The Alienware m15x is Dead!

I have to disagree with your choice of polling options, because while I personally will always opt for a 17" (or larger) gaming notebooks, I do hold that the discontinuation of the 15" line is a poor business decision.

For those that are looking for more mobility than I am (I want to be able to move around the house and take it with me for trips but don't often carry it around normally), the 15" provides that mix of power and mobility that I'm not sure you can get on a smaller system without having even bigger cooling problems.

I've always thought that the 11" gamer was just gimmick (I've never tried one so I may be wrong) but it doesn't seem like porting from a 15" platform to a 14" platform is a good move for them, especially when the people that will be buying these systems should know the problem that likely will come from less space in the case. Unless the rest of the industry follows suit, I can only think that they're limiting their market to the brand loyalists.

well my personal take is, "If I want a Gaming Notebook 17+ Inch Screens are where it's at", however I also think this is a "Bad Move; 15 Inch Gaming notebooks are the perfect blend between Gaming and Mobility" for those who want mobility. And I can't click both.

I guess I just don't like the qualifier attached to the indifferent option.

besides, you left off the fourth and most important option.

I think it doesn't matter that they got rid of the 15 incher's. Those things were thick and huge as 16 incher's anyway. I bet that's why they got rid of them.

Really?

Shut up Duke

of course

It still holds true Steve.

Personally I have to agree with the decision to get rid of the M15X I have one by the way, but size-wise it's almost too big to be portable. I've held it up to the 16" XPS that I had and it's even LARGER, which puts it more into the realm of most 17" notebooks. I had the M15X become my desktop replacement while I was activated on the mainland due to it's un-portability.

Exactly. The 15 inchers were as thick as mainstream 16 inchers thats why they wanted to get rid of it. I bet the m14x is as big as a mainstream 15 in laptop.

At 6.5 lbs (If I recall properly) yes the M14X has some heft. But it probably should be that heavy considering it has a stout gpu that needs to stay cool.

The 13 inch system is Truly what killed the 15 inch system. The 15 inch system just isn't good anymore and was never good to begin with because the components and SIZE are too close to the 17 inch version and what you end up getting is a 17 inch system with a 15 inch screen,literally which is just a huge bummer. Largest problem for M15x owners is that they haven't seen or truely analyzed the m17x R2 system or even owned it and just sit back comfortably telling themselves they've saved a few hundred dollars and they are "More Portable" as dougadamsfan has done. The M15x was NEVER a good system to get, and what I mean is I WOULD NEVER EVER suggest a family member of friend to get the m15x system. Why? Well the cons of the M15x were just too high and the only justification the system has was it was a cheaper price, but with that cheaper price you lost out on too many goodies. Goodies included, a second GPU, second HDD, higher res screen, RGB LED, Full Keyboard, better cooling setup, Aluminum or Magneisum oh and Less Throttling Issues, and Factory ATI 5870's. Yes i know you can self mod the 5870's into the system yourself, but you wont' be supported on a warranty, and alot of individuals such as myself would never stray to settling for a GPU W/O the warranty. The weight difference was about 2 lbs, but if you check out my M17x R3 system it blows out the m15x out of the water and was priced at the same price point, thus Bye Bye M15x.

This is what I mean by 17 inch system with 15 inch screen:


More annoying then anything was the simple fact was that this system still had a Crap Battery life overall, when compared to anything else. It's previous ancestor of the core 2 series? Well that one had intergrated Graphics that gave it roughly around 3.5 hours. You'd be lucky to get an hour with a M15x i7 series, which completely takes away from it's portability. So again why did you get the M15x? Oh it was a cheap man's M17x R2.... I've already ordered the m14x system and yea it's pretty safe to assume that I've owned at one point or another every alienware system since Dell's Takeover of Alienware And the last thing I wanna say about the M15x portability, YOU'RE STILL USING THE SAME BAG AS YOU WOULD WITH AN M17X R2 SYSTEM, FFS!!!! After reading my post does it still shock you that they killed off the 15 inch system?
Edited by darkloki - 5/7/11 at 10:56pm

I wanna see a comparison picture between the M15x and the m14x.

Maybe they should have made a new 15 incher that wasn't a 17" sized elephant, like the original area 51 M15x, or the currently more powerful 15" sager/clevos.
The last M15X was an absurdity IMO, no reason to downgrade the line with a mid ranged GPU 14" with no high res and a single fan [which is apparently noisy as] and degrade the 17 R3 to the same or less power than the oppositions 15.6" models

Somewhat agree with you, but I don't think your posts acknowledges the release of a M18x System which has become the new M17x R2 power house. I think the ultimate problem is that they're all using the same CPU's and roughly same cooling setup. If they would release systems and actually try to change the cooling setups to case specific scenarios they could have far superior and mobile systems. (Point and case m11x system) yeah the m11x isn't nearly as customizable as the others but it was built case specific to meet the demands of the users and owners. Get away from Poor Man M17x Idea and then they'll have a fruitful design and setup, but again all of this is just my personal opinion.

Well, I would never even entertain the idea of an 18.4" notebook personally, but I'm sure plenty will buy it because it's "new", in reality the M18X is a downgrade in a bigger form for the R2, just need to look at screen options to see that, just because it's bigger, doesn't make it better.....just bigger