Alienware Area 51 M9750

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  1. Phritz

    Phritz Senior Member

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    My new rig (don't go on about how a desktop is cheaper, I need a Laptop)

    Delivery Date: 4th of June, 2007

    "Secret" Link to config page (it's not available from the Alienware site)
    http://www.alienware.com/configurator_page...ode=SKU-DEFAULT
    http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pa...source=PRAD0033

    Processor:
    Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7200 2.0GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB

    Operating System:
    Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 (Vista eats too much peformance)
    - With USB Mini Media Center Remote Control and Single NTSC TV Tuner

    Chassis:
    17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology - Stealth Black

    Memory:
    1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 512MB (I have 2 Gigs standing by )

    System Drive:
    200GB (100GB x 2) Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache

    CD/DVD/Bluray Drive:
    8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW w/ Nero Software

    Graphics Card:
    Dual 512MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7950 GTX - SLI Enabled

    Wireless Network Card:
    Internal Intel® Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card

    All that for US$3,619.00, and the base price is US$2,080 like Alienware promised, with that you get the 1.6 C2D, 1440x900 screen,80GB 5400 rpm and a single 7950GTX (!)
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    enjoy the battery life...

    I advise you not to bother with a gaming laptop

    it just doesn't work. Highend parts use a lot of power and as such highend laptops have poor battery life.

    My advice would be to buy a cheaper laptop and then to build a desktop with the price diference.
     
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    I have to agree with Xelink, The battery life is gonna be 2 hours :S Also it should have more then 1gb ram, Gaming should have 2gb+ and thats pushing it now-a-days, Gaming pcs should be looking at 4gb
     
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    Alienware are over priced and use up battery life like anything plus you need a really good fan cause they overheat like anything.
     
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    2hours? You'd be happy if you can game 30 minutes with those 2 power sucking 7950gtx's. Still, it's a nice laptop. It's probably a very laptop with a large battery.
     
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    i dont understand why all people complain about the battery life, unless you plan to play in your car or somewhere even when you can get a adapter to plug the laptop in, you should keep it plugged in... i have a laptop and yea before it lasted like 5-6 hours without being plugged in now like 2 hours cause the life drained due to it being plugged in so much. if u plan to play at home or somewhere else where you can plug it in, its a good deal...
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    the idea behind laptops is to get work done.

    he'd be better off spending 1.5K on a decent laptop which rips through things for general use and can do some light gaming if needed while having a better battery life for general use, and then spending 2k on a good desktop with two 800GTXes(for over double the graphics performance)2GB RAM and a e6600

    trust me, I'm not crazy, a laptop which games good enough + a dektop which is over twice as powerful as anything you can get on a laptop is a better choice.
     
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    The thing about heat issues is that the chassis has already been proven to be more than capable of being able to handle two cards in SLi (its the same case as the Aurora 9700), and I agree, despite being a base good deal, once you start racking up some better hardware the price increases dramatically, the price is not that big a deal for me, and where I'm living atm its too expensive build my own desktop in combo of buying a laptop, what I basically need is PC I can drag around every 2 weeks or so, I would love to get a DX10 PC. A DX 10 laptop won't come out for a while (8800's suck power, put one in a laptop XP will hibernate as soon as you unplug the cord)

    1GB of ram is good enough for gaming if your video cards have 1GB of ram themselves and you're not using Vista. I don't plan to be getting Vista anytime soon...
    BTW Alienware laptops aren't as ridiculously overpriced anymore, they used to have huge heating and battery issues because they were using desktop Pentiums :/

    Pricing is not that much of an issue, that combination idea is a good idea but the problem is local PC's aren't exactly cheap and hardware choice is limited, and because of pricing here and delivery difficulty I have to get it from a company that will deliver or retail here which are lenovo dell hp toshiba and acer. If I was back in holland and sitting still I'd just order parts and play some expensive lego
     
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    the video cards can only use a working set of 512mb though since the data on the two cards is mirrored.

    also, how is it more expensive to drop 1k on a laptop and 2k on a desktop vs. 3.5k on a laptop???
     
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    dell's suck dude.
     
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    Because I won't be able to get a desktop in combo with a laptop for 3.5k, half the reason I'm getting a laptop is that I can get it through customs without having 40% import tax being slapped on it (its easier to "smuggle" it through, I've got a friend brining it with him and he has a return ticket), the other half is the fact that I "commute" a lot, getting a desktop with the same performance will set me back a lot more (I have to get it delivered, philipines is in the stone age computer wise and a decent pc costs 4000$ equiv here)
     
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    good point, but i dont think u would be able to bring the whole new box that it came with lol cause that would kinda give it away :P
     
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    nope, its a friend I trust and hes unpacking it, I'm only getting the laptop itself, I'm gonna order 2GB of RAM seperatly (Alienware charges double the retail price for RAM upgrades)\


    Heres a review by LaptopMagazine, its not detailed but those 3Dmark scores are just woah! (higher than the 8800 SLi scores but thats probably because 3DMark03 working better with the older architecture

    http://laptopmag.com/Review/Alienware-Area...9750.htm?page=0

    And this is the link from their page (looks different than the earlier one)
    http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pa...source=PRAD0033
     
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    5.5k isn't very impressive when you consider the fact with a cheep, low end 70$ graphics card I got 4.6k... and I'll get around 10k when I buy the nex-gen radeon x2900XT/XL/w./e if the rumors are right...

    again, laptops are not good gamers. Never have been and never will be. Highend parts get hot. Laptops dont' realy have much in the way of cooling, so comprimises must be made.


    in short...

    not too impressed...
    http://www.hwbot.org/hallOfFame.do?type=re...pplicationId=12

    http://www.hwbot.org/hallOfFame.do?type=re...applicationId=2
     
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    Could have spent so much less and got so much better.
     

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