My m17x has arrived!
It arrived about 2 hours ago. I woke up early and waited for it hehe. I'm still taking pictures of it, and still getting everything I want set up, so for now I'll be talking mainly about its physical aspects. I'll either edit or put another post once I have all the pictures taken.
First thing, this thing is HUGE! I knew it was going to be big, but good grief. The only other laptop I have ever used is my brothers 3 year old powerbook g4. (that was his graduation gift, the m17 is mine). The m17x dwarfs that thing. Its weight also is pretty massive, I would only recommend using on your lap if you are also a big, strong, person. Even the powerbrick is rather large.
When I took it out of the cloth sleeve it comes with, the first thing I noticed was the matte black finish. The only area that is glossy is the area around the screen. It has no blemishes on it, no scratches, or other such imperfections that I could see.
When I opened the case, I could not hear any creaking, and the screen is solid. It does not move while I am typing this. And on that note, there is no keyboard flex, save for the same area as the m15x, around the arrow keys. And even there it is very slight.
I went into command center. The only color area I have changed so far is the keyboard. I went through all the colors and noticed no color bleeding. So far thats all I've done with the CC.
As far as the screen itself, I love it. It does has a glossy finish and not matte. There is plenty of space to work with at the 1920x1200 resolution, which is precisely what I need as I am going to go into a graphic artist program in college. I dont have any blu ray movies, but I do intend on buying some. Thats why I go the blu ray drive. Right now, I am watching a standard DVD though. It looks better when not full screened. At full screen there is a lot of fuzz going on. But thats to be expected from trying to play any less then hi def media on a hi def screen.
The speakers are actually pretty good. The movie, although a standard dvd, sounds much like it would on a tv with a good sound system hooked up.
I havent run any benchmarking software yet, though I have checked the file on the desktop top:
3DMark Score: 7,936.00 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score: 3,586.00
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 3,709.00
CPU Score: 1,829.00
Game Score: 0.00 Points
SM2.0 Graphics Tests
GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 28.20 FPS
GT2 - Firefly Forest: 31.57 FPS
CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley: 0.59 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley: 0.90 FPS
HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
HDR1 - Canyon Flight: 31.49 FPS
HDR2 - Deep Freeze: 42.69 FPS
I hope that is helpful, I dont know what half of those programs are. I will get 3dmark 2006 soon to run again for confirming the score alienware has given me. As far as what the configuration was that got those scores, my system is the base line for the m17x, I just added the keyboard lighting and the blu ray drive (I have posted that before, just re-iterating)
The final thing I'll note, the touch buttons are cool, though it feels as if you have to press them almost as hard as a standard button to get any response from them.
As I stated earlier, once I get everything set up (I'm taking it one step at a time, I have plenty to set up) I'll get more of the benchmarking up
Hope this information has been helpful to those reading, this is actually the first review I've ever done.
Cheers!
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