Overall the system is great and I am depressed that I have to send it back to Alienware, and it hurts inside that I don?t have $5,000 to buy it. The system is so great that we have awarded it our 5 Start Kick Ass Award and 5 Star Editors Choice Awards fo
It’s easy to be seduced by Alienware’s m15x notebook. From its handsome silver-gray case to its cool-yet-tasteful LED accents to its comfortable lap weight of less than eight pounds, this 15.4-inch machine had us at hello. Of course, only excellent perfor
With a spectacular display of LEDs, a futuristic design, and phenomenal performance scores, the Alienware Area-51 m15x gaming laptop has no competition on planet Earth.
Truth be told a small part of me sighs when confronted by a gaming notebook. Not because I don't believe in them, but because despite being some of the most powerful notebooks you're likely to find, there's nothing particularly sophisticated about them. T
Despite some minor quibbles, the Alienware Area-51 m15x earns the title of best gaming laptop on the market. The tradeoffs on the system are minimal, and they're more than compensated for by the m15x's portability and performance.
If you're looking to drop some major change on a show-off gaming laptop, it's hard to do better than the Alienware Area-51 m17x, a mean-looking, high-performance black slab.
If you're looking to drop some major change on a show-off gaming laptop, it's hard to do better than the Alienware Area-51 m17x, a mean-looking, high-performance black slab.
Just like anything you order from Alienware the m15x came to us VIA FedEx. It came in an all black box, so you really don't know what it is when it comes. Opening up that box you find the actual retail box. It seems Alienware has abandoned the white logo
If you're looking to drop some major change on a show-off gaming laptop, it's hard to do better than the Alienware Area-51 m17x, a mean-looking, high-performance black slab.
This notebook is too heavy for use while on the move — it weighs 3.5kg without its power supply and 4.3kg with it — but with so much power under the hood, the Alienware m15x-R1 is the perfect desktop replacement.
I have to be brutally honest - the Alienware Area-51 m15x is the best-rounded gaming machine I have tested. It really is. How Alienware managed to pack ultra high-performance components typically only found in the largest of desktop replacements into a 15
The m17x, aptly named for its 17-inch glossy display, features a full and comfortable keyboard with backlighting and a large, smooth touchpad that sits flush with the palm surface and is discernible only by a backlit square outline.
When the gaming stakes are high, you need a laptop with components that can deliver a high level of performance. Alienware's Area-51 M17X is one of those laptops, but you'll need to empty your mattress of your life savings in order to buy it.
However, the nVidia 8800M GTX GPU humming under the Alienware Area 51 m15x's hood is what ensures that you'll enjoy decent frame rates at the machine's native 1920 by 1200 resolution
To gauge general performance we use a range of different programs that run an automated set of processes and output several results in seconds. We perform each test three times in order to get a good groundwork, then we average these times to try and get
Alienware claims that its Area-51 m15x gaming laptop is the "fastest 15.4in notebook ever". Not true if you opt for the basic m15x with Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor however.
The m17x is also, the company said, its fastest laptop yet. It features an Intel (News - Alert) Core 2 Extreme processor and dual SLI-enabled NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs. It also sports a 500 GB mobile hard drive. Dual drives configured in a RAID 0 arra
We recently spent some time with the Alienware m15x and the end result was the fastest 15 inch laptop we have ever tested. Today we look at the bigger brother, the Area 51 m17x which is marketed as a high powered gaming desktop replacement. So what goodie
We love its matte black design, customizable glowing features, and killer gaming scores. If you’re pinching pennies, you may not dig its $2,199 starting price
Powered by Intel's Extreme processor, the Intel 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo X9000, you won't need to worry about performance. With 2048MB of memory, we found the system was more than capable of handling most tasks with relative ease.
Alienware, the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems, has added a new product to their family, the Area-51 m17x. This is an addition to their top of the line Area-51 series of notebooks.
Alienware's Area-51 m17x is a very hefty machine that is really designed with the sole purpose of being a high performance gaming system. It has a vareity of features and options that make it well suited as a portable media platform, but the high cost of
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