The 16.1" Screen..Good?

Hey Sidewinder! It's Rotec from the WhatLaptop forums The 15.4" screen does incorporate a faster response rate, although many 16.1" owners do state that they do not notice any ghosting when playing fast paced games. However I cannot comment personally, as I currently own the 15.4" screen that I am extremely pleased with!

Hey Sidewinder! I hope you like it here. The 16.1 inch is just like the 15.4 inch only it has -2 speakers and it is 3/4 of an inch longer diagonally. Think of the 15.4 as the widescreen of laptops. Some people prefer it for gaming for the extra advantage of the horizontal view of the surroundings. (FPS, etc.)

I had a 16.1" model for around a week and the screen is not terribly wonderful - it lacks brightness and response times are indeed pretty poor. The widescreen panel offered by Alienware is certainly better, but still not exactly ideal.

i have the 16.1 inch screen right now. I have no real complaints... the response time seems about the same as the 15.4 inch screen I had on my Dell 8600. The screen is definatley brighter out the box, but it can all be adjusted.

I play Soldier of Fortune 2 every day because i'm on a clan and I couldn't be happier with the 16.1." Alienware LCD.

people have some good arguments for getting and for not getting the 16.1" over at this thread.

http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=21646

I'm not sure that the 3.2GHz Expensive Edition is worth the extra cash =/ If anything the 3.4GHz CPU is a better bet. Remember you can always send your Area 51m back to the factory for an exchange of CPU later down the line

The 16.1" LCD is in a 4:3 format - The 15.4" LCD is indeed in a widescreen format. In the world of A/V widescreen is considered to be more suited to the human eye's field of view. Imho, whilst playing fps games the screen allows you to see more of the action rather than the surrounding sky

C&C, or at least Zero Hour runs perfectly on my machine. Far Cry runs incredibly well with all settings on 'very high' @ 1024x768. You can see in-game screenshots with FRAPS FPS counter taken from my Area 51m at www.laptopshowcase.co.uk under the reviews section I also achieve a nice average of 38.5fps in the Doom 3 alpha demo, which is poorly coded!

The SiS chipset is not capable of dual-channel operation, but I doubt that has a significant impact on overall system performance. Although encoding formats such as MPEG2 to MPEG4 will benefit in terms of time taken when using dual-channel memory.

Just got my laptop delivered today. It totally rocks. I had high expectations before I got it and I have to confess it has met and exceeded them.

I have 16" screen and I must be 1 of the lucky 1's with no dead pixels, ghosting glare etc. It is 1 of the best screens I seen in a while. I am completely blown away with the 16". I haven't tried games yet but from I have seen so far I don't really care.

I also have the 3.2 Ghz extreme which I thought Alienware had sneakily given me a standard 3.2 as the bios says 3.2 and XP also just says 3.2. But having downloaded the Intel CPU ID software and installed it , it has indeed got 2MB of L3 cache.

By the way, I have updated the system with all my usual crap and it has runs flawlessly. Including my Linksys WPC54G wireless lan card. Everything I have modified the system with is installed and runs like a dream.
My Dell Inspiron 8000 next to it now looks like a Reliant Robin Car next to the Alienware sh1t off a shovel Ferrari rocket machine.

I cannot so far fault any part of this System out of the box. I'm gobsmacked...!!

yeah, mine has the 16.1 inch screen too and I just got it last Satirday and I had no dead pixels, ghosting or any other problmes... he he he...

Personal adviser It's what I'm here for! I believe I am the only Alienware owner on the What Laptop forums so whenever a member asks for information on the Area 51m/Sentia I'm usually the first to reply

May I suggest something else? If not do not read the below paragraph! lol

Perhaps opt for the 60Gb hard drive due to the increased 7,200rpm. The hard drive is the bottle neck of many computer systems now that CPU/GPU's are so powerful. The increased revolutions per minute will allow the read/write heads to access and retrieve data in a shorter space of time. This may be made apparent in loading times of computer games. It depends on what is more important to you - Space or general loading times

What I may do in the future is install a 80Gb+ from Alienware in the Smart Bay and save general information to the drive. Any games can then be installed on the 60Gb drive for performance reasons. Although perhaps by then the 80Gb drives will be 7,200rpm However to install a second hard drive the optical drive needs to be removed. I personally use no CD cracks so that the game runs without a CD (Not all games have cracks available) - Perfect if you need to remove the DVD-ROM drive and perfect so that you do not need to carry around CD's with you! However I'm not sure it is seen by the higher powers as legal ...

Nice parents lol Tell 'em that it will help dramatically towards your education and that everyone else has a laptop - Should do the trick! Although I'm sure many students like yourself will opt for laptops at some stage. I know many who have in my year ...

I'd hold out for awhile in terms of the EE processors until prices decrease! As for laptop hard drives there is a 100Gb @ 5,400rpm already available for purchase! Just have to wait and see

Laptop hard drives are far more expensive in comparison to standard desktop units. This is because they are physically small in size (2.5") and only consist of two disks on the internal spindle. The Hitachi 60Gb @ 7,200rpm used in Area 51m configurations is £144 inc. VAT from www.dabs.com, known for their low prices! I would guess 100Gb would be approximately £220-300 inc. VAT due to the massive storage capacity