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Alienware Area-51 ALX Gets Racing Fins, Core i7 Processors To Go Faaast

The updated Area-51 case design includes an eye-catching active-louver cooling system (those fins at the top), internal lighting, and a motorized front door. And Alienware says the top-end ALX version of the liquid-cooled rig is the “most powerful” it’s created. Specs on the full-tower go as high as a factory-overclocked 3.86GHz Core i7 975 processor,…

Alienware’s M15x Now Has the World’s Fastest Mobile Processor

Intel’s Core i7 processor kicks ass, as we already know. Alienware is busting out an update to its M15x laptop today with the new mobile version of i7, which is to be officially unveiled today at Intel’s Developer Conference. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-intels-core-i7-processor-is-a-beautif-5099060 The 15-inch Alienware M15x, which was introduced back in January, is a mobile gamer’s paradise.…

Now All the Alienware m17x’s Keyboard Needs is a Unicorn

Matt told me the Alienware’s m17x notebook was blinged out like it “just landed on earth after a long trip from a planet populated entirely by a evolved race of disco lights”. I guess this is what he was talking about. [Crave] https://gizmodo.com/alienwares-allpowerful-m17x-obliterates-crysis-with-dua-5272560

Alienware OptX AW2210 21.5-Inch Gaming Monitor Goes 1920×1080, Actually Isn’t Hideous

We caught Alienware’s OptX AW2210 21.5-inch gaming monitor a couple months back—it’s part of Alienware’s “more accessible” push, but it’s got respectable specs, cramming in a 1920×1080 resolution with a supposed 80,000:1 contrast ratio for $299. You’ve also got dual HDMI ports, four USB ports and what has to be the most straightforward design of…

Alienware’s ‘Allpowerful’ m17x Obliterates Crysis With Dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M Graphics Cards

The mystery of the Alienware ‘allpowerful’ has been pierced a few days before E3—a brand new m17x stuffed with so much power it might just cause cancer: Dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards and a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core CPU for starters. https://gizmodo.com/alienware-teases-us-with-allpowerful-laptop-riddle-5271970 You can also stuff it with up to 8GB…

Alienware Teases Us With “Allpowerful” Laptop Riddle

As you may already know, Alienware has a gaming laptop coming out next month with a name that automatically sets the bar impossibly high: “Allpowerful.” The latest ad in their teaser campaign features a riddle that has been cracked by Larven on the NotebookReview forums. Apparently, the gibberish on the image above reads: The sum…

Area-51 750i: Alienware Starting at $1050

Just a few years ago, most of us would have laughed at the prospect of a $1,000 Alienware system. But such is the reality now that the company is owned by Dell. Their newly announced Area-51 750i starts at a palatable $1,049 and features a 3GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, GeForce 9800…

Alienware M17 Powered by ATI CrossFireX Dual Graphics Cards, Still Unmovable

Alienware’s newest 17-inch barely portable notebook, the M17, looks a whole lot like their M17x beastie, but instead of rocking Nvidia SLI, it’s Alienware’s first ever ATI CrossFireX notebook, with dual Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards. ATI’s big point when I talked the new mobile CrossFireX with them is that they support DirectX 10.1 and…

Confirmed: Alienware Assimilating Dell Gaming, XPS Becoming High-End Consumer Line

One of Dell’s official blogs provides a bit of clarity as to the discombobulation of the XPS gaming line in favor of Alienware. Basically, the XPS and Alienware development teams are being fused together, and XPS is going to go in a more high-end consumer direction (“XPS isn’t going away, though it may go in…

Alienware: Gaming PCs Are Hitting a Performance Wall

The last place I would expect to hear even a glimmer of doubt about the performance potential of gaming PCs would be Alienware. Yet Alienware’s Marc Diana spills that 32-bit machines just aren’t cutting it at the pure performance level anymore, saying that faster chips with more cores aren’t the solution: 64-bit systems are the…

Alienware Assimilates Dell’s Gaming Business, XPS Gaming Machines On the Way Out

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is killing its four big balls XPS gaming machines (not the entire XPS line, like the standard notebooks, which are selling really well) to focus all of its juice on Alienware as its sole gaming brand. The timeline isn’t overly specific, but the clock is ticking for…

Alienware “Fastest Ever” 17-Inch Area-51 m17x Gaming Notebook On Sale Right Now

Alienware’s latest community effort is AlienNetwork, a “digital channel” which debuted today. To kick off the show with a bang, they revealed that their “fastest ever” 17-inch Area-51 m17x gaming notebook shown back in November is launching today at 5PM (right now, give or take). Versus the m15x, it’s got a higher res 1920×1200 screen,…

Alienware’s Updated Aurora Gaming Desktop Starts at $999

Alienware has injected life into the Aurora line with a new gaming rig fitted with quad-core AMD Phenom 9850 processors, your choice of ATI Radeon 3870 X2, HD3850, or HD3870 graphics cards (single or CrossFire configuration), up to 4GB Dual Channel DDR2, and tons of HDD space. Naturally, tricking this thing out with all of…

Alienware Area-51 m15x Gaming Laptop Officially Released From Its LED-Lit Cocoon

While we’re supposed to be mesmerized by the Alienware m15x’s impressive-for-a-15-incher specs—Intel Core 2 Extreme, NVIDIA Geforce 8800M GTX and hot-swappable dual hard drives—we’re kind of more tranced out by its over-the-top LED glow. It’s available today, months after first being teased—a bit more hype than necessary for a gaming notebook. The Core 2 Extreme…

Alienware Curved Monitor Looks Like It’s From Another Planet

The Sighting: We can’t have one of these Alienware curved monitors until the second half of this year, but until then, we’ve been abducted by its four nearly seamless and sharp screens of DLP goodness. Lit by LEDs, this 2880×900 monster is well over three feet wide and is said to have an other-worldly .02ms…

NVIDIA’s Three-Way SLI Graphics Cards Cost More Than Actual Three-Ways

If tying two video cards together in an SLI configuration doesn’t quite get you the frames-per-second you need, NVIDIA’s just intrduced three-way SLI, which does exactly what it sounds like. Now you can use their nForce 680i SLI motherboard to tie together tres GeForce 8800 GTX or 8800 Ultras to give a 2.8X boost over…

Alienware Further Teases Us With Powerful Area-51 Notebooks

All that pre-release hype from Alienware we heard last week led up to even more pre-release hype today, with the company unveiling its two new laptops, the Area-51 m15x and m17x. It’s calling the radical PCs “the most powerful notebooks ever created.” There’s still an air of mystery around the two laptops, but we do…

Alienware Confirms Upcoming Area-51 m15x and m17x Laptops

Crave just uncovered the meaning of the weird Alienware emails we’ve been getting, obliquely worded invitations to a November 19 product unveiling. Well, the product, or products, are two new laptops, the Area-51 m15x and m17x. The 15″ and 17″ systems are ground-up redesigns featuring crazy angles, Martian runes (as seen above) and as many…

Alienware Intros New Penryn-based PCs

As soon as Intel finished announcing the arrival of the new 45nm Penryn chips, Alienware announced an upgrade of their own, incorporating a 3GHz Penryn into their Area-51 ALX desktop. Using their advanced cooling system, Alienware claims that this PC will run at 4GHz. Starting at $5500, it will ship shortly after Christmas. [Alienware] https://gizmodo.com/intel-penryn-arrives-in-16-flavors-for-desktops-and-ser-321435

Alienware’s new AlienExchange program will allow customers to trade in “select electronic devices” in exchange for a gift card or check towards Alienware products. Plus, trading in an old Alienware PC will score you $200 bucks on top of your trade in quote towards a new computer. The way these things are priced, you will…