Alienware M11x R3 review (Core i7 2630UM)

It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.

We used the 7,200 rpm mechanical drive that Alienware supplied in the system, then replaced it with a 256GB Samsung SSD drive to measure potential performance gains, in the real world.

The system takes 52 seconds to boot into Windows when using the mechanical hard drive. This is reduced to 17 seconds when we swap in the 256GB Solid State drive. If ever it could be highlighted how much of an importance an SSD drive makes to overall system performance, this is it.

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