I posted this at google+ a day ago!

Hello, I finally got my new laptop! :) well!... Sort of anyway! It's an alienware 14 from 2013 that I am primarily going to use for learning video game development, and digital art, and graphics, and music creation, with a piece of music creation software called lmms, and a bunch of other things! Maybe some light gaming here and there while I'm at it, since these alienware computer are specially designed for gaming anyway! Although I did get one of the lower end models though, since I would be doing some gaming, but not a heavy load of it! As mentioned earlier I have it for other uses too, that may require a very beefy computer to use for all of that! I also like laptops more because of the portability, even though, yeah alienwares are notorious for being clunky and heavy laptops almost as thick as older laptops. Even with the newer ones slimming down compared to all the older ones, they are still a bit on the thick side. But its more of a maner of If could take my work with me or not.The alienwares also have very nice cases despite being very thick, And the 14 inch model seemed to be a little more suitable for me, than the 17 inch ones, because it was more portable, also because I like higher pixel density screens, because they look clearer and sharper. That being said, here are the specs on it! :)


14.1 inch 1920x1080 anti-glare matte display

Core i7-4700mq clocked at 2.4 ghz, turbo boost up to 3.4 ghz

Intel hd 4600 integrated graphics with 256mb of video memory shared with main memory

16GB of ddr3l sdram clocked at 1600 mhz

1TB seagate sshd hybrid drive with 8GB of nand flash memory as cache memory for the drive
( I'll upgrade to pure ssd one day)

Gtx 750m with 1GB of gddr5 video memory

3hr battery life (which sucks)

Running Linux mint version 17.2 Rafael Xfce edition

I still have the original hhd with windows 7 on it, but thats only if I plan on selling the laptop computer in the future since I don't want to bother dropping $100 bucks on a Windows 7 disk, then installing all the necessary drivers for the computer after that! Which I don't plan to be selling this any time soon.

And oh yes! I literally did put Linux on an alienware! I literally went there! But only on the seagate sshd hybrid drive I bought from Amazon though. It's actually running perfectly now, very smoothly on this machine! Everything including the Wi-Fi works out of the box. The only thing I had to install a driver for, was for the nvidia graphics card which required a proprietor driver in order to work in linux. There's no automatic graphics switching on linux, but you can still do manual graphics switching which after doing so requires you to have to log out of the computer and log back in for you to use the other graphics card.

At first the computer was a little wonky, but after updating the OS a few times, it's running perfectly smooth as butter now, with no more hiccups. The sshd might of partially had to do with it to, but now it's working pretty well with it.

This thing was able to get nearly 70 frames per second in the unrealengine4 on medium settings, and over 40fps on epic. And unreal is running natively in my OS of choice too, which I had to get the source code for the unreal engine from epicgame's github account which required me to link my github, with my unreal account, and then after that wait for a notification from epicgames to add me to their developers team. Then download the source code, and then compile the whole unreal engine from source... It took forever! But I finally managed to fully compile it for linux, and got it to run natively now! :) I think I'll learn how to use it, and mess with it some more later on.

I'm also definitely going to try to learn computer programming again, them maybe try to practice drawing cartoons on gimp or krita with my new drawing tablet I got from best buy after that. It's a wacom tablet too! :) I might even think about doing art commissions again someday.

In the mean time, I'm probably going to open up steam now, which is available for every Linux distrobution, installed by default on pinguy os. And then maybe play some borderlands 2 on it, which runs natively on linux along with a couple of more games on steam. Or just get to drawing stuff in gimp either one.

Also bought this laptop for $650.00 on ebay as well!

I definitely want to make multiplatform games, I can always port them to other OS's anyway. At least with linux, I can make sure I develop a game well optimized for it, and probably push my computer much harder with it than I can on the other os's (mac and windows)since this os doesn't use a lot of system resources and is more stable. Also great for very technical stuff too, especially developers stuff! Part of the reason why I chose it.

Besides I've been using linux since I was 14-15 so about 6-7 years. Gonna go play some games, and draw stuff now! ;)