Impartial Reviews of the M15x Gaming Laptop

Online, April 20, 2011 (Newswire.com) - If you are thinking of buying a gaming laptop, you have no doubt considered the Alienware M15x laptop. Below you will find independent reviews of this great little machine.

M15x Review Summary from kotaku.com:

Loved
Blistering speed: There's no arguing that the M15x is a laptop built from the ground up for gaming. My loaner shipped with an Intel Core i7 920XM processor that delivered 3.2GHz in Turbo Mode and came with an 8MB cache. That's enough power to get pretty close to topping out the official Windows Experience Index for gaming and certainly enough muscle power to run anything on the market today.

High Def Screen: The m15x comes with an astounding 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M GPU delivering 1920×1080 (1080p) resolution on its 15.6-inch screen.

Winning Aesthetic Design: True to its core, the Alienware laptop is a flashy bit of kit with back-lit speakers, a glossy Alien head with glowing eyes set in the center of the laptop's lid and a pleasantly tactile surface beneath the keyboard.

The curved and vented shape of the front edge of the laptop and lid give the computer a delightfully unique look.

Backlit Keyboard: The M15x, like the XPS laptop line, has a backlit keyboard that can be personalized with the Alienware Command Center. Controls let you light up the keyboard with any color you want. The keyboard is actually broken down into four sections, so you can choose colors for each section and they don't need to match.

Light Show: The keyboard isn't the only thing you can light up and control. The Command Center also gives you control over the color of the speakers, that fancy lid Alien head, the power button, the touchpad, the above-keyboard media strip and even the company's logo. The center lets you set up different colors depending on whether your running the laptop on battery or a power cord and even light up to show different events, like when new emails arrive. You also have access to an impressive selection of color swapping options that will strobe, morph and cycle through colors on any part of your laptop.

Hated
The Power Cord: The XPS laptop's power brick was so big it initially struck me as a gag. The m15x isn't quite that bad, not
quite. It's still about 20 percent larger than a DSi, which strikes me as too big to power something meant to be portable.

Laptop? Not If You Want To Walk Again: This is one of my biggest complaints about the m15x laptop. It's not a laptop, not really. It's nearly 15-inches wide, 12 inches deep and almost 2 inches thick. It also weighs nearly 10 pounds. Most importantly, though, is that the laptop's visually pleasing design, makes it incredibly unwieldy to rest on your lap. The laptop's battery in particular, which juts out by about half an inch for use as a stand, makes lap use of this laptop unlikely.

Pricey: All of those bells and whistles, the high-def GPU, blazing fast CPU, 4GB of dual channel DDR3 memory, a 500GB SATA II hard drive, the brand and the design, it all comes with a pretty hefty price tag. While you can land an entry level m15x laptop for $1,200, this bad boy will set you back nearly $3,000.

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