Alienware unleashes world's most powerful laptop... so far
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 10:29AM 
The Beast Unleashed - AlienwareBy Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
If you've $5k kicking around, has Dell got a deal for you: The Alienware M15x high-performance game system for your lap.
Dell division Alienware recently updated its M15x line of high-performance gaming laptops, now with three flavors packing Intel's fierce Core i7 mobile processor in 1.6Ghz (2.8GHz turbo mode), 1.73GHz (3.06GHz turbo mode) and 2.0GHz (3.2GHz turbo mode) configurations.
These monsters offer high-end, desktop class performance but in a 15. 6-inch notebook form factor, making them the most powerful laptops on the market today - or, the performance PC market being what it is, "at the moment" would be more precise.
Interestingly, while common laptops usually try for smaller and lighter, M15x is in a class of its own, evident in every aspect of its design, which is heck-bent on gaming and processor intensive tasks. Its large, vented case is designed for optimum air ventilation to facilitate the cooling requirements of central and graphics processors. The "Anti-Netbook," as it were.
The first laptop to offer Intel's high end mobile processors, the M15x starts at $1700 and offers a range of pre-built and customization options, including up to 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD drive, a 9 cell extended battery, 2.0 megapixel webcam, Blu-Ray optical drive and a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX video card.
A fully configured, all options in, maxed-out M15x tallies up to well over $5,000.00 - before taxes.
The price tag isn't the only that's heavy about the Alienware M15x; the laptop itself weighs 9 lbs. Certainly a heavyweight in more ways than one, but for hardcore gamers, the M15x is the most uncompromising yet portable piece of hardware that money can buy... at the moment.