Recent content by Jsox84

Because my PC has everything I need except a sweet graphics card!

That's unfortunate. I have an M15x and I love it. It does have a few quirks though. The processor seems to throttle and really kill performance unexpectedly after doing something for a while (e.g. playing a game, 30 minutes in, it slows down for no reason). I usually just toggle Stealth Mode...

That's an interesting view. Indeed, some artists just have something to say. Some just want to get their name out there, or have a message. I would imagine however that most artists do their craft because they either want to make money or be "famous" (Famous in quotes because some people want...

It's kind of sad to see the [H]ard editors showing how obviously ignorant of the Wikileaks debacle they are. I'd have expected people who are (I would expect) following tech news to refrain from such trite commentary. It's already been said but Wikileaks is not anti-privacy. They...

Unless the Envy is built like a tank, I'm not sure where the statement about the build quality being better than the M15x. If a robber burst into my home while I was WoWing and aimed a gun at me, I would hold up my M15x to stop the bullet

I own the M15x so while I'm not familiar with the others, I'll try to offer some perspective. The M15x is significantly larger (probably 20% thicker) than any other laptop I have owned before (mostly Dells). It is however, very solid (I consider this a positive thing). I have no problems...

I'm considering getting an Alienware M15x laptop with the following config: SYSTEM COLOR Alienware M15x, Cosmic Black PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Quad Core Processor 1.6GHz (2.8GHz Turbo Mode, 6MB Cache) OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English WARRANTY AND...

You should be able to do all of that on a netbook. It sounds like either a laptop or a netbook would suit your needs fine - But if you are going to use it as extensively as you imply, just make sure you get one that is comfortable for you to work on. I, personally, would not find a netbook to...

Unless it's utterly unresponsive and bogged down with crap, don't bother. Windows 7 is absolutely dreamy in my experience and I had no problems installing it (over an old install of vista) on my laptop. Everything worked fine.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I am actually in a similar situation, I have a c2duo laptop (2.0) and am looking to upgrade sometime in the (semi) near future, so to hear positive feedback is encouraging. Although I do find that Windows 7 has given me a noticeable increase in...

I too am very interested to hear if anybody has any firsthand knowledge of the performance of these in notebooks. The basic concept is simple, if you aren't using all 4 cores on what you are doing, the processor will ramp up the speed on the active core(s). As you may already know if you are...

Sounds very, very expensive. Much more expensive than I would have expected - Laptop parts like this are generally high priced, but I wouldn't have suspected them to be that high. I would look around google or ebay to see if you can come up with any cheaper alternatives (lame advice, I know...

Personally I would be pretty confident in that sort of card being able to handle the titles you mentioned. For starters, they are both Blizzard titles and Blizzard generally tries to keep requirements at a reasonable level (see: World of Warcraft) as it helps them maintain their player base...

Fail. Nothing but randomly interjected censor bleeps, it doesn't even make sense. At the very least they could have been made to sound like the "actors" are using profanity or talking about something NSFW. To be fair, the original video must have been even more bland, but I'd hardly...

Post pics when you get it! It's still one of my "dreams" to own an Alienware, and the convenience of a laptop has definitely caught on in my house... me and my gf both have laptops and I doubt I will ever own a desktop as a primary machine ever again. I'm hoping to spring for an Alienware as...