dolphin well? : o

[WEB_HEAD241]

I will trade you my M11x r2 for the M14x

[sskyler80]

Hi, I recently purchased an m11x r3 with the following specs for $999.99 CAD:
-Intel® Core™ i5 2467M 1.6GHz (2.3GHz w/Turbo Boost, 3MB Cache)
-4GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
-500GB3 SATA hard drive (7200RPM)

I was thinking about selling it and getting another one with these specs:
-Intel® Core™ i7 2617M 1.5GHz(2.6GHz w/Turbo Boost, 4MB Cache)
-6GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
-500GB3 SATA hard drive (7200RPM)
This one is for $1099.99

I got an offer of $850 for my alienware. Do you think it's worth upgrading to an i7 and 6GB ram? Will there be a significant improvement in performance? I know I should have just gotten the i7 in the beginning by paying only $100 more. But now I'll be paying $250 more for the upgrade.

[NateN34@gmail.com]

$250 for .1 Ghz faster? Heck no.

Why don't you just upgrade the RAM in your current one yourself?

[DDriver]

for 250$ you can put 8Gb RAM and a descend SSD - you will get a huge bump in every day tasks. Even more, for this money you can squeeze the case for your current harddrive to be used as external one.

[deadboy90]

No way its not worth it I have always felt the i7 was overpriced to the tiny bit of performance gainit had over the i5

[un4tural]

its not tiny, its roughly 25%ish. also 0.1Ghz means nothing these days, 1.2Ghz dual core beats 3-4Ghz Pentium 4 by miles... so yeah.

but unless you play lots of starcraft 2 or some other RTS with A LOT of troops and massive armies, you wont need the I7.

Also, if thats the case, it will improve your every-day use and feel of the m11x if you spend the 250$ on a decent SSD(200mb/s read/write) plus 8gb ram rather than I7.

EDIT:
just for credibility, numbers from cpubenchmark.com

Intel Core i5-2537M @ 1.40GHz 2445 <- thats me, does heat more than the current one... not too much.
Intel Core i5-2467M @ 1.60GHz 2373 <- thats you, see Ghz don't mean crap these days.
Intel Core i7-2617M @ 1.50GHz 2929 <- obviously, the upgrade option.

so yeah, the performance bump isn't really worth it, 23.43% benchmark wise, so like 20% more silly troops running around. (troop number is directly out of anus, do not quote me on it)

[sskyler80]

Okay thanks guys. I guess I'll just grab an ssd and extra ram