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(Alienware M17)Subwoofer???A subwoofer built into a laptop? I can believe a bigger speaker for delivering low notes - a woofer. But a subwoofer, by definition, delivers tones too low to be heard by human ears - the stuff that scrambles your breakfast in your guts. Are...

Tags: Notebooks, Alienware M17, Alienware

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Alienware M17 - Is this the ultimate gaming notebook?

For a few weeks over the holiday and New Year period I had the opportunity of spending a fair bit of hands on time with Alienware's mobile gaming apotheosis - the 17-inch M17. Does the M17 live up to the hype? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Alienware, Performance, Alienware M17, Games, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-01-26

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

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Velocity Micro NoteMagix M17 Ultra

Velocity Micro reviewI had ordered a very expensive M17 Ultra gaming laptop from Velocity Micro as my little gift to myself this holiday season. Well, I got it last night...To start with, I was a returning customer. My desktop is a Velocity Micro rig, bought in 2007, and I've...

Tags: Wireless LANs, PRODUCTIVITY, Velocity, Velocity Micro

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Gateway FX P-7805u

Editors' note: This review is part of our Winter 2009 Retail Roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. Gateway's budget-minded 17-inch gaming laptops have impressed, offering a mix of decent components and high-end video cards for around $1,200. The most recent version, the...

Tags: Processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, Gateway Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo P8400, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-02-20

News to know: IE 8; TI; VMware; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Convertible Classmate, take 2 Jason Perlow: Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey! ...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Cloud Computing, Phone, Texas Instruments Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, E-mail, Wiki, Linux, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Alienware M17 - Is this the ultimate gaming notebook?

Alienware M17 - Is this the ultimate gaming notebook?Thanks for the review!I have been looking for a good gaming laptop rig and alas I think you helped me find one. Didn't expect it to be cheap nor have a good battery but with specs like these and a clean design...

Tags: Games, Notebooks, ultimate gaming notebook, gaming notebook, game, Alienware, notebook, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Alienware M17

For a few weeks over the holiday and New Year period I had the opportunity of spending a fair bit of hands on time with Alienware's mobile gaming apotheosis - the 17-inch M17. Does the M17 live up to the hype? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Games, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, m17, alienware, notebook, gaming, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Image galleries 2009-01-26

Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

Here are some of ZDNet Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, the Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, and Alienware's M17 laptop. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Intel Core Microarchitecture, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-10

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

Alienware launches 'world's first mobile quad-core' laptop

Alienware, Dell's extreme-high performance computing arm, has announced the arrival of its M17 laptop, one of the first such machines powered by the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 (2.53 GHz, 12MB cache, 1066MHz FSB), the world's first mobile quad-core processor. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines....

Tags: Alienware, Mobile, Quad-core, Storage, ATI Technologies Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, M17, Corporate Communications, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-03