Alienware's Little Notebook - Yes, it Plays Crysis

[c0r3f1ght3r]

so um yeah for under 1,000$ u get the watered down pos version right?

 

[trevorvdw]

I saw somewhere that the Nvidia 335M is about the speed of a 4650M so Crysis yes... on all low ..

 

[joshthor]

very nice.

 

[joshthor]

[citation][nom]trevorvdw[/nom]I saw somewhere that the Nvidia 335M is about the speed of a 4650M so Crysis yes... on all low ..[/citation]

yeah, my mobility hd 2600 run crysis on medium. so suck on that.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I kind of like the case. It seems like the screen is too small for playing games.

 

[dumbcanadian]

xcOmmiex, what about people who want a portable gaming unit? You could take it anywhere, hook it up to a TV at a friends house, computer monitor, etc. Yes it's expensive, and no I wouldn't buy it, but I see this product being fairly successful.

 

[Guest]

"Gaming laptops" are for guys with no girlfriends.

 

[chechak]

OMG that little thing can run CRySIS

 

[scrumworks]

Yeah, Crysis with ultra low details perhaps. GT335M, what is that? Some re-branded nvidia middle class mobile GPU. Mobility Radeon HD5870 destroys that.

 

[scrumworks]

[citation][nom]Some guy whos too lazy to register[/nom]"Gaming laptops" are for guys with no girlfriends.[/citation]

Is it for girls with no boyfriends too?

 

[roadrunner343]

[citation][nom]g00ey[/nom]I don't think companies are allowed to do such things, that would be what is known as "false advertising". I remember once when I bought something from the store. When I looked at the receipt I saw that the price of the good was higher that what was marked on the shelf. I pointed that out to the cashier. I ended up with a full refund and got the good free of charge. "Too, bad I didn't buy more!", I said to the cashier and left.So I look forward to seeing people suing their asses for false advertising and getting their money back.[/citation]

You sir, win the naivety award for the day. To think that something like that is "illegal" is just wrong. When they say prices "Starting at" they mean just that. The price starts at that price and goes up as you add options. Not false advertising in anyway (From a legal standpoint, though it is a bit misleading) and every big box company in the PC market does it. They definitely won't be getting sued over that.

 

[biofrog]

If you fill in the form, or just look at the page source you will also see it is a 1GB nVidia GT335M

"Then you''ll be happy to learn the M11x comes with the 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M. For its size, this system boasts an amazing preliminary 3DMark06 score of over 5700!"

 

[Guest]

Listen, IF anyone one has actually been to the Alienware website and know how the laptop pricing goes, you'd know that is wrong. I was seriously considering purchasing an Alienware a month ago because I wanted a gaming laptop that could last a little while when I'm at college, but alienware was too big and not enough battery life, however,
They start with decent gaming specs, maybe not Crysis specs but definitely decent to run Crysis on medium or High just not very High.
You have to understand Alienware is not a Premium computer brand like XPS or Vaio lifestyle or whatever.... They are a GAMING BRAND. As a gaming brand even the base model will be very capable, because the Alienware logo will only go on computers intended for modern gaming. (Base model may not be cutting edge but will at least play all current games reasonably)
Just so you know Alienware Laptops START... as in base model with a Gefore GT 240M, so gaming even on Crysis is definitely possible.
I hope I didn't write too much, I'm not trying to flame anyone or be a smartass, I just wanted to correct or shed some light on the subject, I felt there was too much doubt about cheap laptop and the whole base model thing.

I kinda regret buying the Asus Laptop I did, but it's too late now, this gaming netbook(oxymoron) would have been perfect. My laptop is still powerful but this would have better battery life.

 

[Jarmo]

From Anandtech:
Of course, you're probably wondering what the GT335M provides, and we asked NVIDIA for details. The GT335M is built on a 40nm process with DX10.1 support. It has 72 SPs and provides up to 233 GFLOPS of performance. The core clock is 450MHz with 1080MHz shader clocks and up to 1GB of 1066MHz GDDR3 on a 128-bit bus (34GB/s of bandwidth). That puts shader performance right around the same level as the 9800M GS, but with 33% less memory bandwidth.

 

[mfarrukh]

If they sell it for $1000.
It will be AWESOME

 

[phraun]

The sub-$1000 model is going to be a glorified calculator. There's no way you're getting that kind of hardware from Alienware for less than $2000-$2500.

 

[dmk82]

Am I the only one who isnt missing the fact that most games require the disc to be inserted so you can even play a game? unless of course alienware plans on making their own hacks to make the games work without the disc.. because thats illegal hah.

 

[anotherzen]

but does it run Real Girlfriend?!!1

 

[ewood]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]Reminds me of a 1.8T VW GTI.. pretty neat.[/citation]
haha I wouldn't be caught dead in a GTI. It reminds me of my evo 7...

 

[megamanx00]

Cool, but too bad it's so darn expensive.

 

[Guest]

dmk82, you are right.most games certainly will refuse to start if the original DVD is missing. even spending much time on creating an iso-image for virtual drives won't do because most games detect virtual software an then refuse either. so i fear many enthusiastics will be very disappointed with their new treasure if they find out.

 

[Guest]

funny how all those people are like "there's no way dell could make this thing under $1000! It has to be $2000 at least!" Now we see the price list and guess what? For $999 you get that Nvidia card. You even get a Core 2 Duo and an upgrade to 4GB ram. Who's laughing now?

 

[Guest]

i'd buy one but not until the icore7 and nvidia optimus is available. also i'm curious if they could shoehorn in and actually keep cool a slightly more powerful nvidia processor like the 350m while keeping the price under $1500.00. also they need to lose the super high gloss screen and go to a matte screen with LED backlighting. if they could take care of the cpu, gpu switching, gpu upgrade, and lcd upgrade all for under $1500.00, then there would be NOTHING else to compete in its class which is right in between netbook and ultraportable.

 

[Guest]

what about speakers?? are they the usual laptop speakers with no woofers?