Clevo to replace the Alienware M11x with an ultraportable 11.6 "seasoned players

The players to have a good "11.6 machine can count on Clevo to replace their Alienware M11x.

If Alienware has recently updated its store of laptops tough for players with new processors Intel Ivy Bridge, only the M14x, M17x and M18x (of 14, 17.3, 18.4 inch laptops) have right. Indeed, the famous M11x ultraportable for players of "11.6 tested by our care in mid-2010, has for its part remained under Sandy Bridge and the 500 GeForce or Radeon HD 6000. Have Dell decided to let his M11x die small firearms, is simply leaving the possibility of selling the latest machines in stock? It is a possibility, even if expected clarification of this side.

Is that the Alienware M11x is exception on the market, being the only ultraportable on this diagonal to be really cut to the game (without however reaching the performance of its big brothers). But as our colleagues from Clubic, point out the niche will be not left blank. Indeed, the Taiwanese Clevo (which manufactures white brand of computers for other brands) has presented a new reference "11.6 not exceeding 1.8 Kg and capable of a killer configuration.

Think for yourself, the Clevo W110ER can embark up to an Intel Core-i7 Ivy Bridge and graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650 M operator architecture Kepler. With two benches So-DIMM for DDR3, a location 2.5-inch hard disk or SSD SATA III 6 Gbps, USB 3.0 ports and a HDMI 1 4A output, it promises to be able to become a super companion of easily transportable set. Remains to be seen which brands will focus on this new chassis, and how many will be sold computers that operate it.

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Replace the hard drive on his laptop: interest?

There are few, we have tried to determine if it was worth to replace the hard disk on a desktop computer, specifically in a passage from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7, an update which believe many of you at this time. We noted a slight decrease in consumption and a small increase in performance, which did us say that if you intend to make major changes to your system, it could worth thinking to change disk hard if you had the budget, the new models are actually slightly higher than the old.But is it the same for a laptop? Is it possible to achieve a significant improvement in performance or autonomy by replacing the hard drive?

While the largest hard drives for desktop today reached a capacity of 2 TB, it must be said that progress was clearly less dramatic on laptops: as a general rule, the 2.5-inch hard drives are slower and smaller size (640 GB maximum) than their counterparts to desktop. This that does not mean that there was no evolution in this sector: indeed, the strong growth in sales of laptops in recent years, needs are well there, both in terms of reduction in consumption to increase capacity. It was therefore normal that the market follow.There are two broad categories of hard drives format 2.5 inches: general public and high performance. The first were generally larger but reduced to 5400 RPM rotational speed while the latter are more Rapids (7200 RPM) but also more small capacity: for example, it is now public models 640 GB (and 9.5 mm thick) and drives high-performance 500 GB.

For this article, we have taken as a basis a Dell Latitude D630, a laptop equipped with a disk hard Hitachi Travelstar 7 K 200 160 GB (which was one of the first 7200 RPM SATA models), and we have replaced this latter by a Travelstar 7 K 500, the last born of Japanese and most recent of two generations manufacturer plants. What is the impact of this change on the performance of our Core 2-based notebook? The new hard disk is sufficiently effective to affect its independence? This is what we will attempt to discover.

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