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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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So, what's the downside? It's not that we object to the £3k+ price point - that's fine, for the target market. But we object to an X-Fi card that lacks X-RAM - the advantage over motherboard audio is otherwise slim. We also feel let down by memory that is so slow, for the price. The previous system we saw from Alienware was also let down by poor RAM, and we can only suggest that Alienware has a meeting with Corsair, or OCZ, or Crucial or even its current supplier, Patriot, to sorts this out. We saw in the benchmarks that overall system performance was let down by the poor memory timings, and we can't help but feel that the £50 difference between the Xtreme Gamer and the Fatal1ty Edition of the X-Fi should be sucked up by Alienware here, given that there has already been so much spent on the 8800 GTX's.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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Alienware was one of the first to offer SLI-powered systems and Intel dual-core-powered systems, and now it has brought those two extraordinary technologies together. The Area-51 7500 allows you to experience markedly increased levels of both processor and graphics performance in one system, meaning games and multimedia applications fly like a bat out of hell. It's a powerful, fully-featured computer that's great for gaming and multimedia duties, and though it is pricey, you get Alienware's thoughtful design and attractive styling for the expense. But if you're a gaming nut, you may want to hold on until the New Year because Alienware has announced that it plans to equip its most powerful desktops with nVidia's new DirectX 10-based GeForce 8800 GTX (in single or dual-GPU mode), as well as Intel's quad-core Core 2 Extreme processor.
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Friday, December 15, 2006
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While PC architecture is moving inexorably to multi-core architectures, one has to question the value of quad-core on the desktop right now, especially in a gaming system. As we said in e-2-Extreme-QX6700-Kentsfield-Quad-Core-/p2 our Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review at the start of November, applications are only just starting to be optimized for dual-core, let alone quad. The fact is that for the gamer, right now a dual-core X6800 Extreme is the fastest CPU you can get due to its higher clock speed (2.93GHz vs 2.66GHz).
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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Power and mobility are 2 very important factors when choosing a laptop. You want something that is powerful enough to suit your needs, but also portable enough so that it is not a hassle to travel with. We recently reviewed the Dell XPS M1210 laptop and it achieved both of those factors easily. Today we will be taking a look at Alienware's Area-51 m5550 15.4-inch laptop and we will see how it stacks up to the M1210 and if it is portable enough for our needs. So let's take a look.
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Be the envy of your friends with the Alienware Aurora M9700 laptop, with dual video cards in SLI mode.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
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Alienware's Area-51 7500 packs a serious punch, but is light on your wallet, that is unless you want to load it up with plenty of options.
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Monday, October 30, 2006
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As Wil described in his piece yesterday, the PC has come a long way from the bland, corporate box that it used to be in the early nineties. Nowaday, even cheap, cheerful machines are attractively coloured and housed in interesting boxes. If you go high-end however, you can get something really cool looking like the Dell XPS 700 or pretty much anything from Alienware. Alienware as a company has a reputation for gaming PCs that sits some way above the regular component manufacturers such as Evesham, but below the super exclusive exotica of the likes of VoodooPC. An Alienware is impressive without being too over-the-top. That said, they tend not to be inexpensive beasts. The last time I looked at one of its machines, I started off quite enthused but was gradually ground down by the sheer cost of nearly £4,000 and some poor assembly choices.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
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The Aurora m9700 (from £1198) is the first 17-inch (19-inch model also available) dual-graphics card laptop, giving you up to a 100 per cent increase in graphics performance over single graphics card systems. Want even more? How does 1GB of graphics memory sound? That?s enough power to pump out games at the highest resolutions without butchering your frame rate, and mobile enough to pick up and move closer to your next victim. And at just 3.90kg (398x299x470mm), it won?t break your back if you intend to use it frequently on the move.
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Friday, September 8, 2006
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Firstly let me put this one to rest. As a machine to lug around all day, everyday the Aurora is hopeless. In terms of weight, carrying a bag of bricks would provide a similar experience and as for battery life, you may as well keep a box of rubber bands ready wound up. However there's a very good reason as to why the Aurora is like this. What it packs underneath that glossy plastic fascia is pure power, both in terms of processing capability and memory.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
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Alienware is launching a new chassis and taking Intel's well-received Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU as a performance base. If you've got around £3,000 and are after a PC with all the trimmings, Alienware's Area-51 7500 may just be for you.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
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The Alienware Aurora m9700 is a serious gaming notebook and is the first of its kind to utilize NVIDIA's SLI technology. It achieves this by using two GeForce 7900GS (256MB) graphics cards smartly positioned inside the casing delivering stellar results. Driven by an AMD Turion64 processor, the Aurora m9700 can also come outfitted with dual 100GB SATA 7200-RPM hard drives set up for RAID0. Finishing all this off is a 17? widescreen LCD outputting a native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels with Clearview Technology.
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Friday, April 7, 2006
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A staggering PC in terms of looks, performance and construction. It's also quite outrageously overpriced but if you can afford to spend this you probably don't care. However, the specification is flawed and it's far too noisy. The search for the ultimate machine continues...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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This is a staggeringly fast PC along with an equally staggering price point. But if you happen to be earning thousands of pounds a week and want to relax playing some games after the gruelling Christmas schedule and FA Cup ties, the Aurora 7500 is definitely worth a considering... ;-)
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
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A decent notebook in and of itself, but for an Alienware it's just not special enough, unfortunately making it poor value compared to other manufacturers...
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Saturday, December 3, 2005
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Think of a laptop manufacturer that does things its own way. Customised designs with extra-cool features, say. We bet that one of the first to spring to mind would be Alienware, who could be considered to be the antithesis of Dell. Alienware caters for the customer that wants bespoke laptops that standout from the crowd, so we were only too happy to take a look at its Area-51 m5700 model, a soon-to-be released laptop that features some fine componentry. Boasting a 17-inch wide-aspect LCD, capacious hard drive and fast graphics card, could it topple Dell's Inspiron XPS Gen 2 in our premium desktop-replacement sector? Read on to find out...
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