alienware m11x buy or dont buy

wondern what you all think of this? im so saveing up for this bad boy



the custamizatable options are nice it overclocks up to 1.6ghz and the starting price is 800

One thing is power, but I do not believe that it can stay cool enough to utilize that power under normal circumstances.
Think about the screen size, 11 inches, when ever you actually want to use all that power for anything useful (gaming or otherwise) you will need an external screen.
The last thing is the battery, they mention 6.5 hours of battery "outside gaming" which pretty much means when not using the graphics card in any way, which is near impossible with Vista/Win7.

Terrible. What a waste of money.
I'd rather build myself a decent workstation for gaming and get a cheap, lightweight netbook for mobile tasks.

right i should point out that it gets three hours of constant gameing and you can easiley switch off the high powerd gpu with function-f6 and even overclocked to 1.6ghz per core it is only 1 degree warmer then normal. ill tell you guys more once i get my own. and realy the only problem i see is the screen but that realy isisnt one sence i have a few montiers im gonna be hooking it up tow hen im not gameing on the go

That only 1 degree warmer is probably an idle figure.
Try putting it through a long session of gaming and it'll heat up.

Anyway it looks like a good alternative to a desktop if you live the nomadic lifestyle of a student or overseas working expat so long as you don't mind carting a 2 kg laptop around.

Build it yourself and see how much it will cost you:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/alienware-m11x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

The SU4100 gets a 1149 on the CPU test on 3DMark 06.
The SU7300 gets a 1163 on the CPU test on 3Dmark 06.

All the SU7300 gets is a 3mb cache and support for Intel VT technology, meaning it can run virtual OS's. It is useful if you emulate Windows in Linux or vice-versa. If I am not mistaken, if you don't have Intel VT you can't emulate old N64/XBOX/Playstation games on you laptop.

Review on mx11
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Test-Preview-Alienware-M11x-Performance-Check.25840.0.html

Graphics Card Benchmarks and Ranking
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-335M.24060.0.html

Personally I wouldn't go for this laptop, it is too much money for something this underpowered. It only scores a 6462 points on 3Dmark 06 and you are nearly paying over $1000 for the midrange model. Laptops $100~300 cheaper get 3Dmark 06 at around 9521 points (AKA Asus G50-X1), the only sacrifice would be battery life.

Do it. But go for the one that is 2,023 USD [maxed out with best graphics, memory, sound, hard drive, minimum warranty, etc.]

if you want to spend your money for something that you'll regret later, just buy it. don't tell us we don't warn you.

hmm? uhm allright i ges. what would be a good alternative then that has more grpahics power but is under 1k