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Alienware Aurora m9700 17-inch Notebook
First Looks
It's always fun when the UPS guy shoots you a look that says You lucky bastard. A friend of mine worked in the parcel world, and he threw boxes with all kinds of neat things in them (the best was a little cylinder the size of a coffee can that weighed over a hundred pounds and was wrapped in international "Radioactive Materials, Caution" tape) so the silly validation of Alienware=Cool had already passed an acid test. And for a second, it seemed as though I was shipped a desktop--the box was titanic. After boxes inside of boxes, I found the thing. Big. Heavy. Exceptionally good-looking.                     I formed a hunch when I was unboxing this computer. This thing came with a lot of extras; included was a TV tuner, a remote, a Logitech gaming mouse. . .part of the cost had to have been the markup on the numerous accessories. This, to me, is a good thing; see, you don't have to buy the accessories. Included in the package was:
And one equally huge, striking computer: The m9700, configured as I received it, is shown on the left below. For kicks, I configured a more economical m9700 which would still prove to be very capable.
           
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: First Looks Page 3: Test Setup Page 4: Testing - HL2 Episode 1 Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R. Page 6: Testing - Company of Heroes Page 7: Testing - Prey Page 8: Testing - Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 9: Testing - 3DMark 06 Page 10: Performance Summary Page 11: Performance Summary, Continued... Page 12: Conclusion 
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
mjsmom
on July 27, 2007 - 10:07 pm My non-tech comments. . .just browsing your articles today. . .would love to have a laptop, any laptop. . .keep writing. . .I'm loving it. gm
2 - Posted by
Kurtis
on July 28, 2007 - 2:09 am Thanks for the kind words, mjsmom. :)
3 - Posted by
Bloodylip
on August 23, 2009 - 3:44 pm I want but can't afford.
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