Just a few hours after the M11x specs first leaked, Dell has put its high-powered ultraportable gaming notebook on its website for pre-order. It starts at $US799, and will ship on March 1.
Turns out the leaked info was pretty accurate, except for the pricing and ship date. That $US799 will get you a Pentium SU4100 processor, though for an extra $US100 you can equip it with a far superior Core2Duo SU7300. The start price also includes a 2GB dual channel DDR3 memory at 800MHz, while 8GB dual channel DDR3 will cost you an additional $US350. You’ll also probably want more than a 160GB SATAII hard drive, with your options up to 500GB SATAII (7200 RPM) for $US150.
In all, it looks like you’re going to have to spend at least a thousand bucks – and probably more – for an M11x that’s capable of the kind of gaming you’re going to buy it for in the first place. It still may be worth it, but it’s certainly not as much of a deal as we first thought. [Dell. Thanks, Sam!]
Heath
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 10:01 AMI’m guessing this pre-order is US only. I really want one, just did a custom build and came up with $US1045/$AU1233…So when this finally comes out on the Australian site it’ll have the added Alienware tax for anyone outside of the US. The base price for the M15x in Aus is $1100 higher than the US base, that’s not taking into account exchange rates.
steve
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 10:02 AMat least it looks pretty
matt
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 10:27 AMis it just me or is “nvidia gt 335m” a next gen card? being a 3 series an all.
Stefan
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:34 PMNvidia just rebranded a bunch of 2 series cards, they have the 310 = 210 and. So im assuming the 335 is inbetween a 220 and 240, ssoooo a bit weaker than a 9800 GT
Mivilicious
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 10:17 PM“(o)1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M [Included in Price]
Please allow approximately 2-4 weeks for delivery”
not the card u were stating…
and how would u expect 2-4 weeks delivery on this item only, when u order it?
Robert Mark Bram
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:24 AMWonder what the battery life will be like?
Heath
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:55 AMWord is around 6.5 hours of video playback and about 3-4 hours of game play, but I assume that would be best case scenario.
Stefan
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:37 PMI get a bad feeling when it comes to Australia its going to cost heaps more than the US…
BIG SAD FACE!!!
Mivilicious
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 10:12 PMhttp://www1.ap.dell.com/au/en/home/notebooks/alienware-m15x/pd.aspx?refid=alienware-m15x&s=dhs&cs=audhs1
check out the US to AUS ‘online’ markup…. wtf is it with that!!lol
matt
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11:11 AMI think some of you guys are looking at the 15″ one
matt
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11:20 AMOk, here’s the deal, it is now on the Aussie site starting at $1600 BUT its a lot better base specs than the US stating one.
including the c2d processor, 4 gig of ram and the 500gig 7200 rpm hdd, the equivalent setup is $1100 US on the U.S. site, which takes the sting out of the Aussie tax a bit…
http://au.gear.ign.com/articles/106/1065816p1.html