Alienware, pre-Dell

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Woah is me, I passed up a $30 Alienware Area 51, the original forbearer of flagship gaming laptops that stood out for it's outrageous take on Alien Out of this World theme design, bucking the trend on what PCs should look like. The two models are essentially desktop replacement full laptop or notebook solutions, Work or Gaming could be done, the systems offered pre 2006 level Intel, for example in a definite beat back of AMD, in the chips war.

What I am getting to is Desktop Replacement in general means more able to replicated the duties of a left in place home PC, or left at work PC

Alienware offered the pre Core2Duo 006 crowd an AMD64 939 socket, as I understand it, capable of first mobile CPU dual core ever, and first 64 bit computing, but Intel finally stepped up their game overall.

So on Intel side from Alienware, you got a last gen 478 socket Pentium 4 with HyperThreading, once Core2 came along, and Core Duo, the HTT aforementioned was locked in the CPUs for whatever reason.

Dual HDDs, a graphics card rivaling Dell's own raved XPS M1710 at the time. Even two optical disc-drives, one slot bay option ... two Firewires, three or more noisey fans to cope, and a 4-pin in AC adapter that I believe was at least 150 watts likely.

 

Dell bought Alienware and soon XPS, in the age of Ultrabooks...2013, took on new status, lower on the totem