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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Alienware Area-51 m15x notebook


This notebook from Alienware is a good performance machine mainly for the bussiness users. The machine consist of a core 2 exteeme x 9000 processor rnning at a clock speed of 2.8GHz,a 7200rpm 200 GB hard disk,2 GB of DDR2 RAm at 800Mhz and a 8800M GTX graphics card.

The screen has a top-notch 1,920x1,200 resolution and the brightest backlight we’ve seen, coming in at 156.6cd/m2. It has a similar black level to the Acer Aspire 8920G, but because it lacks a glossy finish, contrast feels subjectively poorer. On the upside, you don’t see your reflection in its screen.
Intel’s Core 2 Extreme X9000 graces the m15x with its 2.8GHz clock speed and 44W thermal design point (TDP) - 9W higher than regular Core 2 Duos, so energy efficiency isn’t its strong point. In fact, the m15x lasted just one hour and 30 minutes in our DVD playback test, despite a capable 5,200mAh battery being fitted.

In the flesh, the m15x is special. Alienware’s new AlienFX customised lighting pumps out a selection of 11 colours from the three Alienware logos, the blue-lit bezel, touch-sensitive controls, the touchpad and through the keyboard. You can set the lighting to transition from one colour to the next, or simply set colours to strobe.

The speakers placed below the screen are tiny for a gaming laptop and ypu have to use headphones if you have to play games.

Overall this is a good laptop for a bussiness user but if you are a enthusiast look anywhere else.

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