Wow, it seems that someone over at PCWorld.com couldn’t keep their mouth shut and announced the Alienware M17x a bit early. No matter, the most important thing is that you see what this baby has under the hood. It’s damn impressive and certainly allpowerful.
Most important, the new M17x notebook comes with a pair of 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs. Impressive, yes. And also battery vampires. If the machine isn’t gaming, it could always fall back on the GeForce 9400M G1 GPU that’s also installed for better battery life.
A Core 2 Extreme quad-core CPU is at the core and can use up to 8GB of RAM 1333MHz DD3 to do its bidding. Plus, it can be config’d with either a RAID 0 or RAID 1 cluster over a 1TB drive or a 512MB SSD. Your choice. The rest is standard fare for a $1,799 + notebook including a Blu-ray drive, WiFi, 1920×1200 LCD, Displayport and HDMI out.
We’ve seen the big boy in person and it’s impressive. We just can’t wait to load some games on a review unit and take her for a spin.
Please please test the battery life on that. It has to be like 10 minutes.
1800 for a laptop…. total waste of money
you could get those specs on a PC for 800 or more less
depends on what you want to do. people in the military on a boat or something would be able to take advantage of this beast. battery will suck tho. we will have to see on the future review…
They would only benefit from a “beast” like this from the sheer portability of the laptop itself. There is no way that the battery life would allow you to not be plugged in for any reasonable amount of time for gaming. The main group of people who would buy this are heavy gamers. Having it plugged in is practically required.
So that said, how many people who would be interested in this thing would need its super portability factor? Most could probably get away with a PC, which would cost quite a bit less, and who doesn’t like saving money when you can?
Still, its a pretty cool laptop and it’s pretty nice looking too, if not hugely massive. That sucker has to weight at least ten pounds!
All hail the Cadillac Escalade of the notebook gaming world!
I agree with Joshua, I see this monstrosity strictly as a desktop replacement pc. Perhaps it would be a very sweet rig for any hardcore lan-partygoers? Just an idea…..
512MB SSD? Mor elike 512GB! Please review battery life.
its mine in 3weeks