SPdif out

Aha, spdif out on the motherboard. You can create a bracket from it with high quality audio, or you can attach it to the video card. Problem with this is nearly none of the manufactures for video cards package their cards with the proper cable. I shall later post how to solve this problem, and how to go from any spdif to a 2 pin spdif on a graphics card. (Only on cards that support them, usually one's that support 1080i/p or have an hdmi socket/plug/adapter.) Also note that audio can travel through DVI to HDMI.

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Alienware M11x

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The Alienware M11x has been long awaited and has finally arrived, and will be shipping in March of this year (2010). When configuring this beast, you will see that the RAM speed in the Memory upgrade section, does not seem up to par on what it advertises on the M11x's homepage. This could be a mistake on Dells part, Or it could be shipping with DDR3 800 until more 1060 RAM becomes available. Also, the two processor options are almost identical. Both have same amount of transistors and cores and clock speed. Only difference is you'll be paying $100 more for 1 more MB of cache memory and virtualization from Intel.

Like other laptops from Alienware, this baby has fully customizable LED lights ALL over it. 

It sports a 1GB Geforce 335m video processor that runs at 1080Mhz core speed powered by Nvidia. That's almost that of the CPU! Also with proper settings, it should be able to get 8.5 Hours of battery life. Standard.  Yeah, that's pretty insane for a dual core gaming laptop. This high powered equipment starts at just $799, Yeah, the cheapest price Alienware has EVER made a laptop. After you start to upgrade things start to get very pricey. 

Hopefully i'll be able to get my hands on it, benchmark it, stress it, overclock it, and hack it up afterwards.

Also, this laptop has won multiple rewards such as Best of CES 2010 Gaming (Yes, that is a very big deal)