Alienware Area-51 M15X Laptop Review

This laptop is more of a desktop replacement and an upgrade for most. It uses both an integrated graphics adapter and a high performance video card. This is to ensure a longer battery life and to ensure that there is optimum gaming quality.

The Gaming Laptop

Its insides are packed with a NVIDIA SLI technology with dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics cards. It also features Intel's 45nm Core 2 Extreme X9000 mobile processors, which can support just about everything from crisp 3D rendering to high quality audio. It also has a 1TB hard drive – now that is just amazing. That’s not the end either it is packed with even more.

The design is, like expected, amazing. Like most glossy finish laptops this isn’t a finger print magnet and to top it all off this amazing gaming laptop weighs in at well seven pounds, that’s nothing.

It measures in at 14.55” x 10.73” x 1.30”. For a powerful gaming computer like this it isn’t bad at all. Its keyboard is the most unique of all its features. It has a wild lighting scheme which is called AlienFX and lets you pick the colour from seven different colours.

Groovy lights

The right hand side is one blessed with the ordinary ports, it has a 7-in-1 card reader and an Express Card port. There is also a HDMI port along with a single USB port and a Firewire B port.

The left hand side is what Alienware call the smart bay. This bay can be used to add a number of external devices, a second battery, an additional hard drive and even an optical drive. There are also two audio ports, two more USB ports and a Gigabit LAN port and the good old power connector.

Along with all that it has a 15.4” screen, not the biggest, but it does the trick. With everything else this laptop offers I don’t think you can really complain.