Alienware Desktop Reviews

"Enjoy easy, take-anywhere access to all your favorite MP3/WMA songs and Audible files with the Alienware CE-IV...The CE-IV allows you to encounter a remarkably enhanced level of portable audio...The CE-IV's revolutionary SRS WOW HD technology delivers a treble control that allows listeners to experience cleaner and crisper high-frequency sounds...In addition to ensuring that you can download songs from the top music download sites with Digital Rights Management technology, the CE-IV supplies an SD/MMC memory expansion slot so you can pack even more music into your player..." read more »

"Cost-effective for a $6,500 PC; more storage than we've ever seen....Clunky Alienware case; overclocking and other features reserved for a still higher-end Alienware system;...Alienware pitched us this $6,473 Area-51 X58 desktop as one of the first PCs it has shipped that truly takes advantage of the buying muscle afforded by its parent company, Dell...Again, the Area-51 X58 is no question a member of the upper echelon of gaming PCs...The Area-51 ALX X58 has..." read more »

"By offering solid desktop computers at a good price, Alienware has been branching out in recent months...Their entry-level 3300 series starts out cheap, yet still features excellent systems for small and medium businesses...The default graphics on the Alienware 3300 is integrated Intel graphics...There isn't a monitor included with the computer at the starting price, although Alienware offers some good deals on displays to pair with your 3300 desktop..." read more »

"Alienware's Area 51 class of gaming PCs is usually huge monsters of performance...Starting around a grand--a rarity for gaming system manufacturers--you'll be pleased with the baseline components on the 5300...The numbers are good for most applications, but gamers might want a full-fledged Pentium 4 or Athlon processor...While it's good 400MHz low-latency RAM, it's not enough for the average gamer..." read more »

"This system seems built for the mobile creative professional who wants to create content and show that content...Another nice feature with the MJ 5500 is InstantON, powered by InterVideo...On the Photoshop test, which involves applying a Guassian blur with a radius of 6.3 on a 9.51MB image, the MJ 5500 completed the task in 44.17 seconds...This is a boon for those times when you need to work in a "lite" mode, which helps to ease up on the battery depletion, and those times when you need maximum graphics power..." read more »

"The Aurora 5500 is no different, thanks mainly to its use of the latest Nvidia graphics card – the Geforce 7800 GTX...In comparison to its high-end graphics card, the Aurora 5500 uses a fairly average CPU...The Aurora 5500’s performance is less impressive when running more mundane applications...This also promotes good airflow, which helps the reliability of the PC..." read more »

"Well, the Aurora 7500 SLI fulfils all these expectations in an over-the-top manner that is little short of outrageous...In the Aurora 7500 there are two Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX graphics cards linked by a small PCB connector, and the motherboard (the current favoured one is the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe) has to include an Nforce4 SLI chipset..." read more »