Alienware Area-51m 7700 Reviews
The latest Alienware – Area-51m 7700 review comes from IT Reviews. They are starting with a very good question: when is a laptop a ‘desktop replacement’?. Here is the answer:
The usual answer is when it is capable of emulating most of the features of a desktop while still remaining comparatively portable. However, the recent boom in such machines is more usually aimed at serious gamers who don’t want to interrupt their World of Warcraft or Doom 3 experience while they’re on the move, and often that means the name ‘laptop’ is a misnomer.
And now a few words from this review about Alienware Area 51m 7700 laptop:
“So it is with the Area-51m 7700, which for a start weighs a hefty 5.4kg (12lbs) and is therefore more likely to be living on a solid flat surface. It has the trademark alien face with the ultra-cool glowing eyes and in many other respects it’s a monster machine.
As soon as you open it up you’re confronted with a 17-inch widescreen LCD with a maximum resolution of 1,680 x 1,050 pixels, which provides brilliant detail and depth to the most hardcore shooting games, allied as it is to Nvidia’s powerful GeForce Go 6800 graphics card with 256MB memory. It’s powered by a Pentium 4 CPU with hyperthreading technology (3.0 – 3.8GHz, 1MB cache) and up to 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 PC-4200 533MHz memory. 7.1-channel surround sound comes as standard, though only four speakers and a subwoofer are supplied”
The verdict:
The Alienware Area 51 7000 laptop looks cool, it’s too heavy to carry around, but it’s a dream machine for serious gamers who want graphics, speed and performance cranked up to the max. You just have to be willing to pay the equally hefty price tag.
Nice review in my opinion.
Trusted Reviews also features an Alienware Area-51m 7700 review:
“The Alienware name is almost legendary in PC gaming circles.
The Area-51m 7700 laptop from Alienware is built into the same Clevo chassis that I’ve seen previously in the shape of the MV Ixius and the Rock Xtreme Ti. Now, to be fair to Alienware, it’s understandable why this chassis is being used, since it’s the only one currently available that can handle the latest, high-end graphics chipsets, but I for one am looking forward to some new designs for high-power gaming notebooks. Of course Alienware has done its best to make the Area-51m 7700 laptop stand out from its similarly specced competitors
Like all the gaming notebooks based on this Clevo chassis, the Alienware Area-51m 7700 does its job admirably. Performance has been spoiled slightly by the older nVidia graphics card employed in the review sample, but customers will benefit from the newer DDR3 version. Ultimately though, you can buy an almost identically specced machine from Rock, with a higher resolution screen for less. With the basic chassis it had to work with, even Alienware hasn’t been able to transform this large, ungainly notebook into something sleek, sexy and desirable. That said, I imagine that Alienware already has a super-cool replacement waiting in the wings and I can’t wait to see it.
And another interesting review of Alienware Area-51m 7700 comes from PC World:
If not quite extraterrestrial, the Alienware Area-51m 7700 is unique among multimedia laptops. Some notebooks offer better entertainment chops, such as models in Toshiba’s Satellite and HP’s Pavilion lines, but no multimedia laptops I know of flex as much desktop replacement muscle as the 7700. Alienware just needs to apply the finishing touches.
