I loved the M11x and I've had a few R3's over the years and an R2. While they were very underpowered than the bigger AW's available at the time and they did not have nice displays, they were really fun little laptops.
Unfortunately I sold my last R3 a few years ago and I've been wanting to get another one ever since. There is an R2 on eBay here in Australia and I'm thinking about picking it up just to say that I have an M11x again.
I used to travel for work with the huge M18x R2 and also the little M11x R3. The difference in size was ridiculous.
EDIT: I just bought the R2. I'm blaming you for that! :D
That’s awesome! The M11x really is a fun little laptop, even with that super glossy screen. It must have been really nice having both the M18x R2 and the M11x R3 while traveling. Oh yeah, I’m sure that size difference was ridiculous. That’s awesome you had two, though!
And hey, I’ll happily take the blame for you picking up that R2! I hope it brings back some great memories. Let me know how it goes!
@alien-head The R2 arrived a few days ago. I'll get some old games installed on it and see how it goes. I need to get a new black LCD lid cover for it at some stage. Otherwise it's in great shape.
I installed an old game called Sacred that I used to enjoy, it seemed to play pretty well.
I decided to just remove the sticky soft-touch from the LCD lid rather than replace the lid.
I've done quite a few resprays on the older laptops so I've had to remove this stuff before. It's a messy job, it comes off like a sticky resin with the use of some solvent.
Once you remove this layer, you get back to the bare plastic. While it looks matte black (like the first image), it's actually black with a shimmering blue metallic look, when it's wet. I'm going to try and polish it up and see if I can get that metallic sparkle to show permanently.
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March 27th, 2025 22:13
I loved the M11x and I've had a few R3's over the years and an R2. While they were very underpowered than the bigger AW's available at the time and they did not have nice displays, they were really fun little laptops.
Unfortunately I sold my last R3 a few years ago and I've been wanting to get another one ever since. There is an R2 on eBay here in Australia and I'm thinking about picking it up just to say that I have an M11x again.
I used to travel for work with the huge M18x R2 and also the little M11x R3. The difference in size was ridiculous.
EDIT: I just bought the R2. I'm blaming you for that! :D
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March 28th, 2025 05:49
@mattyb3
That’s awesome! The M11x really is a fun little laptop, even with that super glossy screen. It must have been really nice having both the M18x R2 and the M11x R3 while traveling. Oh yeah, I’m sure that size difference was ridiculous. That’s awesome you had two, though!
And hey, I’ll happily take the blame for you picking up that R2! I hope it brings back some great memories. Let me know how it goes!
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April 9th, 2025 23:30
@alien-head The R2 arrived a few days ago. I'll get some old games installed on it and see how it goes. I need to get a new black LCD lid cover for it at some stage. Otherwise it's in great shape.
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April 14th, 2025 14:53
@mattyb3 Awesome to hear it arrived in good shape! Would love to hear how it handles the old games once you’ve had some time with it.
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April 14th, 2025 22:42
I installed an old game called Sacred that I used to enjoy, it seemed to play pretty well.
I decided to just remove the sticky soft-touch from the LCD lid rather than replace the lid.
I've done quite a few resprays on the older laptops so I've had to remove this stuff before. It's a messy job, it comes off like a sticky resin with the use of some solvent.
Once you remove this layer, you get back to the bare plastic. While it looks matte black (like the first image), it's actually black with a shimmering blue metallic look, when it's wet. I'm going to try and polish it up and see if I can get that metallic sparkle to show permanently.