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Alienware has again pushed the envelope, producing one of the most powerful notebooks known to us Homo sapiens. The Area 51 m17x notebook is Alienware’s newest addition to its lineup and it surely will make its owner the subject of very pleasant geeky envy. Let us quickly breeze through its vital specs before you start thinking of bolstering your esteem by owning one.

At its heart is an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor with a 4 MB L2 cache. Combine this with the 800 MHz fronts side bus and 4GB ofDDR2 RAM and one can already sense a winner. The entire world is witnessing an exodus to High Definition graphics - which has just begun – and this particular notebook offers resplendent HD. In the world of high-end, high fidelity notebook multi-GPU systems are a must and the m17 is fitted with NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX in a dual GPU SLI configuration with up to 1 GB of graphics memory. It features a 1 TB hard drive in RAID 0 configuration.

Once fitted with a TV tuner, it transforms into an HD digital video recorder. All the mesmerizing graphics are delivered on a 17 in. Widescreen WUXGA 1920 x 1200 with 1200p HD resolution support. It has two speakers with a subwoofer and 7.1/5.1 Digital High-Definition Audio (8 channel) to offer a sumptuous HD gaming experience. It comes loaded with Windows Premium or Ultimate. The design is a little boxy but still possesses the uncanny look and feel of an Alienware. In fact so uncanny that lesser mortals (read: noobs) might not venture more than a sly look fearing that it belongs to either NASA or extraterrestrials.  The range begins at $2,749.

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