Alienware m15x

So i just ordered this thing and it got here very fast so I've decided to do a little review on it :P Contribute to the forums a lil'.

Shipping:

I ordered my m15x not long ago and after reading horror stories of months of shipping time i was shocked to see mine arrive so shortly after ordering.

When it came here i of course, were jumping with delight
Just seeing that massive lorry pull up and the worker step out and pull out an box with the alienware logo on made me drool.

After opening the box, going through 5 tonnes of bubble wrap and paper i finally got to a little black box, i quickly opened it and dropped the laptop


End of story

So i sent it back for repairs, when i dropped it onto my hardwood floor my heart just sank into my chest, i was to scared to look inside after i heard the crack.

Lets just say.. the keyboard had barely any keys, the screen was cracked through the middle and i could see the graphics card just staring at me through the gap in the corner of the touch pad.

Luckily they thought it was a shipping problem and i am now eagerly awaiting another couple of weeks for it to come back.
Hopefully i will be more careful this time.

-Eltoc

you rearly should be more carefull. but it's a good job they thought it was a shipping problem

I really should, but about 2 hours later i was joking about it :P
When i turned it on just to "test" i heard the fans come on, a low pitched crackling then a small spark came from the headphone jack and it switched off.

No idea how that happened xD

Also!! Here comes the best thing, i was on the phone about 10 minutes after i wrote it, they rung back and told me i will get a free
carry bag and a hat! All because they thought it was there fault.

No more will i suffer bad hats!
THE HAT HAS MESHES TO KEEP YOUR HEAD COOL!

Does it have built in water cooling?

For what i payed for the damn laptop ( which i broke ) i hope the hat has a damn laptop built into it!

Sorry for what is basically flaming but Eltoc you are unbelievably spoilt.
You have what?
About £4000 worth of tech and you are a kid.

Don't forget the highest OC'd E8200 known to man on air

Krlll he's only 2 years younger than me and I'm getting aver £1100 of new PC within a few weeks. However I do have to pay for it all myself :(

Wow. You dropped it once and all that stuff happened? We had a Toshiba A30 about 5 years ago (£1300 ex display - wow) which I dropped from about chest height something like a year after we got it. The power cord was plugged in at the time, and the pin inside the socket broke off, so it wouldn't charge, but it worked fine until the battery ran down. Couple of weeks ago I soldered a new power socket into it. Its good as new!! Apart from a crack in it on the back. But that doesn't matter. I use it for school work now.

some laptops are built much stronger than others, and Alienware laptops aren't built for strength, they are build for power, and quite ofternly, the two don't seem to happen together.

you took the words right out of my mouth

I guess in lucky for what i have but my family is quite well off.
I dropped it at around chin height, was looking for a latch or tape that was keeping it shut, reached for the knife which i had opened the box with and dropped it. Opened the box and saw the damage.

Was quite shocked :P

And as for the E8200, im currently going for a stable ( at least stable for an hour or two ) 6ghz or more.
Borrow my friends water cooling in about a weeks time as this fan cooling won't suffice.

EDIT: I'm just over 6ft tall so it would of been about 5"11 or 5"10 from where i dropped it.
It dropped at a corner. Not flat.

Upwards of 5ghz is definitely possible on 45nm - don't know about 6 but good luck :p

5.2Ghz was about highest I saw for the Q9770 on liquid nitrogen on you tube.

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Lol, Yeh I saw that video too!! Quite tempting to do it myself. We have several large containers of Liquid Nitrogen just sitting around the campus I work at. May take a wee parting gift when I leave in a couple months :P