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Alienware Area-51: Power And Style

One of the best OEMs in the world

By Alexandru Pancescu, Hardware Editor

20th of July 2007, 06:29 GMT

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Alienware's desktop and laptop computer systems are some of the most powerful machines around and that says a lot when companies like HP, Dell and Fujitsu Siemens are left behind in a trail of smoke. Not only are the Alienware machines really, really powerful and very well made, but they also come with a design that turns even Mac users green with envy. Most of the Alienware systems are targeted at a very

select niche of gamers that can afford the $2000 plus cost of one of them. Because of their high-end graphics cards, Alienware seems to have a lot of appeal to graphic designers and photographers as well.

Alienware's new 17-inch Area-51 m9750 notebook computer definitely has some serious power under its shiny casing. It could be the choice computer systems for gamers and designers too, as it should easily support running through 1000 RAW images with Photoshop CS3 Extended, proofing something in Acrobat and making last minute corrections on a drawing in Illustrator at the same time. The Area-51 m9750 notebook comes equipped with Microsoft Windows Vista, customers may choose which particular Vista versions they will use as the notebook configurations include all four versions.

From the hardware point of view, Area-51 m9750 uses the best of the best, as it comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB of level 2 cache and a frontside bus of 667MHz. The mainboard is centered around the Intel 945PM and ICH7M-DH chipsets. When it comes to memory, Area-51 is lavishly equipped with up to 4GB of DDR2 memory in a dual channel configuration, running at the same speed as the frontside bus. Users may choose a single or dual Nvidia graphics card notebook configuration and the video card used by Alienware in Area-51 is the Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 with 512MB of GDDR3 memory. Sporting a high definition widescreen, Area-51 is perfect for multimedia content editing and hardcore games.

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