Alienware Aurora m9700

First, I'd like to thank the following folks at AW:

Assembler Initials: RR

Tester Initials: AI

You made an OUTSTANDING product and I'm an EXTREMELY
satisfied customer.

Now...to the short and sweet review.

I ordered my lappy on 4 Oct and it shipped on 16 Oct, reaching
my home in Los Angeles on Saturday, 21 October 2006 @ 1145am.
I've had it for almost a week and all I have to say is this
thing ROCKS!!!!!!! Pics can be found HERE.

What I got:

Conspiracy Blue
Aurora m9700
AMD Turion™64 Mobile ML44 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
Genuine Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2
17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology
2GB Dual Channel DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2 x 1024MB
60GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 5,400 RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache (have a 500GB Western Digital MyBook Ext HD )
8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW & 24X CD-RW
Dual 512MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled
Internal 802.11b/g WiFi Card
Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet & 56K V.92 Modem
Alienware® Respawn Recovery Kit

These are my stock benchmarks (below) as run by the good
folks at AW.

3DMark 2005
Burn-In/Benchmarks
Doom 3 97.0 fps

3DMark Score: 9,847.00 3DMarks

GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 37.39 FPS

GT2 - Firefly Forest: 29.66 FPS

GT3 - Canyon Flight: 55.09 FPS

CPU Tests

CPU Score: 4,448.00 CPUMarks

CPU Test 1: 2.23 FPS

CPU Test 2: 3.94 FPS

I actually ran 3DMark05 on the laptop when I got
it and I scored over 10K, but I didn't do a screen shot before
I started loading up my programs/games. The screen shots you
see are 3DMark05 & 3DMark06 with all the stuff loaded on my lappy.

I have the following main games/programs loaded:

1. F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon)
2. Half-Life 1 & 2 Game of the Year Edition
[includes Counter-Strike: Source;
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch; and Half-Life: Source]
3. Doom 3
4. Quake 1 - 4
5. Risk II
6. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
7. Soldier of Fortune
8. Steganos Security Suite SE--good stuff for encryption
9. Office XP
10. Norton AV Corporate Edition v10.1
11. Various DVD ripping/editing programs
12. Flash Professional 8
13. FrontPage
14. Dreamweaver 8
15. Photoshop
16. Zone Alarm Professional

This is my first experience owning an AW and I look forward
to being a long term customer. Excellent product!

~Stephanie