Alienware’s Aurora m9700 SLI Power Game Notebook

Alienware is probably the most respected high end notebook manufacturer. And, as you’ll see in future articles on the company’s mobile computing line, it can now claim bragging rights for some very, very good lower end notebooks as well. The very cool Aurora m9700 is definitely high end. It’s big, heavy and a superbly powerful game player’s machine.

Alienware definitely knows how to make high powered graphics oriented notebooks. The SLI based Aurora m9700 did very well on our performance tests. On 3DMark05 it turned in scores as high as 10,000 3DMarks at 1024×768 and 8,400 3DMarks at 1600×1200. It also did well on our gaming tests and its hardware scored impressively on PCMark05. Though the m9700’s display wasn’t the best we’ve tested, it delivered good brightness and very good contrast. Add to this the notebook’s cool Alienware styling and you’ve at least got to consider buying one if you need a solidly performing mobile gaming or graphics computer.

It’s not easy to compare the performance of graphically oriented notebook computers, because it’s usually impossible to hold the components in each constant. This is much easier with desktop machines where you can usually just slip each graphics card or cards you want to test into the same computer with the same monitor. So, read the related articles below with care. Interpret graphics performance tests while keeping in mind the CPU, graphics processor(s), amount and speed of memory, display resolutions and disk drives in place when each test was conducted.

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