Alienware m15x: True Gaming Portability?
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Page 1:Been Here, Done This?
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Page 2:Alienware Area-51 m15x: The Newcomer
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Page 3:Internal Components
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Page 4:Dell XPS M1730: The Old Guard
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Page 5:Display Characteristics
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Page 6:Test Settings
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Page 7:Benchmark Results: 3D Graphics
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Page 8:3D Graphics, Continued
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Page 9:Applications: General
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Page 10:Applications: Audio And Video
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Page 11:Synthetics
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Page 12:Synthetics, Continued
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Page 13:Conclusion: Gaming Just Got More Portable
Applications: General
3D Studio Max and Adobe Acrobat favor the Alienware Area-51 m15x significantly, in spite of the fact that both systems have the same CPU and memory configuration. The difference could be attributed to the different operating system and a related feature like TurboMemory, though that technology is best suited to notebooks with insufficient system memory.
We couldn’t get our Photoshop CS3 benchmark to run under Windows XP, so the Area-51 m15x stands alone. Readers should feel free to compare this result to those from other reviews.
Cinema 4D exhibits a slight performance advantage on Alienware’s Area-51 m15x.
Deep Fritz Chess prefers the XP-equipped Dell XPS M1730.
Several performance factors can affect WinRAR compression, but the important result is a significant lead for the XPS M1730.
- Been Here, Done This?
- Alienware Area-51 m15x: The Newcomer
- Internal Components
- Dell XPS M1730: The Old Guard
- Display Characteristics
- Test Settings
- Benchmark Results: 3D Graphics
- 3D Graphics, Continued
- Applications: General
- Applications: Audio And Video
- Synthetics
- Synthetics, Continued
- Conclusion: Gaming Just Got More Portable
what's portable?
small laptops that can be easily put onto trail table.
hand hold device that can be easily carried around and have at least 5 hours of battery life.
what's a gaming PC?
a PC that can handle all game you throw at it
a PC that can provide constant performance, not 2/3 performance when on battery mode
so you see, there is no such thing as gaming laptops, all you going to get is a half way house where it's neither really a laptop (in sense that it sucks at battery life and weights a ton) and isn't really a gaming PC (in a sense that it won't perform and doesn't allow easy upgrade of graphics card)
best solution for university students is like what i've done: a beast of a gaming PC, and an iPhone for portable entertainment. (or Asus EEE, MSI Wind, etc)
PC's go outdated very fast, so just sell the uni. PC when moving away.
Who made you king and let you decide what portable means?
I got out my old 15" Pro-star (Clevo) P4 heater/laptop on the train earlier this summer. The guy across from me had a 13" Mac with a newer processor, etc. Boy was I embarrassed since my laptop looked like a chunky breeze block compared to his!!
But really if you want a gaming laptop you are going to get something similar to my old laptop more akin to a portable PC (I mean 4kg+ of heft, etc. is not for the feint of heart!!) This won't change until fuel cell technology becomes mainstream...
Personally my next machine will be a lightweight laptop with a 15" or smaller screen. As long as it can playback 720p x264!!
Bob
I second this.
What a joke. With my q6600 @ 3.0 and an HD3870 I get a little bit lower than that at around 13,000. I wonder how much more that laptop costs.
Unless you have money to blow and/or the need to be extremely mobile just get a desktop computer. Hopefully you will build it yourself, but even buying a high end desktop would be a better deal than getting these kinds of laptops. I know too many people who think they need a laptop, and it just sits at their desk anyways.
LOOOOL
hey at least he fessed up to most of the comments. It was a great (comedy wise) week for articles here on toms
i know i had a good chuckle at work readin comments
He did? Must have been lost in the sea of feedback. Any reply I saw was him attempting to rebut (in a glorious lost cause) most critical comments. I didn't see a reply by him after page 25.
Looks like a little brat needs to get a job...
Or more like "Time to max out those credit cards... !! "
Bob
Depends whether your mom and dad is Mr & Mrs Hilton or not I guess!!
Bob
people on the move all the time? isn't there something called a CAR?
i go home every holiday from university, and i bring my gaming rig home every time, now i've also moved my gaming rig to summer placement (internship for Americans) all done using a car! they are great creations to move heavy objects
so for those who like idea of gaming laptop, tell me this:
you are stuck without any way of charging for 5 hours, what do you do with the brick?
i only carry an iPhone around when travelling. its got 4 pages of game, 10 hours of video and gameplay/wi-fi time of 6hr+, so i think i'll be happily occupied without being weighted down. and at destination (say to stay for a week) i still have internet access and enough games to last until i get back.