Similarites between the M9750 and OCZ's new "whitebook"?

Others have probably noticed this and I wasn't sure where to post it, but it made me chuckle of how much these laptops share in common. I wonder whether they are produced by the same OEM Alienware used for their old chassis?

Anyway, the new OCZ Whitebook:



The older Alienware M9750:

 

Yup they look to be exactly the same. But when you look real closely it almost looks like the OCZ picture is a photochop job where they just removed the alienware logo. Look at where the logo was, it looks patched up with photoshop.

 

it looks to be another version of the Arima chassis that Alienware re-branded years back.

 

Thats the one for some reason I had Aria in my head which is some UK reseller.

They do look very similar, as far as I can tell all that's changed is they've added what looks to be like a finger print reader, changed the layout of the keyboard a bit and the speaker grills look a bit different too. It also has a backlit keyboard but I'm not sure, did the m9750 come with one?

 

EDIT: its a Arima W840 DI

Link here:
http://www.flextronics.com/arima/

 

If you blow up the OCZ picture you can actually see how they used a brush in Photoshop to wipe the Alienware logo.

Anyways, where can I buy one?

 

Yep it's Arima. Specs look good too.

http://www.flextronics.com/arima/pim/Pp174-1.jpg

Platform Intel Montevina
Panel 17.1" WXGA+ (1440 x 900)
17.1" WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
CPU Intel Penryn DC XE
& Penryn QC XE
FSB 1067 MHz
CPU TDP 55W
Chipset Intel Cantiga PM45+ICH9M-Enhanced
Memory DDR3 - 1067 MHz
GPU Dual ATI M88 XT MXM card (Crossfire)
VRAM 512 MB / MXM Card
ODD SATA, DVD+R,
SuperMulti, Blu-ray
HDD Dual 2.5", SATA,
120-500G, 7200 rpm
LAN 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps
WLAN Wifi 802.11 a+g+n(MIMO)
Bluetooth USB, BT 2.1 + EDR
WebCam 2.0M
I/O USB 2.0 x 3
VGA x 1
HDMI x 1
e-SATA x 1
7 in 1 Card Reader x 1
Express Slot x 1
IEEE 1394 x 1
RJ45 x 1
SPDIF Output x 1
Mic x 1
Headphone x 1
DC-in x 1
TV x 1 (DVB-T / Analog)
Kensington x 1
Fingerprint x 1
Finish Painting
OS Microsoft Vista Home Premium
Keyboard Backlight Keyboard
Audio HD Audio Codec
Battery Pack 12 Cells Battery,
1hr w / Crossfire
Adopter 220 / 230 watts,
DC 19V output,
AC100-240V input
Dimension 395.9 x 299.45 x 42.56 mm
Weight 3.5kg without Battery

 

Main Difference:

W840 --> Intel chipset & Crossfire

W830 --> Nvidia Chipset & SLI

 

Hi guys,

How is the QUALITY of "Flextronics" laptops!?!? Let say compare to Compal, MSI and Clevo?

Thanks,

G!

 

i'm also very interested in the quality of the flextronics w840 di.
thanks in advance.

 

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