Alienware Aurora m9700 review

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With the advent of NVIDIA's SLI technology in 2004, gaming performance on the desktop was dramatically increased which allowed users to run games at higher resolutions with more image quality enhancements. Unfortunately for mobile users, the notebook platform was left behind with no immediate solution made available beyond a single flagship GPU. Fast forward two years and we find ourselves looking at a brand new mobile platform that features NVIDIA's proven nForce4 SLI chipset as well as two discrete graphics cards. The Alienware Aurora m9700 is the world's first 17" SLI capable notebook to hit the market and it promises to provide unrivaled levels of performance in the latest and greatest games.

Processor

• AMD Turion64 ML-44 processor
  (2.4GHz)
  

Chipset

• NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
  

Memory

• Two SODIMM sockets
  2x1GB DDR 400 Unbuffered Non-ECC memory
  Supports maximum memory capacity up to 2GB
  

Graphics

• Dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 256MB (MXM)
  

ATA

• 2 x SATA/66
  Dual 100GB Hitachi 7200rpm SATA HDD
  8x Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW
  

Communications

• 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
  Realtek 802.11b/geWireless LAN
  56K v.90 Fax/modem
  

Display

• 17" WUXGA TFT LCD (native 1920 x 1200)
  

Audio

• Stereo speakers with integrated subwoofer
  Intel High-Definition Audio
  

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