Here’s a demo of how the Alienware m11x runs on the battery. I tested out halflife 2 as well as dragon age origins. Both run great even on the lowest power settings.

This should be my last post on this machine, I’ve just been so impressed by it that i had to encourage others to purchase it.

So after setting up my new alienware m11x I decided to start playing with the fx settings. Overall the settings are very cool. Once you check the box that enables advanced settings, you can set colors for each application.

Heres a video I made demonstrating it.

It’s not 100% perfect. Sometimes the lights will flicker when stuff is loading. Also when running games from steam the colors go back to the default setting.  It sets the color for steam.exe, but when launching games, the computer sees it as running another executable. I’m sure if you dig around the steam program file you can set it up though.

Thanks all for now!

I just Became the proud owner of an alienware m11x. The machine is amazing, but I doesn’t come with a CD/DVD drive. So I had to come up with a way to access my DVDs and CDs on my new machine. After googling and talking to friends of mine I decided to create an ISO (which is a copy of the CD) and put the ISO file on my new laptop via an external hard drive transfer. Then I would have to use somewhere to run the ISO like it was a normal CD.

Moving back to the point of this post, I needed to wade through the internet’s crappiest free somewhere to find a good way to create a solid ISO file from CDs. That’s when I came across ISO Recorder. It’s a simple software that lets you rip the CD without launching some crappy software. You install it, then you can right right-click on your CD drive and click “create copy(ISO)”. Usually takes about 2-3 minutes. After that you have a clean CD image.

ISOrecoreder was created by alexfeinman and he shares it for free on his website. Also feel free to click on his donate button and buy him a beer for this great gem.

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm