If you didn’t know it, Alienware has been taken over by Dell some time ago. Fortunately, this didn’t change much, at least on the surface – the Alienware brand is still on the market, and its products are the same as before – expensive toys for gamers… only that, if I look closer, some of them are real bargains!
The Alienware M17X is just another gaming laptop from Alienware, packing the following specs:
- A single 1GB nVidia GeForce GTX260M GPU (upgradable to dual 1GB nVidia GeForce GTX 280M GPUs!)
- An Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz P8600 CPU (upgradable to a Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core CPU)
- 4GB of RAM (Up to 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM)
- A 250GB 7200-rpm hard drive (upgradable to a 1TB 7200-rpm or to 512MB of solid-state storage capacity [Raid 1 or Raid 0]; users can swap out hard drives by removing the battery)
- A slot-loading DVD-RW drive (upgradable to dual-layer Blu-ray Disc)
- A nine-cell battery
- An nVidia GeForce 9400M G1 GPU with HybridPower technology
- 802.11n Wi-Fi
- An optional 1920-by-1200-resolution edge-to-edge LCD
All that, right inside of the black anodized aluminum hood, just as I love them!
Price? Who cares about the price, when talking about Alienware machines? Probably not those buying them, but – as I was saying earlier – some of the Alienware products are really well placed into the market, and the Alienware M17X is no exception to that rule, starting at $1,799.
