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(Photos: Cracking open the Alienware Area 51 m15x)

(Photos: Cracking open the Alienware Area 51 m15x)OverpricedOverpriced and poor customer service. That is Alienware since Dell bought them out.Buy an ASUS instead. Great guts, competitive prices, better customer service.For the record, I make no money from ASUS or Dell, and never have.RE: (Photos: Cracking open the Alienware Area 51...

Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Alienware Area 51 m15x, Alienware, Alienware Area 51, m15x, Cracking Open, ASUS, customer service, photograph, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

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Alienware reveals M15x laptop with 2GHz Core i7; new desktop designs

Dell on Tuesday announced that its Alienware performance gaming division will offer their 15-inch M15x laptop with a 2GHz Core i7 processor and introduced new designs for its Aurora and Area-51 desktop computers. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Alienware, Laptop Computer, Desktops, Games, Notebooks, Hardware, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-23

Alienware M17x Gaming Laptop Computer (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300, 500GB HDD, 8GB)

With a brand-new look, and some of the highest-end tech available in a laptop, we're semi-surprised that Alienware has kept the M17x name for its newest 17-inch laptop (even if it loses the X-Files-esq "Area-51" moniker). While the system starts at a reasonable $1,799, you'll need to configure something closer...

Tags: Processors, Alienware, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, NVidia Corp., hard drive, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-16

Maingear Ephex (Intel Core i7 965)

Even though lots of vendors offer the capability, we've resisted reviewing a three-way SLI PC until now. Our hesitation had to do with a desire to keep the high-end PCs we reviewed at or around the $6,000 mark, hard to do with $1,800 worth of graphics cards alone. But last...

Tags: Maingear Ephex, Maingear, Intel Core Microarchitecture

Product reviews 2009-01-27

IT Dojo: Speed up Windows Vista with these performance tweaks

Windows Vista has additional security features, new functionality, and a lot of cool graphics. But depending on how powerful your computer is, you might not be that impressed with its performance. Even if you’re running Vista on something less powerful than sayâ€"an $8000 Alienware Area 51 ALX (with three video...

Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate Communications, Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Alienware Area-51 m17x

Alienware Area-51 m17xALIENWARE OR BEWARE OF ALIENWARE?I recently purchased a uber gaming laptop from Alienware, the Area 51 M9750. I had been using HP's but the video card is insufficient for my favorite game WOW. The cost was double but I figured it should last twice as long being built...

Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, Alienware

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Alienware Area-51 X58

Alienware pitched us this $6,473 Area-51 X58 desktop as one of the first PCs it has shipped that truly takes advantage of the buying muscle afforded by its parent company, Dell. Given that the features you get for the dollar noticeably surpass the $8,000 Falcon Northwest Mach V we tested...

Tags: Network technology, Games, DVD, NETWORKING, Alienware, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-11-24

First Core i7 desktops from Dell, Alienware and Gateway

Now that Intel has officially released its Core i7 processor, fresh desktops are arriving daily. Dell has released four systems with Core i7 processors, including one mainstream Studio XPS desktop and three gaming rigs. Gateway also announced two FX-series gaming systems. Notably absent is HP, which has yet to announce...

Tags: Desktop, Alienware, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., Memory, Core, Gateway FX6800-01, Games, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Flash Memory, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Velocity Micro Edge Z-55 (Intel Core i7-920)

Velocity Micro's Edge Z55 is the second PC we've seen with Intel's new Core i7 processor. This $2,499 gaming desktop is not quite as ambitious as the $8,000 or so Falcon Northwest Mach V, but thanks to the new chip and a smart configuration, the Edge Z55 holds its own...

Tags: Desktops, Processors, Intel Core Microarchitecture, Velocity, Velocity Micro, Edge Z55

Product reviews 2008-11-12

More notebooks using two, and now three, GPUs

Laptops using multiple GPUs aren't new, but they are becoming more widespread. Earlier this week AMD touted the first laptop "from a major manufacturer" with two ATI Mobility Radeon GPUs, the Alienware M17. Not to be outdone, Nvidia announced yesterday that it was powering the first three-GPU laptop, the Toshiba...

Tags: Alienware, Notebook, Nvidia GeForce, Intel Core 2 Duo, Toshiba Corp., GPU, Toshiba Qosmio X305 Series, Alienware M1, Trade-off, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition)

As it often does, Falcon Northwest has provided with an ultra-high-end PC as a showcase for Intel's latest high-end desktop CPU. This $8,028 Mach V comes with the latest and greatest of everything and provides a useful benchmark of the performance we can expect to see from boutique gaming PCs...

Tags: Desktops, Games, Intel Core Microarchitecture, Falcon Northwest, PC, Intel Corp., hard drive, Mach V, game

Product reviews 2008-11-06

Alienware M17

With Alienware's recent M17x laptop still relatively fresh, why would the Dell subsidiary launch a new model? The new M17 (minus the "x") system trades Nvidia graphics for ATI (including a multi-GPU CrossFireX option) and also includes optional Intel Quad Core 2 Extreme CPUs. Those new parts drive the price...

Tags: Processors, Alienware M17, Alienware

Product reviews 2008-11-06

The quad-core laptops are here . . . sort of

Back in August Dell, HP and Lenovo all announced mobile workstations that offer Intel's first quad-core chip for laptops. Those systems are now available for order and reviews of at least one model--the Lenovo ThinkPad W700--are giving a glimpse of the performance you can expect from these 17-inch powerhouses. ...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Workstation, Lenovo Group Ltd., Quad-core, Laptop Computer, Quad-core Laptop, Core 2 Quad Extreme, Workstations, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-03

News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

(Photos: Cracking open Alienware's Area 51 ALX)

(Photos: Cracking open Alienware's Area 51 ALX)Ditto hereSame video setup and RAM, slightly slower processor (hey, it's 2yo) as youCrysis runs fineRE: (Photos: Cracking open Alienware's Area 51 ALX)I Own a system , with the same amount of ram same processor and only one , Not 3, NVidia 8800 GTX...

Tags: Cracking Open Alienware, Area-51 ALX, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Photos: Cracking open Alienware's Area 51 ALX

Get a close encounter with the stellar inner workings of this $8,000 PC designed with gaming enthusiasts in mind. by CNET News.com

Tags: Alienware, Photograph, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-09-24

Alienware Area-51 m17x

We'll just come right out and say the Alienware m17x is about as powerful as a laptop gets, at least if it's as tricked-out as our $6,000-plus review unit was. More modest builds are available for as little as $1,999, but at that level, you get a fairly yawn-inducing set...

Tags: Games, Processors, Alienware, Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000, game, Intel Corp., laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-09-15

Gateway P-7811FX

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Gateway's budget-minded, 17-inch gaming laptops have impressed of late, offering high-end graphics and enough CPU power to make for a decent gaming experience. Our...

Tags: Processors, Gateway P-7811FX, Intel Core 2 Duo, Gateway Inc., laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-08-15

How Toshiba's 128GB SSD-equipped Portégé R500 stacks up

Toshiba has released what it says is the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. Technically, the 17-inch Alienware Area-51 m9750 can be configured with two 64GB SSDs, but Toshiba gets credit for shipping the first laptop equipped with a 128GB SSD that you'd actually want to carry anywhere. ...

Tags: Hard Drive, Toshiba Portege, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Portégé R500, SSD, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-06-17

News to know: Vista search; Android; Gmail

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search Phil Wainewright: Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software Ed Burnette: 50 questions asked and answered on Android News.com: Google to let users test new...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail Providers, H-1B, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05