Alienware, the PC company
made
famous for its high-end gaming systems with almost insane performance,
has announced two new notebooks that are set to revolutionalize the
mobile gaming scene. Powered by top-of-the-line Nvidia GeForce
Go
7900 GTX graphics cards, the 17-inch Aurora
m9700 and monster 19-inch
Aurora
mALX are based on AMD Turion processors.
Both
systems come with relatively few USB
and connectivity ports for their size, though you may be able
to
get sets with integrated Airgo MIMO wireless in June (current retail
units come with the standard 802.11b/g Wi-Fi radio). The mALX also
comes bundled with the superior PCMCIA Creative Sound
Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card. The Aurora m9700 and Aurora
mALX are available now for US$1,999 (S$3,119.94) and US$4,499
(S$7,021.81), respectively.
Unfortunately, these systems are available only in the US and there is
no
news of Alienware machines coming to this region.
By
the way, we are using the term mobile computing loosely with these
Alienware PCs. The m9700, possible the first SLI system with a
17-inch display (previous SLI notebooks were 19-inch monsters), is
barely portable at a hefty 3.86kg. As for the 19-inch mALX, there is a
reason a backpack is part of the standard bundle. At 6.8kg,
walking
between LAN party locations may just be what makes your chiropractor
chuckle with glee.
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