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Those after svelte design, mobility and high battery life should look elsewhere -- gaming laptops are the Mack trucks of laptop land.
Dell's Alienware brand is dedicated to this dell 6Y270 battery market segment and the Alienware M17x is a 4.3kg bruiser that adds optional 3D to its list of tricks.
The gadget is billed as 3D-capable on the Alienware website but that's not quite true. To get James Cameron's Avatar movie or the Crysis 2 first-person shooter game bouncing out of dell 312-0068 battery the screen, you will need to delve deep into the customisation screens on the Dell/Alienware website to score the right goodies.
To make a M17x 3D capable, you will need to choose the LCD 3D panel option and the Nvidia GTX 580M graphics card and these will add an eye-watering $1100 to the base price. The 3D panel dell Latitude D610 battery option includes a pair of Nvidia active shutter glasses. If you want a spare pair through Dell, be prepared to shell out another $300, although they can be had for less with some shopping around.
he review machine could do 3D but had the less dell Latitude D600 battery powerful Nvidia GTX 460M graphics chipset, which is no longer available for the M17x.
Nevertheless, even with the less grunty GTX 460M, the M17x played pretty hard, assisted by 8GB of memory and a high-end Intel Core i7 2720QM processor.
Missing from the gadget's innards was an SSD drive, which would have dell Latitude D520 battery done wonders for booting Windows 7 and all-round system performance. Instead, the box made do with a 7200rpm, 1.5TB hard drive.
There are SSD drives available for the M17x starting at an extra $709 for a 256GB unit. That's one option box I would check.
Open up the big black Alienware box and there's plenty of eye candy, including a backlit keyboard that looks like a disco dance floor with alternating LED light colours pulsing across dell Latitude D510 battery the banks of keys. It's an excellent keyboard, backed up by a large, easy-to-use touchpad, although most gamers will hook up a mouse.
There's also a pretty good set of speakers, although I would add either headphones or surround speakers for more audio immersion.
The main event on the 3D version of the M17x is the optional 17-inch, 1920 x 1080 3D-capable display screen.
To check out its multi-dimensional capabilities as dell Latitude D505 battery well as the M17x's gaming credentials, I played the 3D-enabled Crysis 2 and Dead Space 2 and also watched the 3D version of Avatar.
Active shutter glasses and LCD screens are known for generating flicker and the Alienware was no exception.
Flicker on the 3D screen doesn't bother me that much and I find my awareness of it recedes over time, but for some it's a real annoyance, so be warned.
The M17x played both games smoothly at dell Latitude D500 battery maximum screen resolution and medium effects settings and the latest version with the uprated GTX 580M should do even better.
The world of Pandora in Avatar was dell Inspiron 600m battery immersive and captivating seen close up on the M17x's small screen but the action does jumble somewhat, especially compared with the tight 3D stage (and flicker-free view) on a 47-inch plasma screen.
The Alienware is a good high-performance gaming box for those who want their grunt and graphics wrapped up in a compact case and the optional 3D is worthwhile for those who don't have space for dell Inspiron 510m battery a full-size 3D television set.
But at close to four grand without an SSD drive, the M17x, which can't be CPU or graphics-card upgraded, is a lot of depreciation to handle over time.
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