Unidentifed laptop sighting: Could this be the Alienware Allpowerful?
Fear the gaze of the Allpowerful...
(Credit: NotebookReview Forums via Engadget)Alienware's alien-alphabet-infused teaser site for the Allpowerful laptop has been counting down steadily, now at 15 days until the static-fringed menacing alien head reveals all there is to know in the world of ultrabeefy mobile gaming rigs. Or, it's a teaser for a new Crystal Skull movie.
Nevertheless, new intel has dropped in the forums at NotebookReview.com: a mysterious image from "mingocr83" features the contours of and is claimed to be the Allpowerful itself. Subsequent image-brightened posts seem to clearly reveal something else...
Just a keyboard?
(Credit: NotebookReview Forums via Engadget)...A glowing keyboard. We say "seem" because some forum posters claim the original image data contains no such hidden picture. Or maybe we're staring at a Core i7 17-incher right in the grill.
Are we looking at a product leak, viral marketing, fakejob, or simply the future of advertising? Underground screenshots with embedded data waiting to be unlocked...it's like the whole world is turning into an ARG.
How powerful, and how thick, will this meltingly hot fragtop be?
If you can uncover any extra secret messages unlockable through other image filters, post 'em along.
(Source: NotebookReview Forums via Engadget)
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If it's that big, it would have to be Core i7 with GTX280 SLI or 4870X2, 3 So-DIMM Slots and Dual or Triple Hard Drive bays.
- by thunder_2008 May 24, 2009 7:15 PM PDT
- I like everything about the design and look of the alienware m17, except for the fact that it uses an intel mobile processor.
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(4 Comments)Thus the lighted keyboard, fingerprint reader, media keys, sliders, etc. are all " useless " in terms of making the alienware laptops an investment.
I say this because of the ClevoD900F. Which is an investment as it uses a desktop cpu and can be changed as new cpus' are released. Mobile cpus' are not nearly as accessible or affordable as desktop cpus'.
Specially just look at the i7 line-up with it's coming i7 950 & 975 cpus'...see you can go with the 920 until your ready to upgrade into a 940 950 965 975...all of this as well as the 3-three hdd space you can upgrade into makes having a lighted keyboard or media keys seem stupid~!
Especially when the price of the Alienware is more than the Clevo D900F? The choice is kinda academic. If the alienware had desktop cpu board with it's keyboard, media keys etc then it might be worth it's higher price tag.