M14x R2 is out now

[nevup]

Hi, everyone. I am new here

luckily I hold myself until now, instead of ordering a R1 one week ago. Probably there is a minor improve ignored, that is the integrated bluetooth 4.0 by default. I am quite happy with it since I have some bluetooth devices.

Considering that the first release of ivy will be 4 cores i7, I guess it will be quite pricy...even now I don't find an option for i7 2670qm. Paying 200 pound from i5 2450m to i7 2760qm seem to be a waste.

[Kingofheart4711]

If you're from the US, I believe that you have 21 days to return it and get a full refund.
Lucky you !

Wow. No one can tell me Dell isnt Awesome. I just got off the phone with the returns department. She told me that since my order was delayed originally that they would waive the 15% restocking fee and give me a FULL 100% REFUND seeing as how it is only day 8 of the 21 day window. ALSO they said that if I decide to Keep it they will give me a $135 return!! SWEET!!

Just gotta make up my mind now i guess lol

[ASASHINOTSUKI]

i need to call and see if there is any way they could help me lol. its driving me nuts since just yesterday i was telling someone that DDR3 was my only regret with getting the m14x but a ddr5 wasnt an option

[Super Octet]

Wow. No one can tell me Dell isnt Awesome. I just got off the phone with the returns department. She told me that since my order was delayed originally that they would waive the 15% restocking fee and give me a FULL 100% REFUND seeing as how it is only day 8 of the 21 day window. ALSO they said that if I decide to Keep it they will me me $135 credit return!! SWEET!!

Just gotta make up my mind now i guess lol

I think you should wait Monday before you make your choice.
Things are moving on this thread : New M17x R4, M14X R2 and M18X R2 are coming - Speculation thread.

M14xR2 may get Ivy Bridge on monday.

I don't know what the performance gain from gt555M to gt650m GDDR5 will be like and I'm waiting to get more info on this to make up my mind about upgrading.

[ASASHINOTSUKI]

I think you should wait Monday before you make your choice.
Things are moving on this thread : New M17x R4, M14X R2 and M18X R2 are coming - Speculation thread.

M14xR2 may get Ivy Bridge on monday.

I don't know what the performance gain from gt555M to gt650m GDDR5 will be like and I'm waiting to get more info on this to make up my mind about upgrading.

i guess i should wait and see how different the card is before i go all gung-ho about this. but either way my machine was outdated in 2 months, i'll pay the difference to get upgraded if i can somehow

[IKAS V]

Anyone else a little dissapointed thats it's only a 650M?
Hell you can get that in a 11.6" CLEVO too, was expecting at least a 660M.
Hopefully there will be some AMD options too.

[Super Octet]

Anyone else a little dissapointed thats it's only a 650M?
Hell you can get that in a 11.6" CLEVO too, was expecting at least a 660M.
Hopefully there will be some AMD options too.

I'm already pretty impressed with the gt555M already.
Do you know how the 650m should compare ?

[HSN21]

i guess i should wait and see how different the card is before i go all gung-ho about this. but either way my machine was outdated in 2 months, i'll pay the difference to get upgraded if i can somehow

650M is true kepler, not only it's a very cold card (no overheating) but it's much much more powerful and for a reason

IVY bridge GPU got a huge boost, so nvidia had to make their 640-650m range more powerful or no company will buy them, the lower range is already obsolete since Intel GPU beats them

Here is Acer 640m (DDR3) with crapy CPU compared to m14x with 555m and Quad high end CPU 3d mark 2011


Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 Specs, Performance and Benchmarks

[ASASHINOTSUKI]

and thats just the DDR3 version?

[HSN21]

and thats just the DDR3 version?

Yes, official Nvidia reference DDR5 version come as 2GB not 1GB

Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

anandtech also got another review and list it precisely as DDR3 not DDR5 for the GPU

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5672/a...e-kepler-verge

They probably canceled m11x for a reason, if you want m11x performance pretty much plenty of laptops will fulfill that need with basic intel GPU now.

M14X even with 640m would do much better scores duo the better CPU (acer laptop got a CPU bottleneck)