Alienware Laptops Reviews

Alienware laptops have become famous all around the globe as being the most powerful gaming notebooks that mankind has ever seen. Even if they do not come in a wide range of models, the ones which are available will provide you with excellent power to run some top of the line games.

When it comes to powerful and expensive Alienware laptops, one of the best examples we could give is the Alienware m17x. This laptop model has a starting price of $1799 but if you want to configure the unit to have some really powerful components inside, you will end up paying about $4700 for this laptop. The unit comes with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor which is a quad core and, therefore, provides excellent speed for the laptop.

This processor is combined with no less than 8 GB of DDR3 RAM which will allow multitasking at an incredible speed. The hard drive can store up to 1 TB of files which is more than you will ever see on other laptop that has been launched on the market up until now. The graphics card is actually composed of dual nVidia GeForce GTX 280M with 1 GB of video memory. Can you imagine how this baby flies? It features a superb 17 inch display which comes in a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.

Another Alienware laptop model worth mentioning is the Alienware Area 51 m17x. This unit features the same 17 inch display with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. In fact, this is the most common type of display that you can find on Alienware laptops as they are all desktop replacement units. Due to their size and the weight determined by the powerful components inside, this laptop was definitely not made to be carried around. This unit is powered by a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor and 4 GB of RAM. Even if this combination is not as powerful as the previous one, it is still way more than you will get out of regular mainstream laptop. Once again, multitasking is possible at an amazing speed so don’t be afraid to run multiple applications at the same time when it’s necessary. You get 2 graphics card instead on one and they are both nVidia GeForce 9800M GT with 512 MB of video memory. As for the storage capacity of the hard drive, this unit can only store 500 GB of files and folders which is half the storage space of the Alienware m17x. this unit may not be as powerful as the one before but it still comes with cool features like an internal TV tuner which comes with a remote control, a super cool backlit keyboard and a design to die for. You will really feel like an alien space ship has landed right onto your desk. Back in 2008, the standard price of the unit with the basic configuration was $3850 but the price of the unit reviewed was $5900.