Alienware launches their first CrossFire gaming PC notebook

Posted Nov 3rd 2008 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware

Late last week gaming PC company Alienware teased its customers on a major new announcement. Today the company revealed what they were hinting at with the announcement of their new M17 gaming PC notebook. The 17-inch display notebook has the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 mobile processor and is the first Alienware notebook to support ATI's Crossfire graphics set-up with two ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 cards inside.

Alienware's press release states that their M17 notebook can be configured with a Core 2 Duo processor, Crossfire and 3GB of memory for under $2,000. Of course you can go all out and get one configured with up to 4 GB of memory and 1 TB of hard drive storage via two 500 GB drives in a RAID 0 set-up. Obviously this is a desktop replacement notebook rather than one that would be used to do extensive travelling with.

Tags: alienware, alienware-m17-notebook, amd, ati, crossfire, dell, intel

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ugh, what a waste. Could spend just over half that and get an equivilant desktop. Unless your job has you more or less living in hotels I just have never seen the point of such bulky and expensive laptops.Posted at 8:08PM on Nov 3rd 2008 by Sokkratez

The most expensive laptop you should ever need is a MacBook Pro + a license of Windows if you are one of "them". Any other person that needs more power is a hardcore gamer or high-graphics developer and both groups know that if you are going to be using top of the line graphics then you use a desktop.Posted at 10:17PM on Nov 3rd 2008 by Marshall Williams