A gaming monster which completely justifies the high price and the name.

Sum and Substance:

Thumbs Up:

A great laptop for gaming and video watching. Great looks(gorgeous, in fact) we just couldn’t stop staring at this baby! This beast is fast and can take what ever you throw at it!

Thumbs Down:

Expensive, bad sound quality, nothing else.

Inside the Trunk:

Power adapter, Six Cell battery.

The Whiz Kid Speaks:

15.6 inch display, 1920 x 1080 resolution, graphics – Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M/1GB, Hard disk – 250GB/7200 rpm, RAM 4 GB (Expandable to 8GB),  1.73-GHz Intel Core i7-Q820, Bluetooth 2.1 Ports – DisplayPort, eSATA/USB, Firewire, Headphone, Microphone, VGA, 3 USB ports, Card slots/Card reader -  8-1 card reader; ExpressCard/54, Weight 9 pounds(without adapter) Size 14.9 x 12.2 x 1.9 inches, Optical Drive: BD-ROM/DVD+/-RW, OS – Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit.

Razzle Dazzle:

Once you see this laptop, you will agree that the name suits this gadget. The looks will give you the idea that it is made on other planet. Alienware is completely haphazard but downright sexy! Everything about this laptop rocks!

There are lights everywhere on the laptop to add to the attractiveness of this laptop. There is the display, light along the touchpad, under the keyboard, the Alienware head shaped button on the top of the keyboard and also on the back of the lid.

Inside Dope:

Alienware was acquired by Dell in 2006 and later Dell slowed down its production of it XPS gamming laptops and Alienware was sold as gaming notebooks from the stables of Dell. Now Alienware M15x looks very pretty and you might think that you will take it around to show it to your friends. Hold on! This baby weighs nine pounds so will head straight to a masseuse for a shoulder massage if you carry it.

The Alienware M15x is style personified and it is made for gaming freaks. The display is 15.6 inch and this is something we weren’t happy about. With 9 pounds weight, this product is certainly not portable, so why not have a 17 inch screen. Gaming would have been more fun with a bigger screen.

Talking about other features we were blown off our feet from the 1920X1080 resolution. Yes! This screen can take full HD videos. You can play games in all its glory on this laptop and you can also watch full HD movies, and trust me, with this display you will see every detail of the video to the fullest. There were occasional reflections but that didn’t stop us from drooling at the screen for ages. Display of this class has been unheard of. The LCD is not a TN panel as most laptops have but an IPS quality panel which gives superior video.

The excellent display quality was marred by the sound quality that the laptop offers. There are two front mounted speakers which don’t give great sound. Sound it loud, no doubt, about that but there was lack of bass and listening to music wasn’t a memorable experience. We expected better sound to go along with the sounds while gaming.

Alienware has Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M/1GB certainly has a lot of juice for handling high end games. You won’t complain with the graphics and this laptop is best for gaming. The company has spared no ends when it comes to graphics and trust me, you wont see graphics like this on other notebooks.

Now let’s talk about the keyboard. Typing on the keyboard was comfortable. The keys are separated adequately and there is keyboard lighting underneath. This is not all, you can change the lights of the keyboard at various places, for example you can make one set of keys look blue, other green, etc. The background lighting ads to the fun of the games and we refused to get off from the laptop even after playing Warcraft for hours. It was more fun when we played with all lights switched off except the light from the LCD and keyboard lighting. Your wrists won’t beg for mercy while you are typing on this baby, there is adequate wrist rest while typing. The track pad is aligned little towards the left.

There is Blu-ray player in the notebook, so bring on those Blu ray HD content discs. We were expecting a blu ray player in the device because all this high end hardware would have been waste without a Blu-ray player. Above the keyboard are soft touch buttons for ejecting discs and controls like play pause stop for media. And there are two buttons for AlienFusion control panel, one for controlling lights and other for its power-tweaking Stealth mode.

The computer isn’t made for portability; it has a six cell battery for back up. We didn’t expect the battery to last too long; the high end hard ware would eat up all the juice. This battery will last you a little less than one and half hours, you can still add up to this by buying a nine cell battery but this would add to the bulk.

There are a couple of softwares in the laptop like others. But we don’t like our computers delivered with softwares which we don’t need at all. They take up the disc space and also slow down the system. You have to manually delete the software one after the other before we start using the system. Also the soft wares are mostly trial wares which keep bugging us to buy the full version after the trial period expires.

This notebook doesn’t have much soft wares and all you get is Command Center, needed to tweak lights and power settings, Alienware Respawn (to restore the system), Dell DataSafe, CyberLink PowerDVD 8 and YouCam, and Nero SmartStart Essentials.

Nitty Gritty:

This is the best gaming laptop we have ever seen, watching videos is a pure pleasure too. The only thing that may stop you from buying this laptop is the cost. But the cost is totally justified given the performance of this monster. This notebook gives you an option for consoles like PS3 and XBOX360.

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