How Good Is a $1000 Alienware M11X Gaming Laptop From 2010? 

I love how chunky the bezzels are and how smol the entire laptop is

Lol I remember seeing only one guy take it into middle school in 2010, and using it to flex it to other kids lol.

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!

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.

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.

Oh wow, what a classic. I almost bought one of these when I was in college.

Technology from the 2010s are like the 1970s in today's world

All these old hardware reviews you do are the reason your are my favorite tech channel 👍

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

The video I have been waiting for! I always wanted one of these things

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.

Thank you so much for making this!!

Glad you have tested one of these, they look amazing.

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.

On something this old I would recommend taking out the battery, you never know when one day it might become massive and catch fire

Great video as usual, thank you!

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

You are so underrated I love your content 👍👍👍

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

Moving is hard but your videos help alot

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.

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.

Well done. I enjoyed it a lot.

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.

Damn. During my bachelor years I dreamed of this laptop. Tiny enough to fit on my backpack, but it can game.

I do have that one. I was waiting this video for years

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 😅

I loved the aesthetics of these chunky early to mid 2010s laptops. I wish they still made laptops that were as thick as this.

Had one of them back in the days. Was awesome little beast

Please do more old gaming laptops, Thank you!

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.

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.

Great vid!

I love HDMI and the display port combo. It must be there nowadays too...at least on a workstation laptop.

lol i love how you test GTA V with almost everything you review it clears my curiosity out aswell!

Had a i3 370m, 1GB Radeon 5650m, 8GB HP Pavilion back then. Played plenty of Planetside 2 for a few years on that.

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

Such a cool laptop! definitely a collectors item i'm looking for.

"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

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... 👏🏻

I bought a R1 version in Dezember 2020 for 105€ , awesome how u do a review about it months later.

Oh my that's brought back some memories

I had this laptop and i loved it. It had good power and a really good design (for me)

Great video bro... Your biggest fan from India bro. ❤

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

3:56 so we just not going to acknowledge the little spider dude chilling up there on the bezel

1:20 you really have a way with words. A true poet

Got you a lil spider-buddy! :3 Great review! I miss these kinda goofy aesthetics.

Oooh the garden is poppin!!!

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.

Thus was my first gaming laptop ! Retired it in 2015

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.

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.

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.

why you never upload videos of the upgraded version of these videos? It'll be kinda interesting to see what can it do after an upgrade to max potential.

I had one of these. Fond memories.

great video

3:51 "LCD Display" people saying that is my pet peeve

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 had this and a m15x and m17x they were amazing

I really love the old school alienware laptop designs. It's just waaayyy more aggressive looking.

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.

1:28 That cheeky joke though 🤣🤣

at the grand theft auto 5 part were you on the lowest settings and resolution?

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.

5:56 amazing Skyrim death animations

I think I still have my m14 Alienware laptop lying around somewhere lol, the thing was a beast back then

Should do a video on the xps m1730, that thing was a beast.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 :-)

I still kinda miss mine, was so much laptop i wasn't worried about it bumping something and breaking.

What was the spider? Was that a graphic on the bezel?

My first ever gaming computer was an M14X and I loved that thing. Still have it too. Her hard drives gone kinda slow though.

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.

Did it go all sticky? I got a same gen larger one recently and its not nice to use with all that soft rubber stuff melting off, awesome purchase tho ty!

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

the real question is, what'd it score on the windows 7 performance index calculator thing?

Blast from the past that thing is, I remember kids at school talking about alienware computers like they were a rare species tell one day a substitute teacher pulled up with this exact laptop way back in 2010

I'd love to see how this performs with 8GB RAM in more modern games.

i am thinking of swapping my dual core i5 for a quadcore i7 in my ideapad Z400 and upgrade to 16 gb 1600mhz ram is it a smart move?

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 remember always wanting one, still want one, but cant justify getting one.

I love his videos he is one off the best tech you tubers out their

My cousin worked for a company as an IT guy. They gave him one of these for a christmas present back then. I was so jealous lol.

Can you please review Asus n61qj the one with core i7 740qm and ati 5730

These tiny gaming PC were awesome ! Today I'd love to see something like that.

Nice. There's a button on the battery that will show its battery level when pressed.

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.

this is i be waiting for

Mine was alright, but i had serious issues with the lid hinges. Got them replaced/repaired 3 times or so, with hinges that would supposedly "Fix the flaw with them", yet never did. stopped even sending it in to get it fixed, and just ducktaped the lid the best i could, since it seemed like a waste to keep sending it in for repairs.

i remember i was dying for one of these as a kid