*OFFICIAL* M18x Owner's Lounge Thread

[Zero989]

best laptop? its the best computer ive ever had. meaning the least amount of problems with the most amount of pleasure .

[Mr. Fox]

Congrats! The machine is by far the best laptop I have ever used, you will not be disappointed!

best laptop? its the best computer ive ever had. meaning the least amount of problems with the most amount of pleasure .

Agree with both of you.

[shawnwalters]

Check this thread out for the touchpad vertical scrolling not working well? is there option for 2 finger vert scroll ala mackbook?

Thanks. I also updated my drivers from synaptics which included the Scrybe software. Although there is no scrolling menus in it. Its all in the touchpad properties. My biggest problem is two finger scrolling. Coming from the macbook pro, two finger scrolling is terrible. It literally just stops working in the middle of page or takes several swypes for it to actually scroll. Vertical scrolling on the right side works great though. That said I LOVE everything else about the m18x and I rarely use the trackpad except if traveling but I would love it if I could get two finger scrolling working better.

If anyone's two finger scrolling is working great, can you please post your touch pad settings - there are so many different things that could be interfering, ie touch sensitivity, palm sensitivity, scrolling speed etc.

[user736176]

FedEx finally delivered this beast at 8:30PM. The build quality on this thing is top notch. I haven't had a ton of time to comb through all the posts to find out what I should do first. Would you guys recommend updating all drivers or only certain ones? Also, is there a lock button for the volume up\down\wifi\etc panel? Mine seems pretty unresponsive. I have to change my volume through the volume controls in my system tray most of the time.

[scook9]

The ribbon cable for those buttons may not be attached well - it happens. As for first thing to do....for me it was reinstall windows. Alienware normally does an OK job but I prefer not having to wonder about it since ultimately I would end up reinstalling anyways I might as well save myself the hassle of installing everything else twice

[jlyons264]

The ribbon cable for those buttons may not be attached well - it happens. As for first thing to do....for me it was reinstall windows. Alienware normally does an OK job but I prefer not having to wonder about it since ultimately I would end up reinstalling anyways I might as well save myself the hassle of installing everything else twice

Ok I have seen a post like this a couple times... what is the point of wasting an hour reinstalling windows?

[scook9]

So that you know what is running on your machine. This is the only way to guarantee that there will not be any driver, registry, stability, bloatware related issues. I am also a control freak and like controlling every aspect possible on my computer

[jlyons264]

So that you know what is running on your machine. This is the only way to guarantee that there will not be any driver, registry, stability, bloatware related issues. I am also a control freak and like controlling every aspect possible on my computer

ok guess I never had an issue out of the box. but just wondering, are you using the alienware disk to resinstall windows or did you buy a clean copy of windows?

[scook9]

You can use the alienware disk. It is just a specially printed windows install disk. It will not have the drivers though. Just the OS.

[shawnwalters]

When I go from wall power to battery back to wall power it pops up a message to switch to discrete graphics and then restart. Is there anyway to disable this, (and so it stays in the best graphics)?