The laptop Alienware M17x is the flagship games. It has a discreet design, aluminum frame and a customizable lighting system. Our review unit was packed to the gills with two Nvidia graphics card, an Intel Extreme and 8GB of RAM. Alienware M17x have to meet to claim the laptop the fastest games on the market? Read our review to find out.
One feature of the M17x is characteristic is its fully customizable LED lighting system called AlienFX. There are ten different lighting zones, including keyboard, mouse, speakers, an Alienware logo, multimedia keys, power button, and head on the back of exotic cover. The keyboard itself has four different lighting zones. Users can create lighting themes for all occasions. Alienware says they are working with game developers to incorporate in games AlienFX, for example, parts of the computer changes color to indicate the state of health, ammunition, and so on. AlienFX is easy to turn off by pressing [Fn] + [F11]. AlienFX contributes to the uniqueness of this machine, and is an attractive design feature feature.One last deserves a mention is the M17x is screwless designs - there are no visible screws on the M17x (other than the four cooperatives in the plate). This is something the performance of a design and M17x makes searching even thinner.
Even if not all, as seems likely, it is hard to deny the quality of design and construction. M17x is a one-of-a-kind, and seems much more interesting than in the past, the Alienware machines.
One feature of the M17x is characteristic is its fully customizable LED lighting system called AlienFX. There are ten different lighting zones, including keyboard, mouse, speakers, an Alienware logo, multimedia keys, power button, and head on the back of exotic cover. The keyboard itself has four different lighting zones. Users can create lighting themes for all occasions. Alienware says they are working with game developers to incorporate in games AlienFX, for example, parts of the computer changes color to indicate the state of health, ammunition, and so on. AlienFX is easy to turn off by pressing [Fn] + [F11]. AlienFX contributes to the uniqueness of this machine, and is an attractive design feature feature.One last deserves a mention is the M17x is screwless designs - there are no visible screws on the M17x (other than the four cooperatives in the plate). This is something the performance of a design and M17x makes searching even thinner.
Even if not all, as seems likely, it is hard to deny the quality of design and construction. M17x is a one-of-a-kind, and seems much more interesting than in the past, the Alienware machines.
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Our review of the Alienware M17x unit has the following specifications:
* In 17-inch WUXGA (1920x1200) display with
* "Space Black", the beginning of
* Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
* Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 (2.53GHz/12MB/1066MHz) quad-core processor (overclockable)
* Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 1 GB of graphics cards in SLI
* Switchable integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card
* 8 GB DDR3-1333 RAM (2 x 4 GB)
* 1 TB RAID 0 (2 x 500 GB 7200) hard drive array
* Slot-loading Blu-ray
* Lighting system AlienFX
* 9-cell battery
M17x starts a modest $ 1,799, but we played-out test machine is on a high $ 4,649 for publication. Intel Extreme ($ 1,000), 8GB of RAM ($ 800), and two GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards ($ 600) contributed most of the price.
* In 17-inch WUXGA (1920x1200) display with
* "Space Black", the beginning of
* Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
* Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 (2.53GHz/12MB/1066MHz) quad-core processor (overclockable)
* Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 1 GB of graphics cards in SLI
* Switchable integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card
* 8 GB DDR3-1333 RAM (2 x 4 GB)
* 1 TB RAID 0 (2 x 500 GB 7200) hard drive array
* Slot-loading Blu-ray
* Lighting system AlienFX
* 9-cell battery
M17x starts a modest $ 1,799, but we played-out test machine is on a high $ 4,649 for publication. Intel Extreme ($ 1,000), 8GB of RAM ($ 800), and two GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards ($ 600) contributed most of the price.
