*OFFICIAL* M14x R2 Owner's Lounge Thread - READ BEFORE POSTING

[Muddy]

Got my M14x R2 yesterday. Very happy, already have my ssd installed. Can't wait to test Guild Wars 2 with it this weekend.

[faiz23]

Still need to move over the new SSD I picked up. Too lazy now since Intel is planning on slashing their SSD prices next month. I might wait and pick up a new SSD to move into laptops and make both laptop SSD as External SSD ....drooooolz.

[ebondefender]

That's awesome faiz23, is it Intel in general or any specific site like Newegg? I may have to grab one and slap it in my m11x while I rebuild. I could increase the resell value. The main reason I don't install it in my m14x is b/c I need the HD's increased size for games. I would buy a 1TB SATA drive if they had a 9mm z-clearance for 7200RPM drives. But I guess that's like asking an SUV to go as fast as a Porsche.

[faiz23]

Intel slashing its SSD prices starting next month | ZDNet

[ejohnson]

Mine just showed up

First thing I thought was "wow, this thing is huge!"

But, coming from having m11xs, last laptop before my m11x was a black and white IBM thinkpad .

Colors are bright and vivid.

[faiz23]

Colors are junk on the lcd and I am using the m14x icc and then modified setting in intel graphics as follows

Brightness: 0
Contrast: 44
GAMMA: 1
HUE: 0
SATURATION: -3

[ejohnson]

Quick question, do the USB ports eventually loose their kungfu grip on my usb plugs?

These are some of the tightest fitting ports I have ever used!

[guanin]

Hi guys, I just received my M14x R2 almost 5 hours ago. I just have a question regarding partitioning it's HDD. I ordered it with a 750GB HDD with the 32GB mSATA SSD. I checked it on the bootup settings and says it's on RAID 0.

My question is, will this setup be affected if I partitioned my 750GB HDD into 2 partitions and cause my system to slow down?

[the_psychologist]

I totally reinstalled the OS/drivers when I got my r2. I bought my own 64GB mSATA ssd and installed the OS on that. Then I used a utility to delete the AW partition on the 750GB drive and formatted it as a single storage partition. I don't see how RAID applies to your setup, but maybe they need to do that for the SSD/HDD combo to work?

[MakakiloMoke]

Strangely enough I walked into Best Buy last week and bought one off the shelf. I am pleased with my purchase!

I used to buy all my electronics at bestbuy, but you can find better prices online now a days. How much did you get your R2 from bestbuy for?