Like all the gaming notebooks based on this Clevo chassis, the Alienware Area-51m 7700 does its job admirably. Performance has been spoiled slightly by the older nVidia graphics card employed in the review sample, but customers will benefit from the newer DDR3 version. Ultimately though, you can buy an almost identically specced machine from Rock, with a higher resolution screen for less. With the basic chassis it had to work with, even Alienware hasn’t been able to transform this large, ungainly notebook into something sleek, sexy and desirable. That said, I imagine that Alienware already has a super-cool replacement waiting in the wings and I can't wait to see it.Read full review
Overall
7/10
By Riyad Emeran
Reviewed 07 April 2005
Updated 05 February 2011