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dont run sc2 on battery, thats just asking for trouble
i have the older one, with the su7300, 4gb ram, so im sure the i3/5/7 will perform much better than mine, and i think they all come with 6gb of ram now
i run sc2 on med smoothly (i have it oc'ed at 1.73) and do lots of 4v4s with no issue
the main reason i would recommend it is the the size, 11'' is nice and portable, it goes everywhere with me, well anywhere id be likely to play sc2
at univ, i get around 10 hours of battery life on the other intel card, with wifi, but thats just with word, excel and vectorNTI, i keep the alien fx off when im on battery, but leave it on when im plugged in
only issue i have with it, is the screen, if you are out in the sunlight, you will get glare, but your eyes will adjust to it
for me, since i travel a lot, its my main PC, it tags along with g9x. sadly theres only 3 usb ports and only 1 high power one. i have a cell phone, usb drives, g9x which take up all the slots, but its not bad
at home i attach it to my 22'' lcd and usb keyboard, and it works out great.
and i paid 1100 for this when it came out a year ago, in march or so, and i felt it was worth it as im happy with it, though i should have waited for the i3/5/7 processors, but i had to get it asap as i was using a god aweful mac and needed something portable and able to run sc2
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On February 27 2011 15:22 BoldMan wrote:
considering its $710+ i sure fucking hope it will run it well on utlra highest settings
i got this laptop for $400, runs sc2 perfectly on low, didn't really try higher settings yet because its arbitrary running sc2 on higher graphics; everything is fine on LOW
pokebunny, i don't really know your background, but if you're a rich kid who doesn't feel bad buying pointlessly expensive stuff, then i guess do whatever you want
but alienwares are meant for higher-end gaming, not SC2
you should try to do a bit of research if you're trying to save money, but it all depends on computer purposes and budget
Are you kidding me? $710... that's something like £500. And for that money i would be surprised to get something that would play an new-ish games at all. Such a bizarre thing to imagine when you look realistically at the cost of computers, not just "Uuuuh, $710 seems like lots of money, I hope I could get a fucking Ferrari with sports pack and penis enlarger included for that".
What on earth kinda world do people live in when they are looking for something to play games on ultra, for £500? You have to be prepared to pay for performance!! It's not even necessarily about being a "rich kid" (a term which comes across, and i find somewhat derogatory by the way)- it's about investing in something, and putting good money into it, so that it won't be a pain in the backside 2 months down the line, for the next 2 years.
Don't waste £500 on something dodgy, when you could use £1000 for something you will be very happy with for a good long while.
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Hey Guys,
Just saw this post. i have an m11x r2 (i5) with 4gb and an ssd. This is my primary computer. but i don't play a ton of games. i will try not to post anything that has already been said, and instead try to put in new information.
my situation: i travel alot for work, which means sitting in hotel rooms by myself, so i wanted something decent. i also need to travel with a work laptop, and didn't want the burden of carrying two heavier machines. this thing is very light, small and a great form factor. i actually fit this in a normal laptop bag, with my 14inch work laptop (hp) without a problem. this is a huge feature for me. i bought the laptop refurbished from dell in early september of 2010, i paid about 600 shipped with 4gb ram and bluetooth, i added a 240gb ssd drive around thanksgiving.
hdmi out is awesome, basically you can send the video and audio out hdmi, so you can plug this thing into pretty much any hd tv, and watch a movie or something, i do this alot in my bedroom and its pretty sweet. windows 7 has some awesome plug and play for secondary display devices. i do keep a display port to vga adapter in my laptop bag, for the occasions where i need to plug into a projector or something.
i do have an external cdrom, but almost never use it, its not needed, i definitely dont carry this around with me.
i have played only the following games on it
heroes of newerth - runs flawless high settings
war3/dota - runs good on intel graphics (good battery life)
league of legends - runs kind of shitty, but playable.
my complaints are the following.
no gigabit lan sucks, my house is now gigabit, and not having a cdrom means i store a ton of stuff on the network, the fact that this doesnt have gigabit lan is retarded.
usb 3.0. would have liked to see usb 3.0 on this, but its rare and there arent alot of laptops with it. i actually held off on buying this when the r1 came out, because i was hoping r2 would have usb 3.0 when r2 came out and didnt have usb 3.0 i bought it anyway, as the comparing models didn't come close in size/speed/price
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also some things to note when i read this thread.
someone above said only one high power usb. the small lightning bolt on that usb port does not imply high power, it simply means that you can charge a device in this port with the laptop off. but i believe the laptop needs to eb on outlet power, (there may be a setting in the bios to override this) there is no high power usb port.
another person above said they get 10 hours around campus, this is definitely a lie, as doing absolutely nothing on the machien, with the screen at the dimmest setting will give you about 6 hours. however it does last for a long time in standby.
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