Orders taken for Alienware 19-inch-SLI notebooks

ALIENWARE SAYS it is ready with its new Aurora m9700 and Aurora mALX notebooks, both featuring AMD Turion 64 CPUs.

The cool thing about these notebooks is that both of them have SLI inside. Or maybe we should say, that's the warm thing about these heavy machines.

We wanted to configure and to see the price of the machines but to our horror we figured out that the shipping date is not earlier than late July or early August for Aurora mALX. Things were worse yesterday, as it projected that you will get your machine at the end of the September or early October.

Both notebooks, if you can call them notebooks, as they are big and massive have impressive specs under the hood. The Aurora m9700 has a 17-inch display capable of 1920 x 1200 resolution, comes with Turion 64 CPU that works from 1.6 to 2.4GHz and its branded AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML44 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache. You can plug up to 2GB memory and of course you can use Dual 256MB Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled.

We chose a machine with 2.2GHz CPU and 1GB memory and figured out that it would cost us a whooping £2,344.12, with VAT but excluding delivery.

You can not configure many things on the mighty Aurora mALX as it comes with 2.4GHz Turion CPU and a 19-inch display, but you can pick the memory size and the hard drive. The machine comes with an SLI chipset and two cards included but will cost a whopping £2,950.42 including VAT but excluding shipping costs. It will ship on the 7th of August if you order now.

So, Nvidia launched Notebook SLI at Cebit and gets the availability a few months later. Paper launch, anyone? µ

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Aurora mALX desktop replacement
Aurora m9700 system