Nice job Alienware, you did very well launching a sweet system around the same time as Apple’s launch of the ridiculously named Mac Book Air. Normally your releases would attract such fanfare it is not funny, but then there was no element of surprise this time. We had known for well over a month that your latest power gaming notebook was on the way. We even knew what it would be packing under the hood. Still, you could have drummed up a bit more publicity, had you brought this out a little earlier.

The stats of this gaming bad boy, according to the press release are as follows:

• Intel Core 2 Extreme mobile processor power, enabling users to run the latest games and power-hungry applications like post-production video software and music encoding programs at full speed for optimum productivity.

• Cutting-edge graphics delivered by an NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU, fully primed for the new wave of DirectX® 10-fueled games.

• Alienware’s BinaryGFX technology, which provides the flexibility of switching between integrated and high-performance graphics cards.

• Advanced user controls through the Alienware Command Center, including the AlienFX® lighting and the AlienFusion power management system.

• Smart Bay technology giving users on-the-fly customization capabilities with a hot-swappable optical drive, second hard drive and backup battery.

This is one hot gaming notebook, it is just a shame that they mistimed its release so unbelievably badly. The Mac Book Air nearly had me singing its praises until I saw that a superior product was on the market in the form of the Area-51 m15x 15.4-inch notebook. I don’t need thinness, I need gaming juice and this thing has it in spades. Plus that alien head with the glowing eyes is a far cooler logo than a half eaten piece of fruit.

Priced to move between $1,500 and $2,700 (for our money, the mid-ranged $2,100 machine looked the pick of the bunch).

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