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There is a "microsoft fix-it" that may resolve your issue as I got that error long ago on a system and it renabled all the stuff involved in auto-updates. Google it if you don't come up with it, I'll try to find it for you but try looking that error code up on google with "fix" and "windows update" also in the search.

Yes T|I is the ultimate Tech haven, gee no closing of threads, no censorship, no lame bots to shut our mouths (notebookreview). Wow it's like we can actually say what we think. How did that happen, I mean a forum where you can say what your opinion is... that's unheard of. Hoorah for T|I. From ashes to Inferno! Yes I said it.

NBR Copy and paste = i7 920XM (ES) wPrime 32M @ 4.002MHz: 6.275 sec wPrime 1024M @ 4002.3 MHz: 192.72 sec For some reason two cores remained at low temps, and the other two went as high as 44*C. Maybe I'll mess with it later. Cant get the mobile chips as cold as desktop chips because the cold bug real easy. At Idle, throttle stop would read as low as -20*C, though I'm sure the chips temps were even lower. Maybe the pot wasn't sitting quite right. But it's made for a desktop mobo, so I couldn't bolt it down. I think thats the end of the line for that chip unless I can get some more voltage @MW, Sorry to hear your sistem is KIA, At least your getting the 18x, I may upgrade, depends on what the costs are and what I can get for my 17x. Doubtful though lol, though I'd love to bench the 18x, only if it's as OC friendly as the 17x R2.

I can't be 100% sure as I don't have it in hands. This info has been pulled out a French site review, here. They're talking about 1.47Kg, 3.2 lbs, but let's pretend it's gonna be only 2.8 lbs, + the weight of the M18X itself, 5.41Kg, 11.9 lbs as per the manual, which makes 11.9 + 2.8 = 14.7 lbs, so this is ± 15 lbs total cost of ownership... For comparison again, the 240W PSU of the M17X weights 0.675Kg, 1.5 lbs...

Finally, touched it Arrived today (thanks Stam ) taking unboxing pix now.. looks pretty awesome overall

Cool. Thanks for the info! Already started my own project on my R2 and I finished replacing the keys on the keyboard with the more stealthier ones from the Area-51 M17x (the original ones stand out too much while these keys go well with the black palmrest of the R2 as as well as the lighting being crisper too!

Holy hell that thing is big, I figured it would be big but not that much bigger than the R3. That's not even a laptop, can't be classified as a DTR, it's a hybrid all-in-one desktop lol. Kinda like the Ford Taurus X it's not a car it's not an suv or truck it's a cruck. I guess we can call the M18x a Desk-book lol.

Dual 6970M > 2x memory bandwidth of a Dual D5870M. Factory 4ghz overclock 2920XM. Plus what Unreal25 said.

time to start moving furniture in here and get rid of the cobwebs . Is michael staying with his m17x-R3? seems like it. I have to say after seen this picture I leaned towards the m17x-R3 the m18x is to massive to carry around. On the other hand Brian is gonna be bragging about this for years to come, so be prepare.

What the... with this forum.... first the speculation threads, then hot chicks thread, then coupon codes thread.... nothing locked.... I must be in heaven.

Plus the difference is something that can be eliminated with better drivers...

Ahmadmud please try what I suggested in my last post in this thread and let us know if it gets your bluetooth working... I'm almost certain that was your issue.

A lot of the third-party 485m's people are buying are actually *built by dell*. None of dell's current line have them though, so I am 100% certain we will eventually see the 485m as an option sooner rather than later. This may well be the reason for the delay, even. For the development and game dev I do, my only option is nvidia. I prefer AMD, no doubt, but I cant stand using sketchup/udk/unity/etc at sub par performance any more. Also, more importantly, I have no fucking idea where this myth has come from that nvidia has better drivers. They don't. They never have. They never will. Nvidia have had woeful driver support ever since the geforce 8xxx series. No one seems to remember all the troubles huh? If anyone is curious, here are some terms to google for: "NV4 disp error", "Nvidia restart PC", "Nvidia driver melting graphics cards", etc... AMD's engineering department is more than double the size of Nvidia's. They spend more money and more resources on building their drivers. Nvida, on the other hand, spends that same money bribing game developers to make their game work around nvidia's problems (they call it "the way its meant to be played") and part of this agreement is they cannot optimize for AMD or intel. The only benefit to nvidia's drivers is the larger game support for multi-gpu, and even this is dwindling fast. It has been repeatedly shown however that AMD multi GPU (crossfire) performance is now far superior to nvidia since the 6xxx series. Even the microstuttering on ATI's products are less pronounced. If all you are doing is gaming, go AMD. And dont look back. If you are doing any kind of Dev work, you may have to go to nvidia. I know for one that sketchup performs much much faster on nvidia. -Ash

Oh yeah, forgot about the 32gb of memory and SATA 3. Also, 16:9 is evil.