Ivy Brigde based Alienware notebook at the local AW Dealer

[knruff]

Interesting... My local (Switzerland) AW/Dell dealer has since today the new revisions of the Alienware notebooks in this program (m14x R2, m17x R4, m18x R2) - but not with the Sandy bridge cpu's but with the Ivy bridge CPU - delivery date is end of may

... -> http://www.digitec.ch -> search for alienware

[knruff]

they gone already but I have the links:

M18x R2 (Ivy Bridge)
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240385
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240386

M17x R4 (Ivy Bridge)
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240387
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240388

m14x R2 (Ivy Bridge)
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240389

[Speedy Gonzalez]

don't even make sense why the offer the M18X with 7970's if is not even out yet for the ivy don't surprise me

[knruff]

don't even make sense why the offer the M18X with 7970's if is not even out yet for the ivy don't surprise me

I don't know what you mean - both components are out since a few days:

Intel® Core? i7-3610QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz)

Arrival of Full AMD Radeon? HD 7000M Series Graphics Lineup

[DarkSkies]

I think Speedy_Gonzalez meant they are not offered by AW yet. 7970 seems like a potent card and the CF price is not really that high judging. I wonder what 680M will offer. I am pretty sure it will beat 7970.

[joecait]

I think Speedy_Gonzalez meant they are not offered by AW yet. 7970 seems like a potent card and the CF price is not really that high judging. I wonder what 680M will offer. I am pretty sure it will beat 7970.

From what slickdude80 said, the 680M was/is slower than the 7970m from "can't be ided internal folks" so at this point, I tend to think 680m will be slower than the 7970m. The 7970m sounds to just be engineered better for this iteration and I don't know if nVidia an do anything to change that...

Either way, I tend to not care and just go with the fastest based on price/performance since money isn't unlimited. From the bulk of other users, both companies have had their issues.

If I buy a 7970 this week

[5150Joker]

Its unlikely 680M will be slower than 7970M. If it is, it will be marginal at best and nVidia will have to price it lower. Either way I'm waiting on nVidia, I love their driver support too much to ever go red again in the near future.

[Speedy Gonzalez]

Its unlikely 680M will be slower than 7970M. If it is, it will be marginal at best and nVidia will have to price it lower. Either way I'm waiting on nVidia, I love their driver support too much to ever go red again in the near future.

most of the bad driver support we experience with AMD or Nvidia comes from SLI or Xfire a single GPU always have good support from both sides at least in my case

[knruff]

Now it's more or less official. Digitec is a premium reseller of Dell hardware in exception to other they offer pre-configured Alienware hardware with additional discount:

http://www.digitec.ch -> Search: Alienware

m17x black, i7-3720QM, GTX675, 16GB, 1TB + 64GB mSATA
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240388
same in red
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240387

m18x black, i7-3610qm, GTX675, 16GB, 1TB + 64GB mSATA
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240386

m18x black, i7-3920XM, GTX675 SLI, 32GB, 256SSD + 1TB HD
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240381

no sign of a m14x configuration yet

[knruff]

Here it is....

m14x black, i7-3610QM, GT650M, 8GB, 1TB + 64GB mSATA
https://www.digitec.ch/ProdukteDetai...Artikel=240389