RSSNew Alienware notebook looks to appease gamers
By Tim Conneally | Published January 15, 2008, 7:10 PM
Alienware's new Area 51 m15x gaming notebook will hopefully provide some balance in today's notebook news, offering graphical processing power over a small profile.
The 15.4-inch notebook can come with either an Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme mobile processor, and an NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT or 8800M GTX GPU. Alienware also includes its own BinaryGFX technology, which allows for switching between the built-in and high performance graphics processors according to the user's demands.
The m15x also comes with a "Smart Bay" -- a hot-swappable optical drive that may be replaced with a second hard drive that would increase capacity to 640GB, or a second battery that would extend the life to about 4 hours unplugged.
Chassis design of the m15x is decidedly more subdued than the last Area 51 release from Alienware, the m9750, but it is by no means conservative. AlienFX lighting allows six discrete backlit sections of the chassis to be set with one of a variety of colors and effects.
It is now available in two configurations for $2,099 and $2,699 USD. A $1,499 USD model is expected soon, which will feature a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo processor and a GeForce 8600M GS GPU.
Alienware may see some unlikely competition from Gateway later this year. That company garnered a "Best of CES 2008" award with its P-171 FX gaming notebook line. In one configuration, Gateway also offers a Core 2 Extreme processor and NVIDIA 8800 GPU.
"New Alienware notebook looks to appease gamers"
That's a "here's your sign" type of statement if I ever did hear one...kind of like saying "New Cisco router looks to appease network administrators"...
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|i went asusmobile bare bones
and now that i was able to find laptop skins i was able to get what i want.
its a shame that alien wont sell you what you want ....maybe they make to much money ?
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|Alienware had me inteested in there laptops untill they wanted to sell me what they wanted to sell me and not what i wanted.
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|Because they are owned by Dell.
"Dude, you're getting a DELL!" (and screwed)
I purchased one for a customer, and have to say - never again. I will build one myself from now on.
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|Build a laptop yourself?
You must be good... ;-)
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|It's not that difficult... Buy a barebones chassis, CPU, RAM, HD and assemble.
http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=23
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