Alienware Aurora m9700 announced - first SLI and RAID notebook

Dell’s newest baby Alienware is the company/subsidiary first to make the announcement this time around with its Aurora m9700 machine capable of boasting dual 256MB nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics cards. The pair are ably supported by an AMD Turion 64 processor (AMD is turning up increasingly on laptop gaming rigs), a choice of 1,440 x 900 or 1,920 x 1,200 widescreen 17in displays, up to 240GB of storage (using two 120GB HDDs in RAID 0 array) and a maximum of 2GB RAM.

Amongst the other cherries are an integrated TV tuner, full size keyboard with separate numeric keypad, dual layer DVD rewriter, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 4-in-1 memory card reader, support for high definition audio with surround sound and the option to install Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (at times a blessing, at times a curse).

Trusted Reviews - First SLI 7900 Series Laptops Appear

It seems almost unreal to have a laptop capable of [RAID], but truthfully it has been discussed and nearly demanded for a long time now. I was not expecting to see both SLI and RAID on a laptop straight out of the chute, but here it is. Of course, fully expect to pay Alienware prices for such a machine, with a $4,490 price tag putting it at more than twice the cost of a very expensive desktop. They have an even more expensive 19” model being prepped. The laptops will be available late next month.

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