Laptops Arena

WidowPC, a leader in gaming computer hardware, announced today that they have photographic evidence of actual Dell laptop customer-hostages fleeing the Dell campus in Round Rock, Texas.

"The customer exodus stems from a combination of Dell's exploding laptop fiasco, WidowPC's price point on their Sting 517D gaming laptop, starting at roughly $100 lower than Dell's XPS gaming product, culminating in a subliminal feeling of being held hostage by Dell's robotic phone staff," said Jake M., an actual Dell customer.

The WidowPC Sting 517D gaming laptop uses a safe battery. Dell faced massive recalls after photographs of exploding Dell laptops surfaced on the Internet. "WidowPC has never used exploding batteries in our laptops," said Joshua McClure, chief executive at WidowPC. "Our complex statistical customer analysis has shown that customers don't appreciate randomly exploding products especially when offered in combination with a lack of service and support."

In addition to a notable lack of incendiary devices, WidowPC's dual core Sting 517D gaming laptop also features Intel's latest Core 2 Duo Merom mobile CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX video card with 512MB DDR3 memory, up to 4 GB of memory, up to 200 GB of high speed SATA hard drive capacity, DVD-RAM technology, high speed wireless, Bluetooth, a TV tuner card, and host of memory card slots, ports and multimedia connections.

It also comes with over $400 in free software, free lifetime tech support from real humans in America. Pricing starts at $2,195, roughly $100 lower than Dell's XPS product.

Via windowpc.

If you demand the ultimate in gaming performance, check out the WindowPC Sting 517D.

The WidowPC Sting 517D is a high-end gaming notebook with more power than most desktops.

At $2700 (starting), WidowPC Sting 517D features :

* Processor: Intel Core2Duo T7600 2.33GHz
* Memory: 2GB WidowPC L33T RAM
* Screen: 17" 1920x1200 WUXGA
* Hard Drive One: 100GB 7200RPM SATA
* Hot Swappable Hard Drive: 100GB 7200RPM SATA (only available on special
request)
* Hot Swappable Optical Drive: External DVD-RAM Multidrive
* Video Card: nVidia 7900 GTX 512MB Cache
* Wireless: Intel Pro Wireless 54Mbps a/b/g with Bluetooth
* Operating System: Microsoft XP Professional
* Media Features: 1.3Mpixel Digital Video Camera, 4-in-1 card reader

So, how much is one willing to pay to have the ultimate gaming machine? A notebook with full specifications like our test WidowPC Sting 517D has will cost above and beyond what a normal notebook runs, but for that, it comes with the phenomenal design, excessive power, and a one-of-a-kind ownership experience that is to be expected of a notebook of this stature.

Out of all the 17” notebooks I have reviewed in the past year, the WidowPC Sting 517D has been my favorite. I do feel the price is a bit high, but I would not hesitate to recommend the Sting 517D to the extreme gamer with a good deal of cash to spare.

View full review here.

While most gaming notebooks stretch their chassis to accommodate a massive screen, the Widow PC Sting 917X2 builds up; this is the thickest model we’ve seen. The right side features two DVD drive bays, and the left side can house dual hard drives.

The Sting 917x2’s price/performance ratio is out of alignment. The systems from Alienware, Dell, and Vigor offer much more power for significantly less money. With remarkable SLI systems hovering around $3,000, dropping over five grand for a dual-core system doesn’t make sense.

Emphasizing dual core over SLI allows for much better media application performance, but the system’s 13-pound weight is simply too taxing to make the Sting 917x2 a truly portable media studio.

View full review here.