Laptops Arena

The AlienExchange Trade-in Program is launched by Alienware, and is a great opportunity for those of you who are bored of your old configurations and want new ones but don’t have enough possibilities.



Within this program you can trade in your goods consisting of electronic devices, toward the purchase of new Alienware products.
You can trade almost anything, from PDAs and projectors to car audio receivers or notebooks.



The steps are simple:
You select the electronic devices you want to trade in, then after the AlienExchange quote is generated you choose an award type in the form of an Alienware gift card or a check.
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More than that, for trading in an old Alienware system, they give you extra $200 on top of what your generated trade-in quote comes out to toward the purchase of a new Alienware system.

The trade-in items are mailed in using a free shipping label that can be printed out.

Alienware has announced their latest laptop “The Area-51 m5790”.

The Area-51 m5790 laptop features a 17-inch widescreen (1920 x 1200) and comes with Windows XP pre-installed but you can upgrade it when Windows Vista hits on January 30th with 50 % discount.

The m5790 boasts a Core 2 Duo processor, up to 2GB DDR2 667MHz RAM, a Blu-ray optical drive with max of 200GB dual HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 graphics with 256 MB memory.

Pricing and availability for Area-51 m5790 has not yet been sent but we expect to hit stores in February.

Via alienware.

Just how big is Alienware’s 19-inch, SLI-based top-of-the-line mALX gaming laptop? Packed into the box is a backpack seemingly large enough for an Everest climb. With dual Nvidia Go 7900 GTX cards and dual HDD support up to 240GB, the Alienware Aurora mALX may be the ultimate rig for flying through the latest games at the highest settings.

At 15 pounds and a base price of $4,499 (our configuration costs $5,549), this system is best suited for LAN parties. Wherever you take the Alienware Aurora mALX, it will dominate the competition.

The mALX’s 3DMark scores promised good things to come (27,116 on 03 and 5,624 on 06), and it generated stellar frame rates in F.E.A.R.: 85 fps on auto-detect and 81 fps with settings maxed. Even with 4X full-screen antialiasing and all lighting and shadow options enabled, that performance was absolutely smooth. The view was so nice we wanted to play the game all over again.

The excellent gaming performance doesn’t quite mean perfect productivity. While the Alienware Aurora mALX is capable of handling any aspect of media and document creation, the AMD processor benchmarks slightly lower than Intel’s Core Duo chips. This huge system requires a lot of power; the battery drained in just over an hour. Wi-Fi strength isn’t great, either, with a mere 8.1 Mbps at 15 feet and 5.9 Mbps at 50 feet.

We were disappointed that despite the ample space, dedicated media controls don’t make an appearance. That’s a notable omission, even though they’re not part of Alienware’s typical design. As a consolation, a Windows Media Center remote is available.

Via laptopmag.

I would recommend the Alienware Area-51 m5750 to anyone that is the above average serious computer enthusiast. It is not the top-shelf computer at Alienware; it is one of their mid-range laptop. It suits my needs very well.

It doesn't come feature heavy like other laptops coming out today (there is no camera and no bluetooth for instance), but it does come complete with better basic materials: an above average screen resolution, great video card, great sound, and of course the best processor on the market today. I'm very happy with my purchase.

I would say that it is a little more money than other machines, but I can't find a mainstream manufacturer with similar specs to really do a fair comparison. I'm confident that this machine will last. The case design and components are just what I was looking for and should keep me with a grin on my face for many years to come.

Via notebookreview.

Today we will be evaluating Alienware's midrange gaming notebook, the 15.4" Area-51 m5550. It is clearly targeted at the gaming and enthusiast crowd, featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, powerful Nvidia graphics, and Alienware's unique case design.

With specifications like our test machine, it gives a new meaning to the word 'performance', and sets itself apart from the competition.

The Alienware Area-51 m5550 is one of the few notebooks I have tested that I feel delivers an outstanding ownership experience.

Granted, it does have its flaws -- poor battery life, a warm operating temperature, and average viewing angles, but no product is going to be perfect, and this one is no exception.

Via notebookreview.