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Alienware M17 Review
Well, I am not usually a gamer but this is pretty incredible. I am playing a video game right now on a laptop and I don’t even think you call this a laptop. As a matter of fact they really call it a desktop replacement because for the most part it is an entire desktop computer that has been built into a one form factor here. It’s not something that you necessarily want to be travelling with. It is extremely heavy. It’s definitely incredible for giving presentations but it is all about gaming. It is from a company called Alienware interesting note in was acquired by Dell so it is one of those sorts of set companies that specializes in this type of gaming machines.
It got a 17-inch high resolution screen. It actually does full HD video. You can get up to 1080P resolution in it. It actually has two video cards built into it from ATI and what that does especially for gamers is it allows them to use a technology called Crossfire which uses the processing power, bolt the cards to play like one video game. So you get incredible resolution in the frames per second and you also get really good high resolution graphics. So that is something that you definitely want to look for. This version that they sent us is around $2000.00 so it has the dual core processor in it but you can actually get the quad core processor as an upgrade. You might take that price up to around 3 grand or so. Beautiful design on it, beautiful matte finished. It kind of reminds me of little bit of the Mac books that you look at.
The backlight keyboard is great because a lot of gamers they like to play sort of in dark rooms and what-not so, so having that keyboard lit so that you can see where your keys are. It’s great to have a couple of interesting things. We got an incredible sound system built into it. If you actually look at the bottom here but it is got a little subwoofer actually built into it as well. But one of the things that I thought was incredible is the connectivity.
Obviously pretty heavy, something that you definitely don’t want to carry around, I mean moving from you know your bedroom to the kitchen is fine but carrying it on a business trip probably will break your back but if you take a look at the back here and check the connectivity its got E-zeta built into it.
So right away it’s got one of the fastest connections for adding external drives. It’s got HDMI of course so you can get that high-resolution video and audio in a digital signal out of it. Of course, it’s got USB and network built into it. It has a TV tuner actually built into it and that’s from ATI as well. It basically allows you to capture television and record TV to your computer here. So using something like Windows media center inside a Vista you can take full advantage of that feature. I actually spin it right around on the side here more connectivity. It’s got the FireWire port built into it. You are going to find a lot of cameras like camcorders that are taking like HD footage.
We’ll have a Fire wire out on them that will go right into here and if you take a look here it’s actually got optical out as well and that’s basically another audio signal. So you can see here that this machine is got pretty much everything that you need in it. So what is about incredible screen, high resolution graphics, incredible processing power, three gigs of RAM in around the $2000.00 price point. This is a gamer’s dream. It is made by Alienware. It’s called the M17 model that we’re looking at here today. Let me go back into that game and see if I can figure out how to win. Mike could kick my butt and piss right now.
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