Alienware m17x - Most powerful laptop!

elpedro · 30 May 2009 at 20:26

The mystery of the Alienware 'allpowerful' has been pierced a few days before E3—a brand new m17x stuffed with so much power it might just cause cancer: Dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards and a Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core CPU for starters.

http://gizmodo.com/5272560/alienwar...al-1gb-nvidia-geforce-gtx-280m-graphics-cards

Super Tigers · 30 May 2009 at 21:03

I would seriously love that beast but I suspect the battery life will be pretty short with sli graphics cards and the quad core cpu. :eek:

Must have at least a 12cell battery. Must be half of Zambia's copper in that beast trying to draw heat out of those cores, probably have to turn the central-heating down in the winter with that monster on your lap

elpedro · 30 May 2009 at 21:05

Super Tigers said:
I would seriously love that beast but I suspect the battery life will be pretty short with sli graphics cards and the quad core cpu.
Must have at least a 12cell battery. Must be half of Zambia's copper in that beast trying to draw heat out of those cores, probably have to turn the central-heating down in the winter with that monster on your lap

Nay, it also has a 9400M GPU, so you can turn off the SLi 280s to conserve power when not gaming

Ross1234 · 30 May 2009 at 21:08

How does it stay cool?

Memphis · 30 May 2009 at 21:09

Not even by the greatest stretch of the imagination is that a laptop.

Super Tigers · 30 May 2009 at 21:10

I suspect that beast will be nearly £3000, the sli-ed 9800GT versions are about £2500 when specced up well. The 12 cell battery is going to take a pounding.

Super Tigers · 30 May 2009 at 21:18

Ross1234 said:
How does it stay cool?

It is cooled by the polar ice cap!

This laptop is causing the ice caps to shrink even faster

yashiro · 30 May 2009 at 21:18

I'll be interested to see how many of these survive one year without a hardware failure.

D D Danneh · 30 May 2009 at 22:52

Not really a laptop is it? It's an SFF strapped to a monitor. Come to think of it, that might be smaller.

thedinks · 30 May 2009 at 22:57

looks very long.

Super Tigers · 30 May 2009 at 23:30

thedinks said:
looks very long.

I keep telling my wife the same thing, but she says it isn't

Monkeynut · 31 May 2009 at 00:29

Super Tigers said:
I keep telling my wife the same thing, but she says it isn't

Strife212 · 31 May 2009 at 01:24

Battery life is probably about 20 minutes in gaming mode.

PinkFloyd · 31 May 2009 at 09:53

That's insane. lol.

It has an Nvidia GeForce 9400M integrated GPU, so you can boost our battery life from 15 seconds to 26.3 seconds when you need to go that extra mile

Haha!