Alienware M11x Realtime Performance on battery

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.

Alienware M11x Light Effects

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...

The easiest way to rip an ISO from a CD or DVD

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...