Alienware m18x or m17x r4?

Metalface Mark · 24 Aug 2012 at 12:10

Does anyone know what hard drive caddy I would need to convert the dvd/rw to put a hard drive in?

I really never use hard media so its a wasted bay for me and I have a spare 500gb hard drive kicking about I could use.

Toasty · 24 Aug 2012 at 14:46

Just snagged

Alienware M17X R4
Alienware M17X R4
Graphics : 2 GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Wireless : Killer Wireless-N 1103 Card
Optical Drive : BluRay Combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write)
English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
Processor: Intel Core i7-3610QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Battery : Primary 9-cell 90W/HR LI-ION
Wireless : Killer Wireless-N 1103
750 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Display : 17.3 Inch Wide Full High Definition (1920X1080) WLED
240W A/C Adapter
16 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz Memory (2x8GB)
Internal Qwerty Keyboard
Camera : Integrated Skype HD Certified FullHD Camera with dual digital Microphones
LCD Back Cover : Nebula Red
Certified Refurbished

£880 Man you really have to be quick with these things

currantloaf · 24 Aug 2012 at 15:10

^ what time did that show up at? i think my refresh is too slow as when it updated the stock at 14:15 i saw nothing that interested me!

Toasty · 24 Aug 2012 at 15:15

It was around 14:17 i think four mx17 v4's showed up, been checking a few days and they tend to update between 14:15-14:18.

Metalface Mark · 25 Aug 2012 at 01:01

Plus vat?

Meaker · 25 Aug 2012 at 10:47

Oh and the whole 256GB vs 128GB thing. 256GB drives are faster at writing data.

bagaante · 25 Aug 2012 at 18:13

i still keep missing out on the r4s, hopefully get one eventually (before the wife spends the money on other things )

ninja2000 · 25 Aug 2012 at 22:49

Metalface Mark said:
Does anyone know what hard drive caddy I would need to convert the dvd/rw to put a hard drive in?

I really never use hard media so its a wasted bay for me and I have a spare 500gb hard drive kicking about I could use.

if its for the m17x then you need a 9.5mm

Sam · 26 Aug 2012 at 11:25

Can someone recommend an 16gb matched pair of ram please

Sam

justt · 26 Aug 2012 at 19:43

Toasty said:
Just snagged

Alienware M17X R4
Alienware M17X R4
Graphics : 2 GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7970M
Wireless : Killer Wireless-N 1103 Card
Optical Drive : BluRay Combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write)
English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
Processor: Intel Core i7-3610QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Battery : Primary 9-cell 90W/HR LI-ION
Wireless : Killer Wireless-N 1103
750 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Display : 17.3 Inch Wide Full High Definition (1920X1080) WLED
240W A/C Adapter
16 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz Memory (2x8GB)
Internal Qwerty Keyboard
Camera : Integrated Skype HD Certified FullHD Camera with dual digital Microphones
LCD Back Cover : Nebula Red
Certified Refurbished

£880 Man you really have to be quick with these things

Really nice for £880 would be more than happy with that price, Going see if I can grab one this week.

jubei · 26 Aug 2012 at 22:07

Gutted that its red though lol.

Meaker · 26 Aug 2012 at 23:05

Get it painted at a car shop and have it white then.

Sam · 27 Aug 2012 at 11:47

Sam said:
Alienware M17X R4
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
Graphics : 2 GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 7970M
8 GB DDR3 Dual Channel 1600MHz Memory (2 DIMMs)
English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
Processor: Intel Core i7-3610QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Battery : Primary 9-cell 90W/HR LI-ION
Wireless : Killer Wireless-N 1103
Display : 17.3 Inch Wide Full High Definition (1920X1080) WLED
AlienFX Colour : Plasma Purple
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
LCD Back Cover : Soft Touch – Stealth Black
Internal Qwerty Keyboard
Camera : Integrated Skype HD Certified FullHD Camera with dual digital Microphones
500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Certified Refurbished

£803.90

Corsair 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Vengeance Laptop Memory - will this be any quicker than the above or the same. Found for £80 so seems rude not too !!

Sam

Meaker · 27 Aug 2012 at 12:27

Not really faster, though you can add it to have 24GB lol.

Sam · 27 Aug 2012 at 12:49

You mean 32gb? Would it matter if I mixed the two brands if ram, both appear to be the same speed - 1600 MHz

bagaante · 27 Aug 2012 at 14:48

Well I actually saw an r4 today, by the time I clicked it was
gone , progress though

justt · 27 Aug 2012 at 15:49

what time was that about bagaante? I been hitting f5 for ages

bagaante · 27 Aug 2012 at 15:52

2.21pm mate, I was also hitting f5 on repeat , thought I'd caught one but when clicked was gone. Try again Tommorow

Meaker · 27 Aug 2012 at 16:16

Sam said:
You mean 32gb? Would it matter if I mixed the two brands if ram, both appear to be the same speed - 1600 MHz

The quoted machine had 8GB and you were looking to add another 16GB so that would make 24GB

str · 27 Aug 2012 at 16:19

You won't get anything randomly hitting F5.

What you need to do is have the main list of laptops in a Google Chrome tab and to refresh you sort it from high to low to low to high and if the update hasn't occurred yet you wait like 5 seconds or whatever and sort it from low to high to hight to low and you keep repeating until the update occurs. You will recognise the update because the list of laptops will go from something like 25 to 108 or whatever.

The general idea is to have multiple tabs open. So the first tab is the full list and for example say you are looking for a M17 R4 you either have the M17 R4 list still in a tab from yesterday or you have the full list open but you click to narrow the list to 17" and have it set to low to high and when the update occurs on the main list you switch to this one and sort it to high to low to get the updated list.

When the update occurs in your full list tab you switch to the other tab and change from low to high to high to low and you now have the updated list of laptops you are looking for much quicker than anyone else but you still need to be quick to get one in your basket so practice the CAPTCHA because if you get it wrong you probably will be too slow to try again.

Also 2:21 is mostly too late except when the update has been delayed until that time.

Most of the time you want to be ready at 14:15 with your tabs open in Chrome and it can take up to 3 minutes for the update to occur.