I'm thinking about buying an Alienware Area 51 m9750 laptop with the following specs. Can anyone tell me if these specs are any good? Will it be able to handle games etc. I don't know much about computers so i would really appreciate a little advice.

Specs

CPU: Intel Core 2 T7200 @ 2GHz /core
RAM: 2048MB PC5300
Max Supported RAM: 4GB
HDD (rpm): 120GB (7200)
GPU: 1x nVidia 7950GTX 512mb
Optical: DVD +/- RW with Lightscribe Tech
I/O: 4x USB, 1x DVI, 1x Analogue, Firewire, S-Video,
Networking: WiFi + Ethernet
Op Sys: Windows Vista Home Premium x86 + Product Key
Display: 17inches @ 1400 x 900
Battery: 1x 6-Cell Li+
Other: WebCam, HD Audio

That would handle any game i know of easily. Warhammer online and world of warcraft would easily run for example. I would imagine it would cope with some photo editing quite well also. Adding more RAM would improve performance in my opinion.

Cheers for that. Would others agree. Please help as i know sod all. I've been offered it for £400.

It's not a new graphics card, it'll probably run most things, but you're going to have to turn the details down to low and in a year it might struggle all together.

For the price though, it's not bad. If you want a gaming laptop you really need to put a grand to one side.

It's not a new graphics card, it'll probably run most things, but you're going to have to turn the details down to low



My little 128MB GeForce 6200 is chugging along with a stable 31 FPS and all settings (apart from shaders), set to medium at the minute on World of Warcraft. I would have thought a 512MB card is gonna run it a lot better than that :)

Wow is about 3 years old now isn't it?

Try running Crysis and see where you get.

Wow, that laptop is quite low spec, I hope your buying this second hand.... else alienware are far behind the times now.

Wow is about 3 years old now isn't it?

Try running Crysis and see where you get.

More like 4 and a half years old :hihi:

Wow, that laptop is quite low spec

Well, the general specs aren't great it's true, cirtainly wouldn't want any less ram (especially with vista!!)... But for the price tag it's reasonable considering a lot of laptops in that price bracket don't even have a dedicated GPU.

Don't you agree?

I don't know what the price is? its nowhere on the post... ;)

I don't know what the price is? its nowhere on the post... ;)

Erm...

I've been offered it for £400.

Mods today eh? :hihi:

It's OK but nothing special for 400quid.

yeah yeah, so I missed the price...

not bad for £400 I suppose, thats probably about the absolute top end i'd pay for it...

Thats the problem with alienware, you pay more for the name than the components, it will struggle to play most modern games, but still not bad.

If £400 is as much as you can afford to spend and you want a laptop then go for it. If you can afford an extra couple of hundred you can get something brand new with an 88xx series graphics card which will last much longer.

:)