Fuck yea! Free copy of Portal!

[Cagerrin]

freelancer telling someone to stop posting....

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[BobtheGreatII]

I'm really hoping to get the M11x before I head off to college in the fall.

[Cojafoji]

It's a nice laptop, and if he wasn't using that quadcore for workstation type power, it wouldn't be much use to him. That cpu can still do a fair amount in something like Premiere. Plus, he said he'd only be using it for small things, which it's fine with. Not to mention that increased clock speed will help with gaming, as most games don't even utilize a third or even fourth core, let alone the second. I mean, unless it's Sup Com FA or something.

[Warsaw]

Really? They used GDDR3? Fuckin' Dell, they would. Man. I dunno, I'd have bought one of those very nice ASUS computers instead. But hey, at least you got your fancy keyboard lighting and metal chassis.

[Cortexian]

Really? They used GDDR3? Fuckin' Dell, they would. Man. I dunno, I'd have bought one of those very nice ASUS computers instead. But hey, at least you got your fancy keyboard lighting and metal chassis.

That metal chassis comes in handy when you need to beat off would-be thieves! I've heard of a few GDDR5 GTX 260M cards floating around out there but I'm not to sure of the validity of it. It's possible that the Mobility HD 5850 is still slightly better than the GTX 260M with GDDR3, but it would be marginal and Nvidia has CUDA. I heard Adobe will be supporting more Nvidia GPU's later in the year so I went with this guy.

Also, processor problem solved:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/INTEL-quad-mobile...item20b09b3bd5

Looks like the M15x processors are plug-and-play for the most part, I'll probably pickup a Core i7 620m in a few months for around $250 CAD once my second job is established and I quit my first.

[MastaCheefa]

Is that a 30 day free-trial of McAfee Anti-virus I see??!! Well done, sir.

[Warsaw]

Protip: Core i7-620M is a dual core chip. That eBay listing is misleading you. Sure, it has four threads due to Hyper Threading, but that's not the same thing as having four physical cores.

Unless someone comes out with something better, I'll probably be getting the latest iteration of the M17x next summer. Hopefully by then we'll have Crossfire Mobility HD5870s with GDDR5 or SLI Fermi-based GPUs inside. I don't really have a video card brand preference, I just want the most power possible, since it's a desktop replacement.

[Cortexian]

Is that a 30 day free-trial of McAfee Anti-virus I see??!! Well done, sir.

There was no option to remove it, the U.S. site on the other hand does have an option to ship with no Antivirus what-so-ever. I'll be ripping it out by it's teeth as soon as I get it, that's the first thing to go after I do the unboxing video.

Protip: Core i7-620M is a dual core chip. That eBay listing is misleading you. Sure, it has four threads due to Hyper Threading, but that's not the same thing as having four physical cores.

Unless someone comes out with something better, I'll probably be getting the latest iteration of the M17x next summer. Hopefully by then we'll have Crossfire Mobility HD5870s with GDDR5 or SLI Fermi-based GPUs inside. I don't really have a video card brand preference, I just want the most power possible, since it's a desktop replacement.

It's misleading, but not to me. I already know that the i7-620M is a dual core chip, and that's exactly what I want since I don't need a quad core i7 in a laptop (the seller also states the correct information under "Specification" farther down the page). I would much rather have faster dual cores than have four slower cores, plus the two extra threads on the dual cores will keep up with most multi-threaded applications whereas the extra threads on the quad core would most likely be wasted.

This is the reason I went with the i5-540M instead of the i7-720QM, the 720QM is a quad and I don't want it. However if I can get the i7-620M it'll be the fastest dual core I can get for a laptop, the i5 was a good compromise though since it's -$100 for -100MHz and -1MB cache.

I talked to a Dell rep today and they said that I can go ahead and install the i7-620M myself if I can get one from where ever, they won't void the warranty on the laptop unless installing the processor causes a problem. That said, he told me that I'll have to put the original processor back in if I ever have to send it in for ANY reason.

[Warsaw]

Well, I'd rather have the true quad, since I'd end up hacking the system to overclock it anyways. I also heavily multitask, and coming from this single core system I'd want to make sure I can do it all without hiccup.

Still, I do see your point. Save on what little battery life you can, right?

[Cortexian]

Exactly, even though I've got the optional 9cell Lithium Ion battery the battery life is still only around 2hrs. Plus I've got my desktop and school workstations available when I need to bring out the big guns!

I know how I'm setting up my keyboard lighting when I get it...


The guy who set that up made a video on how to do it, I grabbed some screen caps and made a little layout so I know what order things need to go in:




On another slightly related note, my backpack shipped out of Vancouver today so I'm expecting it on Monday. I will do an unboxing video of my bag, hopefully it comes in a box now so I don't look like a fool. Unbagging my bag just wouldn't be as awesome.