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Alienware Aurora mALX Laptop Review

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CNET has reviewed the high-end Alienware Aurora mALX gaming laptop. 'The Alienware Aurora mALX is a show-offy laptop. Its 19-inch display is so massive that you need a huge Alienware backpack to carry it around. Its case features an extremely detailed custom airbrush paint job with a ribbon of metallic color that changes when viewed at different angles. And as with all status symbols, it's expensive: pricing starts at $4,499, and our review unit, which included a number of high-end upgrades, cost almost $5,600. The mALX isn't all bark and no bite, though. With two graphics cards running in a scalable link interface, the mALX achieved the highest frame rates to date on our gaming benchmarks.

That said, the mALX didn't exactly blow away the competition; the 19-inch Eurocom M590K Emperor ($5,430) offers similar gaming performance, and the 17-inch Dell XPS M1710 ($4,215) trails just a bit behind it. And with Intel's Core 2 Duo chips just around the corner, we wonder how much longer the Aurora mALX will own the performance crown. For hard-core mobile gamers who want to turn a few heads as they frag the competition, the Alienware Aurora mALX is the laptop to buy today--but you might want to hold on to your five grand until we get the full picture on the Intel Core 2 Duo in just a few weeks.'

Read: Alienware Aurora mALX Review - CNET

Posted by HCG Admin on August 11, 2006 3:34 PM |

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