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Alienware M11x - 11" Laptop with 1GB GPU - what do ya think?
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Alienware M11x - 11" Laptop with 1GB GPU - what do ya think?

DJ Pimp 6:58 PM - 18 February, 2010
Here are the specs:
Alienware M11x
- Intel® Core™2 Duo SU7300 1.3GHz (3MB Cache)
- 11.6-inch WideHD 1366x768 (720p) WLED
- 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 335M
- 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 800MHz
Runs 64bit Win7

Since I prefer Mac. Does anybody knows if this machine could be Hackintoshed?
I wouldn't really like to go back to Windows and it's endless tweaking to make it work..
They say that it can run any contemporary game at 60fps.
What are your toughts people? Or better yet has someone tried it already with VSL?
DJ Pimp 7:02 PM - 18 February, 2010
Ah yeah, and don't tell me to get a Mac, please. I have the latest unibody 2.8GHz, I just prefer smaller laptops.
When I started using Serato SL back in 2005 I was using a 7" Toshiba with Pentium M 1.2GHz. I use MBP now because of video mixing..
skinnyguy 7:59 PM - 18 February, 2010
sounds good. try it. let us know how it goes.
D-Twizzle 11:00 PM - 18 February, 2010
cpu is probably too slow, even if it was hackintoshed
Joshua Carl 10:21 PM - 21 February, 2010
yeah... 2.5 + on the processor.

but the 1gb video card looks good.
DJ Pimp 11:33 AM - 22 February, 2010
Here I have compared this laptop's CPU with my MBP (unibody 2.8GHz) CPU
img96.imageshack.us
Can anybody get something from these benchmarks, etc?

Also tin this review here:
www.hardwareheaven.com
States that GPU can be used as video decoder instead of CPU:

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"Thankfully this is another area where we can take advantage of the GPU computing features of the GeForce GT 335M. By installing CoreAVC we are able to pass the processing of HD video content from the CPU to GPU simply by ticking a box in the codec options. With GPU acceleration enabled the processor use drops to as low as 7% with an average of 15%. Not only does this mean that we can play 1080p (and 720p) files with ease, it also ensures there are resources free to perform other tasks while HD content is playing.:
DouggyFresh 6:55 PM - 8 March, 2010
WOW... I'd like to see how this works on my Asus laptop w / Nvidia GT 260M w/ 1GB RAM... My PC with VSL / Quicktime runs good (70% on high quality) but if I could offload 50% of the decoding to the video card... wow... seems worth it for PC users & VSL 1.2
stebo 2:32 PM - 30 December, 2010
Has anyone been able to test how well an M11x runs Serato SL? Would be interested to hear the results.
Funkytownstopsix 4:06 PM - 5 January, 2011
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cpu is probably too slow, even if it was hackintoshed

+1

I have tried many PC laptops and had to pay lots of restocking fees. I will just say this,,,, it better be 2.5GH min. Why Hack it anyway...it will work in windows as well... Mine does I had it hacked and yes it ran a little smoother yet I want it to work in windows like serato said it would. It does ....lol but I still use my mac.....
Sticky K 10:18 AM - 6 January, 2011
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WOW... I'd like to see how this works on my Asus laptop w / Nvidia GT 260M w/ 1GB RAM... My PC with VSL / Quicktime runs good (70% on high quality) but if I could offload 50% of the decoding to the video card... wow... seems worth it for PC users & VSL 1.2


are you decoding with quicktime?
DouggyFresh 3:46 PM - 6 January, 2011
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WOW... I'd like to see how this works on my Asus laptop w / Nvidia GT 260M w/ 1GB RAM... My PC with VSL / Quicktime runs good (70% on high quality) but if I could offload 50% of the decoding to the video card... wow... seems worth it for PC users & VSL 1.2


are you decoding with quicktime?


I was, ended up running Snow Leopard on it instead of messing with VSL on the PC side of things, I got all the hardware working perfect. Before I switched, I was unsuccessful switching it to Direct X to test this.