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Written by: Josh Norem, January 2nd, 2008 |
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Where to buy:
 $1699.99
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“With its dual GeForce Go 7950 GTX videocards in SLI and Core 2 Duo processor, this is one blazing-fast notebook..”
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Highs:
Great gaming performance; lots of storage; brilliant display
Lows:
GPUs are DX9; lots of fan noise; wonky webcam and system restore
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Introduction
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Alienware’s Area 51 notebooks have long been heralded as the cream of the crop in gaming notebooks, and the m9750 largely upholds this proud tradition. With its dual GeForce Go 7950 GTX videocards in SLI and Core 2 Duo processor, this is one blazing-fast notebook. The only downside to this much portable power is that it doubles as a space heater, battery life is laughable, and you’ll need a small fortune to pay for it.
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User Reviews
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"Webcam dissapointing"
Carraillo at Feb 26th, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Score: 9
The webcam driver also crashes live messenger if you try to access webcam setting from it and the 1.3 megapixel picture quality does not come through.
That is my only complaint though, system restore works fine.
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"Nothing but trouble"
Jon at Jan 18th, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Score: 3
When I first unboxed it, great stuff. And I mean seriously great stuff. It blows away graphically intensive games. It only took a few weeks for the problems to start though. Persistent hard crashes during game play were probably caused by the machines inability to deal with the excessive heat generated by so many high end components. Whether it was a design fault with my own machine or across the board I don't know, but I do know that 30+ hours on the phone to tech support and sending it back to repair hasn't helped in the slightest. Am curr...
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