Posted by calvinrn on November 4, 2008
The ultimate laptop!!!
These laptops are the dream of gaming freaks like me. I came to close to buying one but had to end up with a Dell Vostro with a NVIDIA 8600 MGT instead. Not very clever..I know but given the cicumstances, it was the best I could do.
Ok so lets see the latest product from Alienware. A 17 inch laptop featuring the world’s first mobile quad core processor!!! We recently purchased desktops with quad core processors and they are amazingly fast!!! So I can’t even imagine the power of a quad core based laptop!!!
The laptop also comes with the latest “ATI CrossFire” GPU!!! The dual core version of this graphics processor can burn any of the existing benchmarks in the world today. Among other attractions, it has 4GB of RAM and a 1 TB harddisk!!! Yes 1 Tera Byte!!!
Feast your heart out on the complete tech specs here!!!
Operating Systems
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- Windows Vista® Home Premium
(32- and 64-bit)
- Windows Vista® Ultimate
(32- and 64-bit)
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Processors, Chipset & Memory
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- Intel® Core™2 Duo and Extreme Processors
(6MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
- Intel® Core™2 Quad and Extreme Processors
(12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
- Intel® PM45 + ICH9M-E Chipset
- Up to 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz
- 2 dedicated SO-DIMM slots for Dual Channel DDR3 Memory
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Graphics & Video
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- Single Graphics
- ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870
- Dual Graphics
- ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 – CrossFireX Enabled!
- Connectivity
- Video out 1x HDMI Connector
- HDMI to DVI-D Adapter – Optional
- Video in: Integrated HD TV (ATSC) Tuner (Coaxial) – optional
- Video/TV out: One HDMI 1.3b Connector
- Video/TV out: One VGA Connector
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Storage
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- Single Hard Drive
- 5400 RPM – Up to 500GB SATA
- 7200 RPM – Up to 320GB SATA
- Dual Hard Drives in RAID 0
- 5400 RPM – Up to 1TB
(2 x 500GB)
- 7200 RPM – Up to 640GB
(2 x 320GB)
- Optical Drives
- 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
- 8x Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW, CD-RW) w/ LightScribe Technology
- Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
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Networking
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- Wireless Connectivity
- Internal Intel WiFi Link 5300 a/b/g/Draft-N
- Integrated Bluetooth 2.1
- Wired Connectivity
- Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 (1000 Mbps)
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Audio
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- High-Definition Digital Audio
- Integrated 4 Channel Support
- Up to 7.1 Support Through Digital Out
- Two Speakers with Subwoofer
- Connectivity
- 1 Auto-Sensing Headphone Jack
- 1 Auto-Sensing Microphone Jack
- 1 TOSlink Digital Out Optical Audio
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Peripheral Connections
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- 3 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
- 1 eSATA/USB 2.0 Combo (2-in-1 port)
- ExpressCard Slot
- IEEE 1394a (4-pin) port
- 7-in-1 Media Card Reader (SD/MS/MSPRO/RS-MMC/MMC)
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LCD Panel
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- 17-inch Widescreen WUXGA
1920 x 1200 with Clearview
- 17-inch Widescreen WXGA+
1440 x 900
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Battery
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- 12 Cell Lithium-ION Battery
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Keyboard & Touchpad
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- Full Size Keyboard with Separate Numeric Keypad
- Full Size Illuminated Keyboard with Separate Numeric Keypad
- Full Size Touchpad with Scroll Functionality
- Instant Access Buttons include:
- Internet
- Email
- Windows Media Player
- Power DVD
- Play/Pause
- Skip Forward
- Skip Backward
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Security
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- AlienSense Facial Recognition Software
- Biometric Fingerprint Reader
- 1 Kensington Lock Slot
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Case & Chassis
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- Height: 1.7”
- Width: 15.65”
- Depth: 11.80”
- Weight: 9.5 lbs
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Awesome ain’t it!!!! Everything cool thing you can possbly think of has been incorporated into this laptop. it is one mean machine!!!
Nothing gets better than this!!!
This model is priced 1399$ upwards. Please be advised that the configuration of which I speak of will cost 2000$ at a minimum.
Alienware laptops are recommended for the gamers at heart who also have a fat wallet(many a times this rule is mutually exclusive!!!)
I hope to get an Alienware next year….hopefully….thats unless one of you readers decide gift me one 
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