Newest DELL Alienware M17x R4 laptop review

As a production high quality interface card with enterprise, DELL in recent years will reach further on each field, in the field of notebook with out of distinctive products and become the new forces of the market, after we launched for everybody in the mainstream entertainment too much DELL notebook positioning testing, there is no lack of among them some distinctive products, such as first carrying the N82JV USB3.0 interface, the 370 M processor KuRui i3 A40 and other products, and more recently with video card manufacturer DELL and NVIDIA product upgrade steps launched a pick up the latest NVIDIA 4 series products of the display card-Alienware M17x R4  notebook.

In 2009, the release of DX11 for graphics update coming again, whole series ATi DirectX 11 mobile graphics processor including ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5800, ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5700, ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5600 and ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5400, products cover the high end to the low end of the market from, and AMD/ATi aspects also announced the release of this series of products will promote the laptop into DX11 era. And at the same time, the old rival ATi and NVIDIA but no rush to enter DX11 era, is still holding DX10.1 camp, but in order to deal with the challenges of the old rivals, NVIDIA or in the end of 2009 announced the launch of new 3 series video card products, and product range from the high performance positioning of the GTS, performance level of the positioning of the GeForce GT to mainstream series, and before the series products with 2, compared with the performance of the GT335 level position is to change the biggest, the flow of as many as 72 processor can provide users with higher graphics
performance. And in 2010 years, NVIDIA is finally in the notebook products introduced a new support DX11 4 series of video card products.

At present known 4 series covering the top of the GTX graphics performance level, the GT two series, which include 480 GTX M, 470 M and 460 M three items, including the 445 M GT series, 435 M and 425 M, 420 M and 415 M 5 of products, and today we're for all of this evaluation Alienware M17x R4  is a carrying GT 425 M mainstream entertainment products.

Of course, as a location in the mainstream of entertainment field of the new products, Alienware M17x R4  nature won't be only four series graphics such a killer, this kind of appearance design won iF China design award products except as a very good appearance design to bring users vision enjoyment, at the same time it has B&O speakers such alone door weapon, from visual to hearing all the users can enjoy excellent. In addition to this product at the KuRui i5 520 M processor, 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz high-speed memory and 500 GB of hard drive capacity but also for users of high speed applied to provide the good foundation. As a 14 "notebook products, Alienware M17x R4  354 x246x23 ~ 35 mm body size and 2.406 kg weight of single machine with a 9cell DELL Alienware M17x R4 battery, in portable sex is not too serious.

Alienware M17x R4  adopted A new design of the mould, because the fuselage design is very great, so also won the 2010 iF China design award, except in the face using aluminum alloy material + A metal wiredrawing effect outside combination, Alienware M17x R4  designers also for this product design A new wave of streamline design side, at the same time in the fuselage bottom surface without screw holes net surface design.

Alienware M17x R4  B surface or used the traditional style of the design, but there are characteristics of a camera parts, DELL designer for this type of product design the camera lens cover what the hardware, through the push-pull type switch users can keep out a camera, so as to prevent others misappropriation peeping purpose.

The design in C, the integral style of the Alienware M17x R4  are similar to previous NX90 series, but the difference is DELL designer for this product using piecewise type design style, the above two screen keyboard is among the axis Alienware M17x R4  speakers speaker, this area is independent of C face fuselage, using a metal gray hue. But the keyboard and C face palm is "parts are used for the dark grey and iron gray mass-tone tone.

In Alienware M17x R4  right palm on "B&O ICEPower sound system level to the certification logos, is proof that Alienware M17x R4  sound system through the B&O ICEPower sound system level the authentication, in a complete set sound solution for the user to provide the excellent audio playback effect.

dell Alienware M17x R4  keyboard using separate design, key area is larger, with good touch feeling, and touch the board are used the design of unifinication, and the surface of the face of the same with A metal wiredrawing effects processing, and touch panel buttons are used plating surface effect processing.

In the interface design, this kind of Alienware M17x R4  has 2 USB2.0 interface, 1 USB3.0 interface, 1 USB2.0 interface, eSATA/May 1 HDMI, 1 D-SUB interface, 1 RJ-45 and 1 group audio, mike combination interface, and a built-in SD/MMC/MS/xD card reader, can satisfy most users use daily needs.

And for the user the expansion of the care ability, Alienware M17x R4  user can memory, hard disk expansion/upgrades, and for such a used the surface have no net surface design screw holes and memory, hard disk adopted the mainstream specification hardware products for, users upgrade will not so urgent desire.

Alienware M17x R4  wite DELL BTYVOY1 Battery based on the latest 32 nm process KuRui platform design, the Intel KuRui i5 520 M dual-core processor, KuRui i5 520 M processor, 4 GB DDR3 1333 MHz memory and NVIDIA GT 425 M graphics, 5000 GB hard drive combination of high speed cope with the present most mainstream application or not a problem.

KuRui i5 520 M is in early 2010 Intel issued three paragraphs in the position of i5 processor products. KuRui i5 520 M of the original 2.4 GHz frequency, after ruling frequency technology after 3.06 GHz can increase, level 3 for 3 MB cache, processor as dual core and support HT hyper-threading technology, has dual core four thread processing power, the power consumption of the thermal design for the TDP 35 W.