Not a best selling laptop, but a powerful niche laptop for gamers or professionals, the Alienware Area-51 m9750

Today I will not write about any best selling laptop on Amazon or another online store. Instead I will say something about a niche laptop, about Alienware Area-51 m9750. When you first lay your eyes over its technical specifications you will be impressed by its capabilities and promises for future performance. When ordering customers will enjoy a large array of options to customize this portable machine. You can make a powerful gamming rig or a reliable professional editing tool out of it. You can even opt for a SLI dual graphics cards solution for better performance in games, or for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M GDDR3 graphic card for advanced 3D creative professionals. Other interesting option is the 7200 rpm hard drive or the solid state drive. Below I will present you the entire array of options for this powerful laptop. In a latter post I will be back with conclusions from user comments and reviews screening.
Operating Systems
Windows® XP Media Center
Windows® XP Professional
Windows Vista® Home Premium
Windows Vista® Ultimate
Processors, Chipset & Memory
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors (4MB Cache, 667MHz FSB)
Intel 945PM + ICH7M-DH Chipset
Up to 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
2 dedicated SO-DIMM slots for Dual Channel DDR2 Memory
Graphics & Video
NVIDIA GeForce SeriesHigh performance for the game and entertainment enthusiast
Single Graphics Cards
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT GDDR3 – DirectX 10 Enabled
Dual Graphics Cards
Dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT GDDR3 - DirectX 10 enabled with NVIDIA® SLI™ technology
NVIDIA Quadro FX SeriesPowerful mobile solution for the advanced 3D creative professional
Single Graphics Card
512MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M GDDR3 – Higher level of performance and ultra-realistic effects for OpenGL
Storage
Easily-removable Slot Loading Hard Drives
Single Hard Drive
5400 RPM - Up to 320GB SATA with NCQ
7200 RPM - Up to 200GB SATA with NCQ
Solid State - Up to 64GB SATA
Dual Hard Drives in RAID 0
5400 RPM - Up to 640GB (2 x 320GB)
7200 RPM - Up to 400GB (2 x 200GB)
Solid State - Up to 128GB (2 x 64GB)
Optical Drives
8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW
8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW w/ LightScribe Technology
Dual Layer Blu-Ray/DVD±R/W/CD-RW Burner
Networking
Wireless Connectivity
Internal Intel PRO Wireless 3945 a/b/g Mini-Card
Internal Intel PRO Wireless 4965 b/g/n Mini-Card
Integrated Bluetooth 2.0
Wired Connectivity
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45
Integrated 56K V.92 modem RJ-11
Audio
7.1 Digital High-Definition Audio
Two Speakers with SubWoofer
Connectivity
1 headphone jack
1 microphone jack
1 Front Speakers jack
1 Surround Speakers jack
1 Center Speaker jack
1 TOSlink Optical Audio
Peripheral Connections
4 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
Express Card Slot /54mm
IEEE 1394a (4-pin) port
4-in-1 Memory Card Reader (SD / MS / MSPRO / MMC)
LCD Panel
17” Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200 with Clearview
17” Wide Screen WXGA+ 1440 x 900
Keyboard & Touchpad
Full Size Keyboard with Separate Numeric Keypad
Full Size Touchpad with Scroll Functionality
Instant Access Buttons include:
Internet
E-mail
Windows Media Player
Power DVD 7
Windows Media Center*
Play/Pause
Skip Forward
Skip Backward

Considering the amount of performance the Area-51 m9750 pumps out, a light chassis that can manage thermals efficiently and has plenty of strength to protect everything inside is essential. Steel or plastic simply won’t cut it. That’s why the Area-51 m9750 features magnesium alloy, which is 75% lighter than steel and provides better rigidity than plastic to deliver the optimum solution. Alienware’s innovative material, Stealth Black, proves to be scratch and fingerprint resistant, scratches that occur from day to day use and, even though the style leaves quite an impression, your fingerprints never will. And if you do manage to get fingerprints on the material, they easily wipe off.