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| STORIES ABOUT: Alienware |
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| GTX 280 for Alienware's Area-51 |  | Yes, the GTX 280 and GTX 260 cards are out, and a considerable number of users are wondering whether to upgrade or not. Although only three days have passed since NVIDIA officially launched the new desktop graphics cards, people are already claiming the GTX 280 to be the fastest on the market, or so at least until AMD rolls out its upcoming RV770-based lineup. However, if you are looking to acquire a system built using NVIDIA's latest ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2008, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Goes 4 GHz |  | If you recently happened to visit Alienware's website, you might have noticed the American vendor's recent offer. However, if you haven’t done this yet, here's a little insight into what they are now offering to extreme users. Their high-end desktop computer system, Area-51 ALX has just received a new performance upgrade. Alienware users will be happy to know that they can acquire their favorite extreme rig with an ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell and Alienware, the First to Ship 320GB Hard Drives |  | Two of the largest manufacturers of portable computers will be the first to ship their products with the latest 7200 RPM, 320 GB hard drives. Dell and Alienware have been announced, via a press release coming from Seagate, as the first two vendors to offer their notebooks with a 320 GB hard drive upgrade. Dell will power its Dell XPS laptop PCs with Seagate's Momentus 7200.3 hard drives, thus becoming the first to market sys ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware: 32-bit Operating Systems Cap Gaming Performance |  | Quad-core processors have long since penetrated the market and lower manufacturing costs already pushed them into mainstream offerings. However, hardware upgrades seem to have lost their appeal, as lines between mainstream and high-end parts get blurred.
Alienware is currently looking for solutions to increase the hardware performance in their top-notch gaming systems and faster hardware may not be the answer. According to the company, ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Stuffs AMD Technology in Low-Budget Gaming Rigs |  | Boutique PC manufacturer has announced that it would introduce low-budget gaming systems based on AMD technology. According to the company, the first AMD-powered gaming rigs will hit the market within two weeks' time and will pack AMD quad-core processors and ATI graphics.
The system manufacturer announced that the cheapest system will sell for about $1,700. It will include 4GB of memory, two ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphi ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell Puts an End to Its Desktop Gaming Line-Up |  | System vendor Dell plans to phase out its high-end XPS gaming desktop PC line-up in order to focus on its truly professional gaming solutions shipped through its boutique PC subsidiary Alienware. According to a news report released by the Wall Street Journal, Dell will only offer high-end desktop gamin ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell's XPS 730 H2C Gaming Rig Plays Crysis at 30 FPS |  | Dell has just introduced the new XPS 730 H2C gaming desktop offering. The new computer is especially suitable for any kind of computing-intensive applications, such as gaming and complex 3D rendering. According to the computer manufacturer, the XPS 730 H2C edition is one of the most powerful desktop systems in the world.
The system vendor also claims that the new gaming behemoth can play Crysis at full 1920x1200 resolutions wi ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware's Aurora Gaming Rig Gets Phenom 9850 Facelift |  | Boutique PC manufacturer Alienware has just announced a processor update for its Aurora gaming systems line-up. The new gaming rigs will come with AMD's Phenom 9850 flagship quad-core processor and will allow low-budget gamers get a professionally-built computing system for less than $1,000.
The new Aurora desktop PCs will be built on the AMD Spider/ASUS 790FX-based motherboard, that support up to 4 GB of DDR2 memory as ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware's Area-51 Gaming Rigs Meet World's Fastest Processor |  | Alienware's gaming-oriented desktop PCs in the Area-51 lineup have undergone the second update in less than a week. Right after having introduced Nvidia's GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card, the boutique PC builder added the Intel QX9770 Core 2 Extreme Q ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware M15X Overheating Issues, Patched Via BIOS Fix |  | Alienware's Area-51 m15x gaming notebook has had quite some issues since it was introduced on the market. You might remember the fact that the extremely expensive mobile gaming rig was reported to have shipped with only a part of the advertised lighting areas enabled&l ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Updates Area-51 with 9800 GX2 Graphics |  | Alienware's most powerful gaming desktop has just been relaunched in an updated hardware configuration. The Area-51 7500 computer now comes with a Nvidia nForce 790i Ultra SLI-based motherboard and a GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card to go along with it.
The technology update is meant to boost the performance of the Area-51 7500 gaming system, in order to keep it in line with the more resource-hungry gaming titles. According ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware's m15x Gaming Notebook Overheats, Snaps Apart |  | Boutique PC vendor Alienware is reported to encounter some functional issues with its gaming notebook systems in the m15x series. It appears that the extremely expensive mobile PC is constantly overheating. More than that, one of the m15x reported that his machine would develop fissures in the frame.
As you can see in the attached images, the notebook's frame started snapping apart in the left side of the keyboard with no ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 09:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Area-51 ALX: World's Most Powerful Quad-GPU Configuration |  | The CrossFireX is officially supported with the advent of the brand-new Catalyst 8.3 driver pack from the ATI laboratories, so boutique PC manufacturer Alienware has just introduced its newest killing machine: the Alienware Area-51 ALX. The computer is touted as world's first quad-GPU gaming solution supporting DirectX 10.1.
The Alienware ALX CrossFireX is built around two ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics cards introduced e ... [read more >>] | | 06 March 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware's m15x Laptops, Available in Penryn Flavor |  | Dell's boutique PC division, Alienware, has announced an updated version of its popular and powerful Area-51 m15x notebook computer. The new m15x will come with Intel's 45-nanometer Core 2 Extreme mobile processor X9000 CPU, which makes it the first and only 15.4-inch notebook system to be powered by an Intel Mobile quad-core.
"When we launched the Area-51 m15x in January with the original CPUs and the NVIDIA Ge ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Could Dell, Alienware and Google Make an Android Phone? |  | Dell and Google were rumored to make the first Android-based phone and, at the end of January 2008, there were even speculations saying the Android Dell handset had already been built, waiting to be presented to the public. In the end, it turns out Dell is not interested in Google&# ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Laptops Lose Appeal Over Missing Side Lights |  | Dell's high-end boutique Alienware has been cooking the Area-51 m15x l gaming notebook for some time now, and the enthusiasts have been more or less patiently waiting for its availability. The notebook is quite an expensive piece and is exclusively dedicated to the laptop gamers. However, the investment will pay off, since the notebook is more of a piece of jewelery, with "six distinct lighting zones," as announced ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware to Release 4TB Multimedia Home Server |  | Alienware has just announced the Alienware High Definition Media Server, a 4TB of storage behemoth to be both a media file repository and a distribution point for all the multimedia content a user might have at home.
Alienware's Hangar 18 media server has been launched on the US market only for the moment and comes with four hot-swappable hard-disk drives that can be hot-swapped at run time without damaging the running mu ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 12:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell to Rig Its XPS M1730s With Dual GeForce 8800M GTX Graphics |  | Back in September 2007, Dell announced their high-end XPS M1730 notebook, an extremely powerful mobile system that came with a 17-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo processor, dual drive configurations, as well as a plethora of ports and connectors.
The XPS notebook quickly became a success, and since it would flawlessly run the latest gaming titles, Dell issued a special version, dedicated to the ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CES 2008: NEC to Show Yet Another Curved Monitor |  | Remember the ultra-wide, curved and extremely expensive gaming monitor from the Alienware / Dell joint venture we have told you about? It was one of the biggest attraction points at the Consumer Electronics Show, since the next-gen Eee PC went missing ... [read more >>] | | 10 January 2008, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CES 2008: Alienware to Showcase Their Huge Curved Monitor |  | Sure thing this year's Consumer Electronics Show is full of surprises. Since gaming gear is a major part of the big picture, Alienware has come with a new gaming monitor prototype. What makes it special is the curved aspect of the wide display, as seen in the picture.
The monitor is more than a traditional display. Alienware has dropped the LCD panel and adopted a revolutionary technology, called DLP, that makes it respon ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nvidia's 8800M GTX Moves Gaming to Notebook Arena |  | It was just a matter of time until Nvidia took the idea of laptop hardcore gaming seriously. The latest 8800M series GPUs have made their official entry in the mobile arena with the 8800M GTS & 8800M GTX models.
Featuring a 256-bit memory interface, 512MB of maximum dedicated graphics memory, 800MHz memory clock, 500MHz Core Clock speed and 1250MHz of Shader Clock, the 8800 GTX line of graphical processors operate at lower clock[AD ... [read more >>] | | 20 November 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware's New Area-51 ALX Desktop System: Power of the Overclocked Quad-Core Intel Penryn Unleashed |  | Alienware has been creating specialized, high-end, gaming-oriented rigs for quite some time now, providing certain configurations that really sound "alien" to most normal users. And now the "alien" engineers have come up with yet another technical marvel, because the company has just announced the Area-51 ALX desktop with the new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, the first 45nm desktop processor. Furthermore, they ... [read more >>] | | 13 November 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Boosts Performance with 64GB SSDs |  | Solid state drives are gaining some ground and market acceptance on the mobile computing segment as their low power consumption, light weight and shock resistance are highly valuable and are compensating for the higher price tag and lower data storage capabilities. On the desktop market segment, solid state drives are not fairing equally well as desktop computer users are more performance oriented and the smaller storage capabilities of th ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 03:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Offers up to 640GB of Storage on Its Hard Drives |  | Mobile computing platforms are usually known for more restrictive storage space offerings than their desktop based counterparts that are offering lavishly big and spacious hard disk drives coupled with a host of other external storage features and possibilities. While the general situation is improving little by little for mobile users, Alienware is one of the companies that are not really happy with the current state of affairs and it jus ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Area-51 m9750 Laptop Gets Dual SSDs |  | Solid state drives are having a field day as more and more high end products like laptops and notebooks are using them as upgrade options as they have no moving parts and so are more resilient to shocks while providing faster data transferring speeds than typical hard disk drives at lower power costs. The main drawback of the solid state drives remains their very high price and that only if users are willing to disconsider the fact that mo ... [read more >>] | | 11 September 2007, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Customize Your Laptop to The Extreme |  | While every computer manufacturer and vendor allows its clients to customize their desired machine within certain limits, usually this process is reduced to selecting the preferred parts from a list. True customization can usually only be achieved when buying all the hardware parts separately and assemble the computer system from scratch but this approach is too complicated for most users. In order to meet the demands of users that desire ... [read more >>] | | 29 August 2007, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Has a Thing for SSDs |  | Solid State Drives (SSD for short) are from some people's point of view the much awaited replacement of the old hard disk drives. They offer a few significant advantages over the mechanical disk drives, mostly a higher read speed, lower power consumption and a more robust design. On the downside is the still low storage capacity and the prohibitive price. So, the old hard disk drives are not in danger to become obsolete too ... [read more >>] | | 25 July 2007, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Alienware Area-51: Power And Style |  | 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 gam ... [read more >>] | | 20 July 2007, 02:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Number One PC Manufacturer in the World |  | For the prize of the biggest PC manufacturer in the world, there is an ongoing struggle between Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM, just to name a few. Winning in such an “event” is a great achievement, because, for one, it means that you have sold the biggest number of PCs in the world, and it also represents that you are the top dog. After months of deliberating, the numbers are in, the votes are all valid, and, drums roll please, the winne ... [read more >>] | | 19 April 2007, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First Systems with a 1TB Hard Drive |  | Dell and Alienware have introduced Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' 1TB hard drive as an option for consumers who want to buy a desktop system from the XPS, Aurora and Area-51 series of desktops. The previous offer regarding storage was Seagate's 750GB hard drive, now the second largest hard drive in these companies' offer.
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive chosen has some pretty nifty features including, besides ... [read more >>] | | 15 March 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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