Alienware Aurora mALX
Laptop Magazine takes a look at a huge SLI-based gaming laptop from Alienware. A machine that should not even be considered a laptop anymore, nor one for people on any sort of a budget.
Just how big is Alienware’s 19-inch, SLI-based top-of-the-line mALX gaming laptop? Packed into the box is a backpack seemingly large enough for an Everest climb. With dual Nvidia Go 7900 GTX cards and dual HDD support up to 240GB, the mALX may be the ultimate rig for flying through the latest games at the highest settings. At 15 pounds and a base price of $4,499 (our configuration costs $5,549), this system is best suited for LAN parties. Wherever you take the mALX, it will dominate the competition.
In the end the mALX gets a four and a half out of five and an editor’s choice badge, though I don’t see the appeal of such a system unless you are gaming professionally, especially with the battery being drained in an hour. I’d say stick to 17″ or less like the machines listed on Digital Advisor.
Alienware Area-51 m5550 Review
Laptop Magazine has a review up on the Alienware Area-51 m5550, a powerful laptop made for gaming, not portability.
If you’re looking for top-notch performance, higher-end A/V connections, and futuristic design, the Alienware Area-51 m5550 delivers. However, if its terrible battery life, incomplete set of multimedia features, and high price sour the deal for you, keep on looking.
With its silver coloring, black accents, and glowing alien-head ornament, the m5550 looks way cooler than your typical mainstream notebook.
Laptop Magazine gives the Area-51 m5550 a rating of three out of five.
Some of the things that they liked about the m5550 included its high quality 15.4 inch widescreen display, top of the line processor and excellent graphics performance. The negatives are well known, as Alienware demands a high price for its machines, they don’t have good battery life and there is very little included software.
Check out Digital Advisor’s Laptop Reviews.
Alienware Aurora m9700 Review
Over on Pocket-lint, they have a review of the Alienware Aurora m9700, a gaming laptop that gets much in the way of praise for its gaming power over in North America, but what would Europe have to say about the beast of a machine?
the newly updated Alienware Aurora m9700 now not only available in three crazy colours; green, blue or silver, but also with the added bonus of being the first 17-inch laptop to feature 1GB of graphics memory across two 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics cards.
The machine, which in size dwarfs over the office’s 15-inch G4 Powerbook, looks every bit the Green Goblin, Incredible Hulk or any other menacing comic book hero you can think of and in keeping with the Alienware laptops the notebook sports a glowing alien head on the top of the model just like apple laptops with its logo.
In the end they give it an 8 out of 10, they love the dual graphics cards and the glossy screen, but don’t like how large the powerpack is as well as the plastic feeling scroll pad. I’d say go for the Dell XPS believe it or not. Check it out at Digital Advisor.
Alienware Aurora m9700 Review
Laptop Magazine recently reviewed the Alienware Aurora m9700, a nice gaming notebook with a high price. Gaming laptops from Alienware make all my friends drool. Laptop Magazine has a fair bit to say on the machine.
Alienware has been building gaming notebooks longer than any other company here, and its experience shows in the 9.5-pound Aurora m9700. Anything weighing less than ten pounds is positively svelte in a crowd like this. The Aurora is encased in a solid chassis adorned with Alienware’s trademark glowing AlienEyes and rubberized grips. Notable features include a 1.3-MP tilting camera above the display, a touch-sensitive, quick-launch pad, and a front-mounted optical drive. Positioning the optical drive away from the sides allows for better port distribution and makes room for the RAID configuration that is fast becoming a company standard.
In the end Laptop Magazine gave the Alienware Aurora m9700 a four and a half out of five as well as an Editor’s Choice badge and interestingly enough, the machine is cheaper than Dell’s XPS computer of similar configuration.
Alienware Aurora m7700 Review
Alienware is known for being a bit more pricey than its competitors, but that is because of both its attention to detail and its insane specifications. Laptop Magazine has put up a review of their new Aurora m7700 system with an AMD 64 FX-60 processor. This is not the most portable of machines, but its 17 inch widescreen LCD would probably be really nice to look at.
At ten pounds, the Aurora m7700, Alienware’s AMD version of the dual-core Area-51 m7700, might not save your spine while you trek to LAN parties, but the high performance will make your laptop the focal point of any gaming session, regardless of your skill. Media hounds with cash to burn will find ample options and performance as well. Make that lots of cash to burn; our test configuration will run you $4,258.
In the end they gave the Aurora m7700 a 4 out of 5, and an editor’s choice badge, saying that it has excellent gaming performance and an eye-catching design, but the annoyingly bright LED’s and the weight were some of the listed negatives. Don’t expect to be able to use this machine on the road though, with its battery dying after around an hour of gaming or an hour and a half of regular use.
First SLI 7900 Series Laptops Appear
TrustedReviews has the scoop on the first set of laptops carrying the nVidia SLI Geforce 7900
Dell’s newest baby Alienware is the company/subsidiary first to make the announcement this time around with its Aurora m9700 machine capable of boasting dual 256MB nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics cards. The pair are ably supported by an AMD Turion 64 processor (AMD is turning up increasingly on laptop gaming rigs), a choice of 1,440 x 900 or 1,920 x 1,200 widescreen 17in displays, up to 240GB of storage (using two 120GB HDDs in RAID 0 array) and a maximum of 2GB RAM.
Alienware Aurora m7700 Review
MobileTechReview reviewed the Aurora m7700 from Alienware recently, and I must say, if nothing else, it does have a presence.
What’s big, blue and fast? In the world of notebook computers, the answer is the Alienware Aurora m7700. This desktop replacement targets the gaming market with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ dual core processor, 256 meg Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra PCI Express graphics card and a 17″ WXGA display. That’s our $3,000 review unit, but Alienware is all about build-to-order, so you can go with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-60, Nvidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX and a 17″ wide UXGA (1920 x 1200) display if you’re hankering to beat the pants off of your buddies’ desktop rigs and can shell out the $2,000 additional.
If you are a gamer, and want the Alienware brand, then this is the machine for you right now. Atleast until they come along with an even better model.
Alienware Area-51 m5700 Review
Laptop Magazine recently reviewed the Area-51 m5700 from Alienware (now owned by Dell by the way…incase you did not catch that before).
Decked out in Xeno Grey with Alienware’s trademark gills and alien head logo on the lid, this notebook looks more like a movie prop than a laptop. Compared with its bigger and thicker brute of a brother, the m7700, the 8.35-pound m5700 has a stylish, refined design that lets you lug it from one frag party to the next.
The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Go graphics processor with 256MB of memory handles the latest first-person shooters with ease. The m5700 achieved a high 3DMark03 score of 8,922.
In the end they give the almost $2700 USD notebook a three and a half out of five.
Alien Dellware!
Dell has officially announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alienware. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed
Alienware will keep all of its employees and continue to focus on gamer PCs as its own company. It also will continue to sell machines with AMD chips eventhough, Dell offers Intel only machines.
Will this mean a change in quality in Alienware? Will Dell get rid of its XPS line? The future should be interesting.
Alienware Area-51 m5500
I really like the new fad that laptop makers are getting into with the two graphics cards, one integrated, good enough only for day to day word processing and whatnot, while a second video card included is good enough for most of todays computer games. Laptop Magazine looks at such a machine from Alienware, and in my opinion it is their usual highly-expensive equipment.
the m5500 is among the first to offer dual graphics cards. The idea is to let gamers get in a few rounds of Battlefield 2 with Nvidia’s GPU, and then switch over to Intel graphics to save some battery life for everyday tasks like surfing the Web or checking e-mail. Is this multiple-personality portable worth almost two grand?
In the end they give the nearly $2000 US machine a four out of five, missing out on the last point mostly because of its price, and that the video card switch requires a full reboot of the system.
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