How Good Is a $1000 Alienware M11X Gaming Laptop From 2010?
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Today we're taking a look at an Alienware M11X R2 from late 2010. This tiny machine was once the "smallest gaming laptop you could buy" but it certainly wasn't the cheapest.
The M11XR2 has some pretty cool features as well as a unique Windows theme, but ultimately it's not withstood the test of time very well...
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Lol I remember seeing only one guy take it into middle school in 2010, and using it to flex it to other kids lol.
Tbh i would flex with it too
That might of been me was this in california..
Didn't he fear other kids breaking it out of jealousy?Personally i wouldn't flex it to anyone but to use it for its purpose😆
@@hirokakhand6584 doubt anyone had the balls for it, i can only imagine the consequences
@@hirokakhand6584 yeah in my middle school if anyone had anything pricey tryna flex they just break it
I love how chunky the bezzels are and how smol the entire laptop is
I too love shitty stuff!
Thicc bezzel look good on Thicc laptop
@@Phenom98 lmao
@@Phenom98 what’s so bad about big bezels and it being small I think it looks better than new laptops tbh
In my opinion 2010 to 2013 was the best years for me cause crap was more peaceful than now
Whenever I buy/sell a component, a week later, you make a video on it. Usually the exact variant too, like the GDDR4 1030, or the triple slot 7970, as well as the R5 340X and this laptop. I swear!
Similar to me. I have just bought an Alienware M17x and now my favorite pc Tech RUclipsr releases a video about M11x.
@@djbl3nd523 is it good
@@LanaaAmor Well it released in 2009 so not really for today. But I use it for Cloud Gaming.
@@LanaaAmor I had a M11x R3 a few years back.
Good:
Small, portable, looks cool, and surprisingly good battery life (64.5W)
Bad:
No longer a gaming laptop, don't treat it like one.
@@revolver265 oh I'm sorry, I assumed it'd be from 2017/16 given the name m17x, I didn't know it's that old 😩
It looks cool and nostalgic today but back in the day, nearly 900GBP for a low voltage i5, 2GB of RAM and a GT335(not even a GTS or GTX GPU) would have been a huge ripoff, which isn't surprising considering it's an Alienware machine.
Agreed. I bought a cheap Acer with i5 450m, GT 425M and 4gb ram in late 2010 for a measly $400. It was an excellent machine that served me for nearly 5 years, also for light gaming during vacations.
it's still a huge rip off for £200
It really wasn't particularly, in 2009/2010 good quality laptops were not cheap and core processors of any kind already had a substantial premium.
In fact I am surprised how cheap it was back then considering it is an Alienware, and much smaller than the standard of the time (there hasn't been a time where you didnt pay a premium for smaller).
yea, my family pc was bought around 2008 for around 500 euros, and for having i5 second gen, 4gb of ram, gt 430 and a 500gb ssd i gotta say it was a pretty good deal
These things back in the day were more powerful than a lot of people’s normal home desktops and it didn’t really have any competition at the time
Oh wow, what a classic. I almost bought one of these when I was in college.
Honestly that looks like a really cool piece of tech to own at least, I'm sure you won't get much usage out of it but if you maintain it well enough for sure it will end up in a museum some time.
My friend, all the good games STOPPED around 2010! Before 2010, I could just buy a game, play it on my own, maybe buy an expansion pack or two, and just have some fun. Now I have to buy my games as "buggy beta releases", I have to play them online, buy DLC's and other game cheats to keep up with everyone, keep pumping money into it and still get trounced by a teenager that spends 24x7 practising each game online anyway.
Good riddance to modern games!
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I do totally agree though...but I think that the game industry peeked at around 2015, having tittles like CSGO, GTA V, all these greats that we know nowadays. Personally I play a bunch of Rocket League, CSGO and Age of Empires, I still love my RTS games, I really do, all the CoH saga, C&C, AOE, Warcraft 3, it's a shame that not so many people play it because it's really fun but as any game, playing alone it's boring. I do have the luck that my brothers like the same games as me so I can play at all time :D
@@hunterfabio If you enjoy modern gaming then good luck to you. Doom 2016 really shocked me, I hated it - any player agency is gone from that game now. If I play a Doom game, I just want to shoot stuff - I don't want the game flow broken up by animations of eyeballs popping or spines being ripped out. It gets boring very quickly. Serious Sam 3 had the same problem compared to the earlier games.
I did buy and enjoy Fallout 4 back in 2015 and I still like indie gaming and retro gaming, but there's absolutely nothing else since that interests me. I still keep a heap of old laptops around for LAN gaming - the only multiplayer gaming I want to do is Quake/Unreal Tournament/Red Alert/Warcraft LAN party games occasionally with friends and a few beers.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I like the Dark Souls games, mainly because they play like nicer old SNES and Megadrive games. Linear, very hard, very good gameplay, almost no story telling and cutscenes, and no annoying tutorials either. I love it for that.
@@stanstaniboy7655 I have heard the Dark Souls games are good, I've never really got around to playing them. I came from a home computer background anyway, so ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga, as opposed to consoles. But I am realising how many good early console games I missed through retro-gaming them now.
Technology from the 2010s are like the 1970s in today's world
Haha I get what you mean to be honest. Laptops especially have really improved over the years
@@RandomGaminginHD HOW? HOW THE HECK MAN??? I WAS JUST SEARCHING UP FOR A GOOD, USED GAMING LAPTOP (ALBEIT A BIT CHEAPER ONE) JUST A FEW HOURS EARLIER ACTUALLY WISHING THAT U OR SOME OTHER UTUBER WOULD MAKE A VIDEO ON IT AND HERE U R MAKING A VIDEO ON IT!!!! LIKE SERIOUSLY THIS IS NEXT LEVEL TELEPATHY MY DUDE....THANK YOU SOOO MUCH :-)
The desktop on this is very 90's, it's practically vapor-wave aesthetics
@@RandomGaminginHD Pascal was a HUGE stepup. The laptop 1080 was multiple times faster than a gtx 980m.
@@siyzerix ah brother
You follow RGin HD too
All these old hardware reviews you do are the reason your are my favorite tech channel 👍
The video I have been waiting for! I always wanted one of these things
I remember seeing it in local electronics store and trying to convince my parents that I totally need this particular laptop and not anything else xD
Thank you so much for making this!!
Glad you have tested one of these, they look amazing.
Great video as usual, thank you!
I still have this laptop and by far it’s the best one I ever had. I bought it back in 2010 for my last 2 years of college. I remember Dell replacing the screen for free after the warranty expired due to a design flaw on the hinges. I bought it with the i7 processor and later I upgraded to 8gb RAM and a Samsung SSD which was not fully used because the laptop was not SATA 3.
Same here. I have the C2D original version and had the LCD replaced twice. Ended up with the newer design in 2013 and retired the machine shortly after. I still have the little guy today boxed up in the cupboard.
Can this M11x R2 handle 16gb of RAM 🐏
The R1 variant of the m11x was my first computer I bought out of college in 2010, on clearance for $500 (with about $400 worth of upgrades, accessories and a warranty, of course). Lasted me 5 memorable years of emulators, Borderlands 1, WoW and TF2 before a lightning strike, literally, struck it down. That got me back into PC building, and I ended up rebuilding it 3 years ago for about what you paid for yours, with a SU4100 instead of the SU7300 it originally had. Still runs to this day, with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD. Thanks for reminding me of a treasured piece of nostalgia.
Can this M11x R2 handle 16gb of RAM 🐏
I do have that one. I was waiting this video for years
Had one of them back in the days. Was awesome little beast
Got this for high school graduation in June 2011 was such an amazing time of my life, play Bad Company 2 & Test Drive Unlimited 2 was all I did for months
lol i love how you test GTA V with almost everything you review it clears my curiosity out aswell!
On something this old I would recommend taking out the battery, you never know when one day it might become massive and catch fire
I think it’s soldered
@@Graphics_Card never heard of anyone soldering a battery connector to a mainboard...
@nunya oh. My computer motherboard has it soldered
@@Graphics_Card weird... what computer do you have?
@@Graphics_Card Stop buying MacBooks then
I bought one of these way back in the day brand new for college but had the R1 model with a core 2 duo, the ability to enable a CPU overclock in the BIOS was insane back then. Being able to run crysis on an 11 inch laptop was unheard of at the time, I’ve always wished they would bring back a small gaming laptop like this, I wouldn’t be able to buy one fast enough
Well done. I enjoyed it a lot.
This was my wife's 1st gaming computer. We ordered it and I didn't realize that we "pre-ordered" it. Waited 4 mos to get ours. She enjoyed it enough though. We played lots and lots of hours of City of Heroes together with her on this and I on a custom pc.
I had one of these back in the day. Loved it at the time. Ahh good memories of Late nights playing league, all the time regretting the purchase and wishing I got something larger lol
Moving is hard but your videos help alot
You are so underrated I love your content 👍👍👍
Thanks :)
I still have mine, after a year of saving, this was my daily driver back in middle school, bought it second hand though, I played the conplete series of dead space, gta IV with DLCs, Unreal Tournament III, Crysis (yes, 1 and 2) at mid config, but it was able to run it over 30 😅
30FPS used to just be the standard for PC gaming a decade or so ago, just like 60FPS is today, even for a desktop. I had one of these back when they were new and have some fond memories. Playing whatever was new at the time, in a portable package at nice/playable settings was awesome.
Oh my that's brought back some memories
Damn. During my bachelor years I dreamed of this laptop. Tiny enough to fit on my backpack, but it can game.
wait til you see the steam deck
xddd
Great vid!
I had this laptop and i loved it. It had good power and a really good design (for me)
I still have that laptop! Mine is silver, though. Still works great! A bit slow, but good for minor stuff. It revived after I added an SSD, but the first generation i7 processor is a low point.
Is the GPU soldered on or can it be replaced?
@@MyNameIsBucket it is soldered if i wasn't wrong
If you don't need any Windows specific programs throw Linux on it. It's perfectly usable with Linux Mint and I imagine it would be fine with other distros such as PopOS as well.
@@MyNameIsBucket even if it wasn’t soldered it wouldn’t matter, that cpu would be a bottleneck even for a 1050
@@joesladden9914 Which is why I'd prefer something more reasonable like a 940M.
Please do more old gaming laptops, Thank you!
Great video bro... Your biggest fan from India bro.
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Had a i3 370m, 1GB Radeon 5650m, 8GB HP Pavilion back then. Played plenty of Planetside 2 for a few years on that.
Oooh the garden is poppin!!!
1:20 you really have a way with words. A true poet
Such a cool laptop! definitely a collectors item i'm looking for.
Had it boxed. Should have never sold it :/
I have it but it's screen has lines in it so useless
I have one in mint condition from 2010. I never used the keyboard (external only) and kept it in pristine condition and the LCD was replaced in 2013 with the newer design due to the notorious hinge issue.
I got an m14x 😜
I love HDMI and the display port combo. It must be there nowadays too...at least on a workstation laptop.
I had one of these as a sophomore in highschool. I loved it and played tons of MW2, Portal 1 &2, HL2, Fallout, and Skyrim.
Little did you know then that you was playing the best games and gaming never really improved since then. Now we have all this computing power at hand and nothing good ( in last few years ) to really show for it. Good times
I bought a R1 version in Dezember 2020 for 105€ , awesome how u do a review about it months later.
i had this and a m15x and m17x they were amazing
I had one of these. Fond memories.
"This can actually be placeed on your lap Without the wary of damaging anything that's vital to the future of your family name" lmao that was a good one
That's not what I heard they say laptops are bad 🤔
@@mkratos17 not as much as a cell phone.
I was actually just thinking about this laptop a couple days ago. I picked mines up from Ebay in 2010 with no hard drive, no ram & no network card. I installed a Bigfoot Killer network card, 240gb SSD & maxed out the ram to the highest rated spec. I remember going out on a boat trip with my family & playing COD MW2 down in the cabin as we were anchored between a couple islands. I think I still have the Alienware skin package & Alienware Sound files for this laptop on a thumbdrive somewhere.
Got you a lil spider-buddy! :3 Great review! I miss these kinda goofy aesthetics.
I had the M14XR2 as my first gaming PC. My Dad bought it for me in 2010 as an early Christmas gift. Thing worked wonders for about a year or two. It would get extremely hot and the performance of the PC dipped by 80-90% in-game.
My father did the same for me in 2011 M15x
Thus was my first gaming laptop ! Retired it in 2015
great video
Hey mate, I know this isn't your forte, but what with Universities soon to go back, it would be nice if you could do a video about what to look out for when buying second hand laptops that people can actually afford, something second hand between the £150 - £350 range. I appreciate I'm just a random commenter and you can do what you like however, just an idea really. Either way, loving your videos man
I loved the aesthetics of these chunky early to mid 2010s laptops. I wish they still made laptops that were as thick as this.
They kind of do now. But not really ones for under $2k because the more powerful laptops are the chunkiest. They're much bigger on thinner designs than anything these days. And one thing I hate about these kind of manufactures is how they try to shove powerful hardware into such a small form factor it was never meant to be in the first place. Thus over heating issues arise. So yeah they need to just stick with the chunky designs because its much more efficient that way anyway.
3:56 so we just not going to acknowledge the little spider dude chilling up there on the bezel
I’ve had multiple older Alienware laptops and they are really good and age very well, even the newer ones to this that had the 2nd and 3rd gen i7 CPU’s. The ones with MXM upgradable glue are worth getting definitely
I used to have one in my army days.
It wasn't quite what I expected it to be.
Mine had an i7 with the lowest 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard drive.
The light nvidia 335M wasn't anything special but did the job, was compact and nice.
Upgrades included RAM to 8GB, and a 256GB SSD, which improved things drastically.
The overtightened screen hinge disintegrated the plastic bracket it was glued to on the display, I first glued it back, and eventually replaced the whole assembly.
I also replaced the keyboard but that was because I didn't take the laptop apart properly the first time..
The rubberized coating also failed with time and I eventually scraped it off.
The heat sink fins got clogged with dust multiple times, and needed to be cleaned, which meant disassembling the whole laptop, luckily I learned from my mistake the first time.
Owned one of these for years. Upgraded the ram and harddrive myself after a bit of owning it. Only issue I've ever had with it was the left hinge on screen. It snapped and I just ended up selling the whole thing after discovering how many bits and bobs I had to remove to get to the hinge, wasn't worth it. Great laptop though, 110% would buy another if they sold an updated spec version haha.
After using an Alienware, I cannot use any other gaming laptops.
I still got my old M17R1 or R2, the one with changed design in around 2013 and that one still works like a charm.
It'll be amazing to see a comparison video between this laptop on stock config and this laptop with highest supported Ram and a SSD upgrade... 👏🏻
Can this M11x R2 handle 16gb of RAM 🐏
HOW? HOW THE HECK MAN??? I WAS JUST SEARCHING UP FOR A GOOD, USED GAMING LAPTOP (ALBEIT A BIT CHEAPER ONE) JUST A FEW HOURS EARLIER ACTUALLY WISHING THAT U OR SOME OTHER UTUBER WOULD MAKE A VIDEO ON IT AND HERE U R MAKING A VIDEO ON IT!!!! LIKE SERIOUSLY THIS IS NEXT LEVEL TELEPATHY MY DUDE....THANK YOU SOOO MUCH :-)
this is i be waiting for
Fixed up my friends one a yr ago. Upgraded gpu to 5xxx hd series. Top possible. Still running fantastic. I7 720 it has and 8gb ram
looks OP!
I'm really reminiscent to the ASUS G750JW... that was my total dream laptop when it was around and I was about 14. Man, if you could get a hold of that, I'd be really excited!!
With throttle stop running these at the time we’re little beasts and rugged as hell. Still have mine even today.
3:51 "LCD Display" people saying that is my pet peeve
ram memory
Like! Cuz u actually made a MW2 gameplay! I got this laptop in 2020 just for MW2 and barely found any videos about it.
Never mind, it was the r1 version 😬.
I don't know much about the Nvida 335 GPU, But realize that very old games and Web browsing is best for this Laptop. More Ram would also help Randomgaming. I'm kinda curious about R15 numbers with this U processor as well. Thanks for the look back review on the M1X R2.
I think I still have my m14 Alienware laptop lying around somewhere lol, the thing was a beast back then
This was actually my daily driver until this year when I finally upgraded. Ran perfect with Linux Mint and an SSD. Only issue was even from the factory the battery on these things sucked.
Linux has been my daily driver for almost two decades now and I can sympathise with the laptop battery issues. I build a lot of older and newer IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads with (Gentoo) Linux and I ALWAYS have to do some additional optimisation to set up fan controls and CPU throttling correctly - if you don't do that then battery drain is invariably excessive.
And, of course, a gaming laptop is always going to be pulling more current anyway to power a high performance video card and if the laptop starts getting dusty internally, the fan comes on more for cooling and burns even more "battery juice".
Well these days laps are more efficient plus you can usually upgrade the battery
On aliexpress if I good remember we can find the original battery and casing too . I will made a video of it after some times .
The link for the battery please dear colleagues do not delete this link to help other user to upgrade they computer too. Thanks
Can this M11x R2 handle 16gb of RAM 🐏
Also I just replaced the battery today (0725/23)
I had the M17X, one friend had the M15x (which was decent) and my other buddy had the M11X but I remember it not being the greatest. So glad I didn’t get the 3D screen 😅😆 you could “hack” the LED lights to pulse to music too. I use to have my front speakers 2 different colors
I LOVE mine and I still use it to play swtor and gw2, super portable and has great speakers
I had the original C2D version and played both SWTOR and GW2 on it. I still have it today but haven’t used it since around 2014. It’s my favourite laptop ever.
5:56 amazing Skyrim death animations
I wanted this kind of laptop back in 2010 after I graduated high school. But the computer place ran out of stock. Instead, my parents got me a Dell laptop that the salesperson said can play heavy games. I can't remember the model but I remembered it has an i7-540, and GT425m. That laptop ended up becoming my close friend for 8 years. It died in 2018.
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Should do a video on the xps m1730, that thing was a beast.
So cute and small for an alienware
Also very cool when alienware would preload with custom themes, made them feel more special than they do now.
I was _so_ close to buying one of these
I have the M11x R3 with gt540m that is a little better than 335m. This is my main laptop for 1 year ago. I love it dimensions and the possibility to change color on the keybord.
Very small than a 15 inch screen.
And the keybord touches busy the total place that is available. Incredible !!
In 2009 I bought a £3500 17" Alienware laptop :) It had a core 2 extreme (£1k upgrade) 2x120GB SSD Drives (another £1k upgrade) and crossfire gpus. The sad part was, a year later these i5/i7 series came out and wiped the floor with my dream machine.
My first ever gaming computer was an M14X and I loved that thing. Still have it too. Her hard drives gone kinda slow though.
I still kinda miss mine, was so much laptop i wasn't worried about it bumping something and breaking.
1:28 That cheeky joke though 🤣🤣
I love his videos he is one off the best tech you tubers out their
Thanks :)
@@RandomGaminginHD No problem
The Revision 3 with the highest spec were almost $3k new. I purchased 3 and still use one today.
I had one of these years ago, I bought replacement plastics to make it a red edition. I still have my name plaque that I took off before I sold it.
have one as used to take it to work and could do some light gaming along side paperwork and needed a back lit keyboard which was actually hard to find back then
Lol this is pretty nostalgic. I had an Alienware laptop back in 2014 that performed similarly to the 650ti, but I think what really killed performance on it was 1gb of VRAM. It would burn a hole through your crotch when playing an intensive game on it.
I remember wanting one of these so bad when I was in the 9th grade
I almost bought the M11X R3 when it came out. I would really like to see more 11" or 12" Laptops with powerful components
ive been thinking about buying one
I have the MX15 one and it still works
I had one in 2016! Good times... TF2 was totally playable, and so was COD Black ops... Mine was a higher specced i7 model
As of this moment i just bought my first M11X with i5 520UM and GT 335m for retro gaming of my old catalog from ps3 / xbox 360 era.
It’s still going!
I remember always wanting one, still want one, but cant justify getting one.
I really love the old school alienware laptop designs. It's just waaayyy more aggressive looking.
Exactly unlike the M18 rn looks plaina and boring
Oh, I've owned R3 myself. Fond memories, alot of them.
That spider around the 4 minute mark has great antialiasing. Seems almost like real. I guess it's because of the power of the gaming branding Alienware.
I might buy this!
Actually that Alienware custom Windows 7 theme was available online. I remember applied it on my PC back then. There were many custom themes for Windows 7 on Deviantart, lol
Had one of these for 2 days in 2010 before the HDD failed.
Built my first PC the next year.