Alienware M17X Review - PC World

Turns out you can put a price on laptop power. To be precise, Alienware's M17x costs $4799 (as of 08/29). Scary part: That's a fairly "reasonable" price among the desktop replacement notebook set. Do you--or even most hardcore gamers--need this kind of juice?

Like the M17, this latest Alienware laptop tries loading up on features while still achieving a fairly reasonable entry price for a base model ($1799 in the case of the M17x). The base-level 17-inch machine will earn a warm reception from gamers but, of course, what descended upon my desktop was anything but entry-level. It's got every conceivable bell and whistle, from a Blu-ray drive to the backlit illuminated keyboard.

[SactoGamer]

If almost $4.8K is a reasonable price, I'd hate to see what an expensive one would cost.

[Pandamobile]

This is a high-end gaming PC disguised as a laptop. It's going to be expensive.

[xTruthx]

I have bough alienware laptops and they r totally worth the money. Never have had probs with any of them while I have had probs with my dell laptops and compaq one. If i had the money right now I would buy that laptop. Not 5G's offcourse but 2,500 or less would be fine.

[STONEY4]

Then unless you take that laptop to other places often, just get a desktop. You can build one better than this laptop for under $2500.

[Major_Tom]

For 5K you could make a computer that runs crysis at 200 FPS if not more.

[STONEY4]

The technology isn't avaliable for that yet, but for maybe 3-4k you can probably run it at around 90-120 with Tri-SLI 285s.

[n4f]

how about asus g71gx a1 cheaper better warenty almost same thing in the box
or asus w90 cheaper better warenty crossfire better specs
ill provide a web site to coompare those gaming beat

[hates video games]

You could build this for way cheaper.

[digger18]

You can build a Laptop???? Wow

[STONEY4]

He means you can build a desktop probably 4 times more powerful than this, get a nice big 1920x1200 monitor, a nice surround sound system, and still end up half the price or less. Laptops were never really meant for gaming, I'm gonna guess this thing heats up pretty good.

[Mr Face Creamer]

My problem is, I need a gaming laptop, a really good one, I have an amazing desktop but I also need a laptop that'll run Crysis maxed out on at least 30FPS, yes I'm a bit needy, but if I'm going to go all out and rape my wallet I might as well do it well.

If your looking for a good gaming laptop, then ASUS is your answer, check the ASUS W90VP which has a 4870X2 2GB card in a laptop under 2500$... And if your looking for something lower then go for an ASUS Republic of Gamers G series laptop.