Alienware Area-51 M17x

Advantages: Portable, Powerful,good graphics
Disadvantages: costly

...This is a great machine that combines just about everything that you would want from a PC plus the portability. My only regret was the hefty price tag. It may have been value for money but even if they did cut it down a bit and put in better starting programmes. I felt that the PC could have been more like a classic windows PC. It can clip in to a stand and then link on to a nother PC. The people at Alienware are very help ful and provide good tips for starting. The PC has exellent graphics and sound card and when you do tally up the hard ware inside it it does make sense the price tag. I feel this is a great buy for someone who needs power on the move. Super Buy... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Large screen, upgradable to a degree.
Disadvantages: Bulky, Heavy, Unstable, Very short battery life

...Well I thought that I would sell my decktop and purchase an alienware area 51 7700. All the reviews have told me that these are good machines, which convinced me to buy one. when i first got the laptop and turned it on i was shocked to find out how slow and laggy it was. Especially the games. It had a P4 3Gig processor with 512 ram and a X800 ATI card. Now you would think it could cope with call of duty. It did but not very well. So i stuck 2GB Kingston DDR2 ram in it. Well it speeded it up, but the game play was still way behind my desktop (which was no where near as powerfull). So i then decided in a last vain attempt to increase performance i would put two hard drives in it on a raid. This also speeded up the loading. But the games were still lagging. All i can think is that it was just not upto the power requirements... Read review

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Advantages: Great preformence and quality!
Disadvantages: Build time maybe slow depending on parts you order

...To some up the Area-51 M51x the only word i think i can use is AWESOME! When i was looking at the M15x there was so much to choose from in terms of spec. After many hours and alot of thinking i decided to choose the following spec: [1] Area-51® m15x Display: 15.4" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1200p) System Lighting: Alienware® AlienFX® System Lighting - Blue Operating System: Genuine Windows® Vista Home Premium - English Graphics Processor : 512MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 8800M GTX Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme X9000 2.8GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB) Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 2048MB Turbo Cache Memory: Intel Turbo Cache Memory 1GB - Accelerate Data Transfer Speed System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 320GB 5400 RPM SATA Smart Bay: 320GB 5400RPM (8MB Cache) Smart Bay CD/DVD/RW: Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc... Read review

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