Alienware M17x

(4.0 out of 5)

It's the fastest, meanest-looking gaming notebook ever--if you can afford it.

When you call something "the most powerful laptop in the universe," you have a lot to live up to. And Dell's flagship gaming system, the Alienware M17x ($4,649 as configured), mostly lives up to those claims. This anodized aluminum beast is loaded with the fastest hardware you can put in a notebook today, including two of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 280M graphics cards and a 2.53-GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300 CPU. It's a semi-truck of a computer, and it'll shred the latest 3D titles like a diamond-toothed chainsaw through a zombie skull, but is it worth nearly five grand? Continue reading full review @ LAPTOP Magazine