Vintage Alienware Computers

This ain't old, i still use it as my main desktop . Best case ever made after the Aurora Predator R2.

 

I agree Katalin. If I did not travel so much, I would have one of those to compliment the M18x. My neighbor--also a "mature gamer" like us-- --has one (with current specs) and it is truly a spectacular machine in terms of performance and appearance. I think this case design annihilates anything that came before it.

 

Of course it's not old, it's still functional and super up-gradable ...we wanted to include it in this campaign because it's out of the market...and so beautiful

Today's model is here!!!

Alienware Star Wars Edition



Which one is your side? there are no cookies on this one haha

 

and today, 256MB GDDR3 sounds so tiny

 

Awesome!!!!

 

Def the one on the left :-D

Tapatalk 2

 

I remember my first upgrade was to a 256MB graphics card. I thought I was the coolest kid in town when I had that...

 

I remember finally getting a 100 GB hard drive. I thought I would never run out of space lol.
Would be like a 3 terabyte hard drive today.


I wonder if in another 10 years computers will be using over 10 terabyte drives normally...

gonna download a car.

 

The automotive industry has already been messed up beyond belief, and the high-performance PC enthusiasts will be up next for the guillotine. You know our high-powered GPUs and Extreme Processors are emitting cancer-causing radiation and destroying the ozone layer, right?

If the enviro-nazis have their way we will all be using power-sipping smart phones and cloud storage, with nothing but SD cards for local data.

 

We're already being killed, look at all this movement to lower performance ultrabooks, tablets and this junk about the cloud and cloud gaming.

Why do I have to let someone else's system do my work when I can have my own monster do it myself?

 

We will lucky to have SD card slots on most devices. It could turn to un-removable flash storage and transferring over a wi-fi connection. At least from what I'm starting to see.

 

Which is rather useless.

 

This is what got me interested in AW, I would have had one of these in Highschool if it hadnt been so far out of my price range.

 

Hello Everyone! check out the model I have for you today:

Welcome to the dark side:




And we would also like to say: Thank you! thanks to all of you who have been interested in our Alienware Vintage Campaign, stay tuned.

 

Don't tell that to the android community.

They can come in handy when doing mods.

 

The predators had their doors swing-open, problem with this is that if you don't pay attention to it. Sometimes you walk right into it and break the hinge.

I have a predator 2 but got it "barebones" on ebay a few years back. Had to buy a new CPU and graphics card.

 

If you meant the fact that they had MicroSD slots, I definitely do not mean that those were useless.

I was referring to:
"It could turn to un-removable flash storage and transferring over a wi-fi connection. At least from what I'm starting to see."
This is the rather irritatingly pointless thing to me.

I'm an Android user myself with a 32GB MicroSD, so ... meh. I can't tolerate streaming content constantly. I always figured the point of having a mobile phone was not to be limited to places for my content.

 

We are back! and we have some laptops we want to show you...

Check out the Alienware Sentia m3200



And, the Alienware Sentia 3450




Enjoy

 

The old "skull cap" design brings back some great memories of the old systems.

I like the sleek design of the newer systems better, but nostalgia is always cool.

What would be kind of sweet is to have some custom notebook sleeves for current models that have the skull cap appearance, available in the legacy m9700 and m3450 colors. If the pricing is decent, I'd love to have a cobalt blue or bright green sleeve that looks like that as an accessory for my M18x.

I just submitted that at Idea Storm. http://www.ideastorm.com/idea2ReadIdea?Id=087700000008kBLAAY&v=1346934578834

Also see this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/687041-neat-idea-alienware-skull-cap-sleeve.html

 

That's a great idea Mr. Fox, I'd definitely buy one of those for myself...

 

Aren't there much older notebooks than the skullcaps?

 

Thanks for posting the idea Mr. Fox and for linking back to this thread, I hadn't seen it before.

 

Thanks, Cy. Glad you stopped in to comment.

 

I got a name: Alienware Bluebook , Pentium III
But we are trying to get some more details; most of the info was on magazines and that's the problem.

 

As you can see, we extended the campaign a little bit, we are going to continue until run our to laptops to post Thank you very much for all the support.

Today's model:

Aurora m9700

 

I love that color! Because it has been so long ago it now seems so odd to see an AMD CPU in a gaming laptop, and especially with an NVIDIA GPU. But, that was back in the day before AMD gobbled up ATI and AMD was giving Intel a run for the money on CPU performance at that point in time.

 

I miss 1920x1200p...

 

I just saw one on ebay in good condition for $850 ))) It looked good, though it has been some time since it was built...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRA-RARE-...46823319?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item20cb1ff797

 

Check out today's model:

Alienware Aurora mALX (Titan)

Another one with AMD processor and Nvidia Graphics

 

Ah, the days when notebooks were fat, but had more ports than the average low-end PC today...

 

Ahhh that was my first Alienware. that M9700 was one hell of a decent rig. I got it right around the time Crysis 1 came out. It couldnt run it then either That thing will hold a place in my heart.

A fire hit my house about 2 years ago and this baby was inside of it (It was going on 3 years old) and the insurance company scrapped it. But since it was an alienware and a decent one at that, they gave me full credit to buy a brand new Alienware. Which is what Im typing on right now!

I loved that computer but Alienware has come a LONG way since then. Especially with the case. It may weigh 25 freaking pounds but its one hell of a solid piece. Which is WAY more than I could say about the M9700. I do miss that green though. It really caught people's attention.

 

For today:

The very first Nvidia SLI Laptop

Aurora M9700

 

SEE dELL NEED AN ADD ON BACK PLATE FOR THE M18X SCREENS THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS.. AND THESE COLORS WOULD BE AWESOME! Id buy a skull cap add on cover for my screen lol..

 

All these older ones were actually built on Clevo platforms, weren't they?　But with a custom lid.



I still wish we had a flexible, powerful fifteen inch that didn't weigh 4kg though...

 

Yes, Clevo was one of Alienware's ODMs in the past.

 

Yes, that is very true. There are not that many ODMs out there. Many laptops brandishing different labels are made by the hand full of companies globally. Laptops are almost always built by an ODM for an OEM. With the exception of the generic variations of Clevo systems offered through boutique resellers under different labels, laptops are generally unique and built to an OEMs specificiations. So, chassis design, warranty and service, software bundles and unique hardware features become very important elements in one brand distinguishing itself from its competitors even though the core components may be identical. This is why I am a Dell/Alienware fan, as they do a superior job of distinguishing their brand in those ways.

 

Today's model:

Alienware Skullcap M15x

 

Natalia, i'm afraid that needs to be fixed.

Pictured you have a area-51 m15x while the specs are the ones of the 'All Powerful M15x'. The former was available in both Skullcap and Ripley designs with Core2 CPUs, while the latter was only available with the Ripley design, core i5/i7 CPUs with two types of screens, WideHD (1980x900) and WideFHD (1980x1080).

 

Uh oh! Someone dun goofed
I've always liked the Area-51 m15x design, too bad it only came in that plastic-y looking silver.

 

I really liked the look of that model at the time. Was pretty keen on importing one with a P8600 and 8800M GT at the time...

 

Uhh... Wasn't that the model that had case melting issues? Anyway, it's funny to see Natalie posting newer and newer tech so often. Given this rate, we'd probably venture into Alienware's trade secrets and future prototype designs (hopefully).

 

We can always hope. Love the lineup on systems here. Would LOVE to get my hands on the Hanger 18 even in an older condition. I feel it would compliment my lineup of systems quite nicely.

 

Not sure if you saw my restoration thread of one I did

Alienware hangar 18 hd restoration

I am now saving up some money so I can make it much much more powerfull and double the hdd capacity.

 

didn't the hangar have issues with its blue ray player? I also remember it was like 3 grand when it was new...

 

Yeah, the bluray was like a 1200$ option

But, since I updated my system with a new motherboard, I can just use a slimline sata player. I have the dvd from my x51 in there right now. The old one was a IDE player.

The price was very high for the hangar, a little too high considering it was just a rebadged msi media live DIVA.

 

Great thread saw a lot a alienwares I didn't knew the existence of eheh also I didn't know alienware had a bumbox .
But I have a question is alienware doing this thread so they can gather a litle more of ideas to a new design of a new alien??? .

 

Hello hello everyone! Check out the Superman Edition Alienware laptop:

 

Hmm... I missed seeing that limited edition model when it came out. Wow, only 350 were available? Wonder if anyone still has one or knows someone that does?

That's a very cool-looking blue color.

 

lol now thats vintage !

 

Just looking at these marvelous systems leaves my jaw hanging. Need to pick em up!