TGX ‘09: Two Very Awesome Things About The Alienware M17x

True, the latest Alienware power gaming laptop is about as light as fifteen bricks stacked onto your lap and cost a few vital body parts, but you can’t beat the insides of the machine. Before I dish out the specs, let me point out two things that makes this a must-buy for me if I weren’t so goddamn broke:

1) The colors of the L.E.D backlight of the mini-beast can be customized. As shown below, I made an esoteric ensemble of bright yellow, fuchsia, green, and light blue because monocolor lighting is so passe. There’s a bunchload of options to customize the rest of the laptop dressings, but nothing else beats the fact that you can have your keyboard light up like a rainbow-esque X’mas tree.

2) The real estate where the touchpad is is friggin’ huge. At first, it would seem that it adds unnecessary weight to the already-heavy laptop, but it gives room for your wrists to rest while working on any word-processor related tasks. The blood circulation on my wrists is screwed up thanks to the tiny dashbord on my Inspiron 1420, thus the size of the M17x would probably solve that problem.

Enough talk, have at you with these specs!

- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9550 (2.66GHz)

- 4GB DDR-3 SDRAM

- 1 Terrabyte (divided into two 500GB drives) 7200RPM SATA RAID 0

- 17.0 Beyond HD WUXGA CCFL Display with Truelife (which has nothing to do with that vampire show on HBO)

- Single 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

- Costs between S$3,999 (with the above specs) and S$4,999 (with the maximum amount of customization done)