Alienware bumps its m9700 with colors and some mightySLI juice

Sure, SLI laptops are a dime a dozen these days, but Alienware's Aurora m9700 is one of the few 17-inch SLI lappies around, and it just got a severe performance boost in the form of dual nVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS graphics cards with 512MB of memory apiece. In celebration of the new juicy spec, Alienware is throwing down two new colors: Conspiracy Blue and Cyborg Green, for $100 extra. It doesn't look like many other specs have budged, the processors still top out at a 2.4GHz AMD Turion 64 processor, and there are options for MIMO networking and a TV tuner, along with the standard Bluetooth and gigabit Ethernet. Prices start at $1700, and the dual 512MB graphics will bump that price up to $2300. Everything should be shipping by the 11th.

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[Samuel McConnell @ Sep 6th 2006 7:44PM]

It's too bad those laptops are ugly as sin.

[ShuadChaun @ Sep 6th 2006 8:24PM]

These colors are NEW? These have been available on AlienWare laptops since they began manufacturing. For that matter there are colors that have disappeared, like the Martian Red, what happened to those?

[Scabies @ Sep 6th 2006 9:21PM]

Did I read that right? I thought the 7900 GS weighed in at 256mb apiece...
Nice laptop, if I'm mistaken. Shoot, nice anyways.

[Alex @ Sep 6th 2006 11:01PM]

Too bad Clevos blow.

But holy hell... 1GB of video memory.

[haiuko @ Sep 7th 2006 1:15AM]

for 1 gig of GPU memory that is a pretty considerable laptop price

[CK @ Sep 7th 2006 3:28AM]

Alex: True. The last Alienware^H^H^HClevo I bought was the worst laptop ever, by a considerable margin. The only thing it had going for it was speed.

Component noise, heat, weight, instability, 45 minute battery life, and the worst after-sales service I've ever experienced all added up to a steaming pile of excrement.

Save your money and buy something good.

[Din @ Sep 7th 2006 4:28AM]

That laptop is really as blue as a conspiracy!

[DFISHERATT @ Sep 7th 2006 1:39PM]

too bad Alienware can't seem to get their boxes out the door on time. 3 friends ordered, 3 friends cancelled. Seems delivery times are not all that important.

[nova silverpill @ Sep 7th 2006 3:58PM]

Wow, I can't wait to open this up at the corner wi-fi cafe and feel like a total idiot.

[Z @ Sep 9th 2006 6:03PM]

Alienware also doesn't integrate BT into their laptops. You still have to rely on a stupid external USB key to get BT.

So while every other company integrates it into their laptops and every other portable device, Alienware is playing catch up but not even knowing they need to. Dummies.

[asdfji @ Sep 13th 2006 8:25PM]

hey, this is a nice computer, almost all of the alienwares are really good but unfortunately this is way out of my price range, still a great computer, they do have a notebook that is still amazing graphics card and a huge dual processor for like 870.00

[steve @ Sep 20th 2006 11:41AM]

Actually, this particular model is not clevo. Its built by a company called Arima.