Alienware  Area-51 m17x the Most Powerful Notebook Ever was designed and engineered from the ground up by Alienware’s expert engineers both for performance and portability, the notebook features extreme processors, high performance graphics.An Intel Core2 Extreme processor teams with the fearsome power of dual, SLI-enabled NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs. The notebook’s 500GB mobile hard drives are the world’s largest. Dual drives configured in a RAID 0 array plus a 500GB Smart Bay drive for additional storage give the user an astounding 1.5TB capacity, accommodating approximately 250 games, 375 full-length movies or nearly 400,000 songs.

Features:

* NVIDIA SLI technology with dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics cards
* Intel’s 45nm Core 2 Extreme X9000
* Up to 1TB of hard drive capacity configured in a RAID 0 array
* Smart Bay technology that allows users to swap out their optical drive for an additional 500GB hard drive, bringing the notebook’s storage capacity to 1.5TB.
* The Alienware Command Center control panel, home to exclusive programs such as the AlienFX customizable lighting feature and the AlienFusion power management system.

Review By compreviews

Alienware’s Area-51 m17x is a very hefty machine that is really designed with the sole purpose of being a high performance gaming system. It has a vareity of features and options that make it well suited as a portable media platform, but the high cost of the system makes the system a bit harder to justify.

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Review By reviews.cnet

The Alienware really shines when packed out with dual Nvidia GeForce 9800 GPUs and an Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor. Of course, few people, even serious gamers, need that much horsepower, but as a display of conspicuous consumption, it’s hard to beat, with an illuminated keyboard, imposing new black-slab aesthetic, and a Blu-ray drive.

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Review By laptopmag

The m17x, aptly named for its 17-inch glossy display, features a full and comfortable keyboard with backlighting and a large, smooth touchpad that sits flush with the palm surface and is discernible only by a backlit square outline. The lid felt a bit chintzy, though; it doesn’t feel very sturdy and has a bit of a bounce to it. The m17x boasts a full number pad, a feature the m15x does not offer.

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Review By goodgearguide

You can customise the colours of the illuminated areas using the supplied AlienFX Editor software, so you can give the unit a fresh look every time you get bored of a particular combination. The unit’s illumination is sure to turn heads at LAN parties, giving you an advantage over those who are distracted by it; it’s also a practical design for using the laptop in a dark environment, as the lights won’t tire your eyes.

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Review By pcworld

With two NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics cards installed in SLI mode, you’ll also get a lot of zip when gaming. The unit scored 12,348 in 3DMark06, which is about 25 per cent higher than it would have scored with only one graphics card. In Battlefield 2 it averaged 80 frames per second, while in GRID it averaged 27fps. GRID was very smooth during regular gameplay, so the slightly slow rate didn’t hinder the movement and control of the cars. These results were obtained while playing at the native 1920×1200 resolution of the monitor, so you’ll get even more performance if you play at a lower setting.

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Starting Price  $1,799 at alienware

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