Alienware m18x or m17x r4?

danielanthony · 9 Jan 2013 at 13:50

thedinks said:
You wont get a brand new replacement for an outlet model.

If that's the case I'll be getting my £2877 back then, can't be doing with getting another faulty machine

RobK · 9 Jan 2013 at 14:47

I had a brand new replacement for an outlet laptop last year. I bought an M18x R1 which had dual GTX460M graphics cards, but the SLI did not work. After 3 repair attempts and some email/twitter harassment from me they eventually replaced it with a new one. It wasn't the same spec though; the replacement just had a single GTX560M.

Richdog · 9 Jan 2013 at 15:26

RobK said:
I had a brand new replacement for an outlet laptop last year. I bought an M18x R1 which had dual GTX460M graphics cards, but the SLI did not work. After 3 repair attempts and some email/twitter harassment from me they eventually replaced it with a new one. It wasn't the same spec though; the replacement just had a single GTX560M.

I the spec was less than you paid for then surely you shouldn't have accepted it and fought longer for a higher spec?

RobK · 9 Jan 2013 at 15:37

I did argue about it however they refused as I had only paid £700 for the refurb, compared with the £1750 list price of the new one. They said the only other option was to refund my money, which obviously I didn't want!

kitkat9933 · 9 Jan 2013 at 20:20

Just ordered an M18X, can anyone help with the following.

I am assuming it has SATA III ports, if so how many?

What are the max capacity drives in each slot it can handle?

What RAID options does the board support?

Ordered this spec:

Congratulations! Your system is ready to be built.
Included in your system:
COLOUR CHOICE Alienware M18x Nebula Red - Anodized Aluminum edit
PROCESSOR 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3940XM (8MB Cache, up to 3.9GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM English Windows® 7 Ultimate (64 BIT) edit
GRAPHICS CARD Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M SLI™ edit
MEMORY 16385 MB (4x4GB) 1866MHz DDR3 Dual Channel edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB 7,200rpm SATA 3Gb/s HDD edit
LCD 18.4" WideFHD (1920 x 1080) WLED LCD edit
OPTICAL DRIVE BluRay Combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write) edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Killer Wireless-N 1103 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO with Bluetooth 4.0 edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 12-cell 96W/HR LI-ION

Thanks James

danielanthony · 9 Jan 2013 at 22:42

Nice spec!

It has two sata3 and one sata2 connector so 3 2.5" HDD's in total. Plus one mSata port which is sata2 speed. Raid is 0 or 1.

iv-tecman · 9 Jan 2013 at 23:40

roughavoc said:
I want to join in with the failure of getting an Alienware but school...

going by your sig, you've got an Alienware already?

iv-tecman · 9 Jan 2013 at 23:41

danielanthony said:
If that's the case I'll be getting my £2877 back then, can't be doing with getting another faulty machine

Nearly 3K for a laptop, that is a lot.... I thought I'd paid a heck of a lot of money for my alienware M17x but you've gone the whole yard on yours..

Must be heck of a spec.. Hope it gets sorted, for that sort of money they'd better sort it.

kitkat9933 · 10 Jan 2013 at 10:22

kitkat9933 said:
Just ordered an M18X, can anyone help with the following.

I am assuming it has SATA III ports, if so how many?

What are the max capacity drives in each slot it can handle?

What RAID options does the board support?

Ordered this spec:

Congratulations! Your system is ready to be built.
Included in your system:
COLOUR CHOICE Alienware M18x Nebula Red - Anodized Aluminum edit
PROCESSOR 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3940XM (8MB Cache, up to 3.9GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM English Windows® 7 Ultimate (64 BIT) edit
GRAPHICS CARD Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M SLI™ edit
MEMORY 16385 MB (4x4GB) 1866MHz DDR3 Dual Channel edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB 7,200rpm SATA 3Gb/s HDD edit
LCD 18.4" WideFHD (1920 x 1080) WLED LCD edit
OPTICAL DRIVE BluRay Combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write) edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Killer Wireless-N 1103 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO with Bluetooth 4.0 edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 12-cell 96W/HR LI-ION

Thanks James

danielanthony said:
Nice spec!

It has two sata3 and one sata2 connector so 3 2.5" HDD's in total. Plus one mSata port which is sata2 speed. Raid is 0 or 1.

I guess I'll get a big HDD for the Sata 2 port and 2 SSDS for the Sata 3 ports.

bagaante · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:07

here we go again

bagaante · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:23

argh i could scream , i actually got an r4 with blu ray reader etc was perfect in every way
clicked it as soon as it appeared, did the captcha thing as fast as my fingers could type and it was gone

its so frustrating, might have to look elsewhere as im not sure my sanity can take much more of this (have been doing it since last year off and on)

alienwisher · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:31

I actually think my heart's gonna pop at 2:15 one of these days. Don't really know why.... it's like entering the Olympic 100m finals and you've got Usain Bolt lined up next to. Yeah, there's a chance but that chance is somewhat small. Cracking machine today too.

MOOGLEYS · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:39

I7 3630, 16Gb Ram, 2GB 680m and Blu-Ray for £1200 inc.

ninja2000 · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:51

who got it? I wasn't quick enough as usual

bagaante · 10 Jan 2013 at 14:58

MOOGLEYS said:
I7 3630, 16Gb Ram, 2GB 680m and Blu-Ray for £1200 inc.

Gutting
Will no doubt end up on eBay

MOOGLEYS · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:12

bagaante said:
Gutting
Will no doubt end up on eBay

More than likely, I was looking at one for sale on ebay just now same spec for £1600 being sold by a plumbing shop ?

Seems anyone is in it to make a few quid. Or if you Lapodo over £1k profit.

ninja2000 · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:24

yeah but what muppet would pay that. I also like their alleged Dell RRP's, its almost criminal

bagaante · 10 Jan 2013 at 16:50

Just phoned dell up, they reacon they don't offer anywhere near the 20percent discount off I think I read earlier in this thread, they knocked 100 off a 1500 laptop and said that's the best they can do

Might need to try again or I might need to go down Clevo route or look elsewhere

roughavoc · 10 Jan 2013 at 17:54

iv-tecman said:
going by your sig, you've got an Alienware already?

I ordered mine yesterday, there is no possible way I can pick one up off the outlet with my school times for about a month which is a problem as I kinda need a pc now'ish

bagaante said:
Just phoned dell up, they reacon they don't offer anywhere near the 20percent discount off I think I read earlier in this thread, they knocked 100 off a 1500 laptop and said that's the best they can do

Might need to try again or I might need to go down Clevo route or look elsewhere

So the deal is, you will not get much off a base spec laptop. bump the specs up a lot and you'll get closer to that 20% I mentioned. Secondly, you wont get it though random dell man. You will have to search another forum to get the person who can offer you a large discount (my sig I got 13% off)

bagaante · 10 Jan 2013 at 18:06

roughavoc said:
I ordered mine yesterday, there is no possible way I can pick one up off the outlet with my school times for about a month which is a problem as I kinda need a pc now'ish

So the deal is, you will not get much off a base spec laptop. bump the specs up a lot and you'll get closer to that 20% I mentioned. Secondly, you wont get it though random dell man. You will have to search another forum to get the person who can offer you a large discount (my sig I got 13% off)

I wanted one with 8gb ram decent card (probably 7970) And blu ray reader

Do u mean search another forum on this site? I'm confused