It weighs 9.39 pounds, not counting the two-pound power brick, which is heavy even for a performance laptop. The Alienware M17x R4 looks exactly like its predecessor: one solid hunk of gaming machine. The average battery life of the last three performance laptops tested was just 3 hours, 35 minutes, and the EON17-S’s battery life is even lower, at just 2 hours, 33 minutes. In our battery life tests, the M17x R4 chugged along for 5 hours, 21 minutes, which is the longest of any of our performance laptops. The mobile GeForce GTX 680M seems to offer a big performance boost over earlier generations of Nvidia high end mobile graphics chips. The M17x’s performance in DiRT3 was equally impressive, posting 65.6 frames per second at 1920 x 1080, Ultra Quality. In our Crysis 2 graphics tests, the M17x hit frame rates of between 43.1 (maximum-level quality settings, 1920 by 1080 pixel resolution) and 96.1 (low quality settings, 800 by 600 resolution). Thanks to the new Kepler-based graphics card, graphics and gaming performance on the M17x R4 is very good. That said, the M17x R4 still lags behind the category leader, the Origin EON17-S, which has a WorldBench 7 score of 200 and sports an Intel Extreme Edition i7-3920XM processor. It’s a good score for the performance/gaming laptop category-about 20 points higher than the average score (121.7) of the last three performance laptops we’ve tested. This means that the M17x R4 is 46 percent faster than our testing model, which sports a second-generation Intel i5-2500K desktop processor, 8GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card. The Alienware M17x R4 scores a very acceptable 146 in PCWorld’s WorldBench 7 benchmark tests.
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The M17x runs a 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium.
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Connection-wise, you’ll find built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, as well as a 2.1-megapixel webcam. The system also has 8GB of RAM (upgradeable to 32GB), a Kepler-based Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M discrete graphics card, a 500GB hard drive, and a Blu-ray reader/DVD-RW combo drive. Our review unit, which costs $1974 as configured, packs a third-generation Intel Core i7-3720QM processor-one of the most powerful mobile Ivy Bridge processors on the market.
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