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Following the redesign of its 17-inch gaming notebook flagship, Alienware went and gave the same extreme makeover to the M15x, its newest 15-inch notebook. Not only does this monster have the same intimidating looks as the M17x—a menacing grille and colored backlit keyboard—but, outfitted with an Intel Core i7 processor, it shattered a number of our benchmarks. Of course, like every Alienware machine, the M15x doesn’t come cheap (starting at $1,499, $2,574 as configured), but if you have the means you won’t be disappointed.

Design

Like the M17x, the front of the M15x has the angular looks of the redesigned Chevy Camaro. Our system had a Nebula Red finish, but it’s also available in Lunar Shadow (silver) and Cosmic Black. The red coloring only extends as far as the outer lid, sides, and chassis, so the inside and front of the system is black. The magnesium-alloy chassis is a departure from that of its predecessor, the Area-51 M15x, which experienced an issue with the plastic frame cracking due to overheating issues. Still, it adds to the size; this 14.9 x 12.2 x 1.9-inch heavyweight checks in at 9.0 pounds—and that’s without the AC adapter.

There aren’t any visible screws anywhere but on the customized aluminum name plate, which resides on the underbelly of the beast. Alienware managed to cram customizable color lights in several places, including the Alienware logo below the 15-inch (1920 x 1080-pixel resolution) display, along the touchpad, under the keyboard, on the Alienware head-shaped power button, and even on the back of the lid. The end result is that the M15x makes a very strong impression even before you fire up a single game.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The chunky keys on the M15x don’t have any flex to them, so it’s as if you’re typing on a legitimate desktop keyboard. Unlike the larger M17x, there’s no number pad, so you’ll have to use other keys to store all of your macros in games such as World of Warcraft. As mentioned, you can tweak all of the colored lights on the notebook, and Alienware even lets you adjust the keyboard by region. So, for example, you can have the far left of your keyboard glow blue, the middle-left glow red, the middle-right glow orange, and the far right glow green. It reminded us of a rainbow snow cone. Regardless of whether you stick with any particular pattern, it’s fun to experiment with all the possible combinations.

Above the keyboard are soft-touch buttons for ejecting Blu-ray discs, full media controls for skip and play/pause, volume controls, a wireless launch button, and quick-launch buttons for the system’s AlienFusion control panel (one for controlling lights and another for its power-tweaking Stealth mode).

The touchpad on the M15x is large and flush with the wrist rest, except for a small glowing border; its honeycomb texture allows for swift finger glides across the surface. The two touchpad buttons provided good feedback, but if you’re playing a first-person shooter you’ll want to use a gaming mouse for quicker button presses.

Display and Audio

The 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080-pixel display on the M15x is nothing short of glorious. The edge-to-edge glass gives the system a sleek look, and while it kicked back some reflections, they weren’t much of a bother, even in nighttime scenes while playing games. The display was amazingly crisp and had great contrast; when watching a Blu-ray of Monsters, Inc., we could make out each individual strand of hair on Sulley (the monster voiced by John Goodman), and were impressed at how they waved when the character moved about.

Audio from the two front-mounted speakers was loud, but we were disappointed with their quality. When streaming music over Pandora (such as Eric Clapton’s “Five Long Years”), there was a lack of bass, and music had a tinny sound to it, even after adjusting the equalizer settings using the IDT Audio Control Panel. For this amount of money, we expected more. However, there was enough sound separation between the two speakers that we could hear and anticipate enemies coming toward us from either side when playing games such as Left 4 Dead.

Ports and Webcam

While the M15x has a good number of ports, we were surprised to see some omitted. On the left side of the unit are a DisplayPort for digital video, VGA, Ethernet, one USB, FireWire, and a 4-in-1 memory card reader. On the right is an ExpressCard/54 slot, two headphone, mic, USB, and a USB/eSATA combo port that can recharge devices even when the M15x is turned off. At this price point (and on this large of a chassis), we would have expected the more common HDMI as well. Unlike the M17x, the charging port is located on the left side of the M15x.

The 2-megapixel webcam on the M15x returned excellent images; over Skype, a caller could clearly make out our beard stubble and the shininess of our hair.

Gaming Perfomance

The folowing vedio shows the laptop playing a high grafic game gta4

So at last Alienware M15 is a awsome gaming laptop-Hari Prakash