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Alienware M17x R4 Review (i7 3610QM/ AMD HD7970M)

Cyberlink PowerDVD 11 is one of the finest solutions for the BluRay experience on Windows and we found this software to work perfectly with this chipset. We tested with the new extended Bluray Disc of Lord Of The Rings.

The M17X R4 has plenty of free time left to handle other tasks, only taking 9 percent of the CPU time to play back 1080p bluray content. Excellent results.

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15 comments

  1. Well I never thought I would say it, but £1,700 is actually pretty good value for that machine. must be their best priced laptop in a long time. I might end up going for a 128GB SSD though as 64GB is borderline.

  2. Thats a nice looking system. good pictures of the keyboard, is that the Star Trek font they use? lol.

  3. What a spec, my dream laptop. The ivy bridge mobile processors look good, but not really such a huge advancement for Intel.

    Shame they didnt use an AMD processor, but I suppose it wouldnt be popular.

  4. Dell confuse me, some of their pricing upgrades are decent, like the HD7970 but the memory options can be excessive. the fact that this is easy to open makes me want to spec the memory as LOW as possible, then get some from amazon, like the corsair veageance (16gb for £100 on amazon for 1600mhz! 2x8gb!).

    Can this computer take 8GB memory sticks?

  5. Hi Warren, yes it can take 8gb memory sticks. go for it !

  6. I dont mind dell machines. (its basically dell) – but I think id opt for a precision with Quadro for work. The only concern i have is dell batteries, ive had three other machines now and all the batteries fail after a year.

  7. I ordered one, now to deal with my wife 🙁

  8. You are mad buying one of these ! you could build one for much less ! alienware are a ripoff.

  9. Dont talk nonsense, this isn’t a desktop system. you can’t make a laptop. half the parts aren’t widely available for a start.

  10. Yes there are cheaper options like the vortex 3 from pcspecialist but they look cheap compared to Alienware. This is also cheaper than an apple too and has better spec. I’m sold on it