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    Alienware Prepping "Allpowerful" Laptop for Next Month/

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by MAG, May 12, 2009.

  1. WaR

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    I was bored, so...

    Here is an image (the only useful one I could capture) from the Breed 2 teaser. I know people here are imaginative so...

    I'll take the first shot. I think that water draining shows the back of the laptop with a red alienhead :eek:

    [​IMG]

    Your turn! :D
     
  2. HaloGod2007

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    i hope its not the laptop, look plain and ugly to me lol...maybe this new one is waterproof? lmao jk
     
  3. WaR

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    What do you mean? That's the liquid cooling right there. It will come with that giant bucket.
     
  4. HaloGod2007

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    hahahahahaha nice, i wouldnt be surprised....thats AW for you....u guys have many heat issues?...well here...put ur bathing suit on and play
     
  5. WaR

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    yeah... they'll be like, "yeah, we read what that dude halogod did with the modding... now mod this s**t"
     
  6. Plisken

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    The water looks like it starting to boil 0_0 that cant be to good. Foreshadowing!? The super hot "allpowerful" laptop! when we say hot! we mean HOT!
     
  7. Phinagle

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    Gave it the same treatment as the wallpaper and I can't tell if that's a laptop or some kind of hat in the fish tank.

    [​IMG]
     
  8. Rob41

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    Adjusting levels on this one doesn't reveal any hidden details.

    Looks like a lid of a laptop though.
     
  9. The_Moo™

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    looks like a m17x
     
  10. Rob41

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    Looks like a new breed.
     
  11. dondadah88

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    looks like a floating table.
     
  12. whizzo

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    that's obviously the lid of the new laptop.
     
  13. MAG

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    looks like a lid :p
     
  14. Scytus

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    ............Bacon
     
  15. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    that new lid is flattttt i changed the colors and brightness and it looks like either a riply or flatttt
     
  16. Shuya

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    I will be getting it, don't you worry. =p 21st on June 11th and this is a graduation present too, so woooo. =p
     
  17. whizzo

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    i think the new laptop will feature the Ripley styling too. seeing how the front of the machine reflects the "gills" found on the Predator 2 desktop case, the rest of the notebook should reflect the smooth styling of the aforementioned case as well.
     
  18. Mandrake

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    I would guess it would be an option to get either one of them.
     
  19. Phinagle

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    Could also be a cape and the fish tank is actually a washing machine..

    Here's a close up:
    [​IMG]

    There are two Alienheads in the pic but can't know for sure if the large one is a reflection on the glass of the smaller one or vice versa.
     
  20. laststop311

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    The larger one does not look like it's part of the laptop imo.
     
  21. WaR

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    No reflection. I take it you guys are just staring at the picture and not watching the actual video... Somebody should watch it. Maybe someone will find something.
     
  22. Rob41

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    I see what appears to be a "skullcap" below the cloth so maybe they will offer both styles. Or more than one new notebook.
     
  23. Phinagle

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    The only way you'd get anything out of that film is if you put each frame through the brightness/contrast ringer.
     
  24. Plisken

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    Its most likly just 1 notebook being released. if you go to

    http://www.alienware.com/products/notebook-computers.aspx

    You see they re-worked the site a little and where they have the pc gaming 2009 picture. 1 new notebook would fit perfectly there. It would be in proportion to the other 2 notebooks next to it. Hell for all we know the Picture of the laptop could be under that picture right now!
     
  25. Rob41

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    Nah,

    I just watched the video a couple times and pressed pause. No ringer here.
     
  26. Phinagle

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    Yeah I've done the same and don't know what I'm looking at.

    Honestly I think most, if not all, of that vid is about a desktop case and that they might be going more small form factor. Which would be pretty cool....a water-cooled SFF destkop.
     
  27. Rob41

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    Cool. looks like to me they are digging their heels in with the whole "alien look"
    which I'm happy about. I think it's one of the things that differentiates Alienware from the rest of the herd. :D
     
  28. Krane

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    Very real perhaps, but not very practical. Even for a boutique product like AW, once you reach much past 4 grand you're not talking any dramatic improvement in computing capability. In other words, other than bragging rights, those extra 2 grand won't get you a whole lot. Still, I understand that to some hardcore gamers (with deep pockets) that wouldn't matter much. So if you're one of those, then by all means go for the ultimate. But for members of the working class like myself who need this computer for practical application, I stop paying once the cost outweigh the benefits.
     
  29. AlaskanGeek

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    Hi, I posted this in the XPS 1730 owner's forum, because I was going to be one, but I thought you guys over here might be interested in this info.
    Nothing earth shattering but.....


    "Ok, dudes, no big news here, but I thought this was interesting.

    So, I have been recieving phone calls from Dell sales reps about making another laptop purchase, since Dell cancelled mine.
    (Man they are pushy about the Studio XPS 16!!!!! Lay off Dell dudes!)

    So I got a phone call from another Dell rep today and it will be the last. But he said something interesting.

    He was working hard to re-instate my previous order, and came up with the same answer...x9000 is dead. No love from Intel. Dell can't order it anymore. (I was not suprised since I hear the same story from 4 other reps, but I thought I'd let this guy try....)

    Anyways, he was all apologetic and that, and he said that he spoke to his marketing department and they told him that the XPS 1730 was going to be replaced with a new up coming Alienware laptop that was going to be released in less than two weeks.

    BUT here is the good part!!!!!!

    He also said that the new Alienware laptop will qualify for Dell's EPP plan! So he told me he would follow up in 2 weeks and see if I wanted to replace my current order with a config of that laptop.

    Now I know we all know about the Allpowerful.com site and news about a new Alienware laptop is not new.

    But I thought this information shed some more light on what Dell is doing with the 1730, and the the new 'All powerful' laptop is it replacement.
    And that you can get the 7% EPP and other EPP offers with this new, forth comming lappy.

    AW is know for it's high prices and pre-dated hardware, so I hope Dell has put an end to that with the new release......will know in a couple weeks."
     
  30. Phinagle

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    We'll know in 70 days 14+hours.
     
  31. whizzo

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    more like 07 days and 14 hours, but yeah.
     
  32. laststop311

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    OH boy you are never gonna hear the end from dell until they get your money.
     
  33. AlaskanGeek

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    Yeah, but now I am glad this happened, cause looking back, the hardware of the 1730 is dated.

    So now I am waiting for the new AW laptop to see what it is like. (Plus I like that it qualifies for 7% off, anything helps with AW prices!!!)

    And a Sager. Either 9280 or their up coming SLI rig.

    So..... waiting is the hardest part and I hate it!
     
  34. v_c

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    Yeah, that is the information I have also. I am also told that I will be able to use Dell 10% off vouchers on the new Alienware machines. This is good news for me (in my region) because there is a 100% constant stream of Dell vouchers at the moment (as soon as one expires they put out another one straight away), but I have never, ever seen an Alienware one.
     
  35. AlaskanGeek

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    Where's the hookup for these 10% vouchers....

    EPP and 10%, awesome!!!

    (Probably going to need it...LOL!)
     
  36. Shuya

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    Indeed, hook us up guys!
     
  37. italian.madness

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    The new Alienware is going to have the i7 CPU.
    right?
     
  38. nerever_kuhn

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    no. [ 10 char ]
     
  39. Rob41

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    The consensus that I've seen most here is that the i7 will not be offered and is largely unnecessary for gaming since the bottle neck is usually the GPU.

    However, with that said, the truth is we just don't know. A lot of educated guesses are being made but nothing official about the spec's has been released.

    We'll know for sure in a little more than 6 days. :D
     
  40. Quicklite

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    [​IMG]

    ...it even shows up on Dell UK's site...

    Are we sure its a laptop?
     
  41. v_c

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    Yeah, that banner is on the Dell UK site, but without the Core i7 logo you have photoshopped into it :rolleyes:
     
  42. italian.madness

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  43. Quicklite

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    You mean the i7 logo that I photoshopped into Dell UK's server? :p ya...

    http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen


    So there are three or more outcomes:


    1. 2nd of June is when NDA finishes on i7 mobile, allpowerful laptop will be announced then, and could be shipped much later in Q3/4.

    2. AW decided to pull their own Clevo 9280 with desktop i7 chips, only cooler and more expensive.

    3. The other possible case is that allpowerful is a desktop all-along.
     
  44. v_c

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    There is no i7 logo...this is a direct screengrab from that page:
    [​IMG]
     
  45. Quicklite

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    go onto UK site through google... It shows up on mine.
     
  46. The_Moo™

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    then take a screen shot ? duhhhh

    not there and i can prove i went through google onto the UK site

    m17x is still there though
     
  47. Shuya

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    It better be a laptop of Sneaky better pay the admins a lot more than me 'cos I'll be IP hunting him down!
     
  48. AlaskanGeek

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    Yeah, no logo.

    But why can't it be both a laptop and a desktop. Probably will be both.
     
  49. Azuricate

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    5-10% vouchers from Dell will make a difference in the end, afterall even 5% out of 3000 is 150 extra to spend on upgrades or make it more affordable overall.
    Will be interesting to see what they can pull off in the all powerful
     
  50. Quicklite

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    look at the last page...

    italian.madness and I both saw it. It could be a Euro only, use a UK proxy or something...
     
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