StephyGee's Conspiracy Blue 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

Yep...so far, so good....been having a blast with my lappy. Took a whole week of leave so I can play with it more. I've blazed through F.E.A.R. and Quake 4, so I'm on Doom 3. So many games, so little time....

On a side note, the 500GB Western Digital MyBook is the HEAT! I've just ripped the X-Men 3 & Mission Impossible DVDs (took all of about a half hour each) plus I've got tons of games and programs loaded up, but the thing keeps begging for more. Great investment!

Yeah...creepy, isn't it? I tell you...lugging this AW to the coffee shop to game is something. The Targa backpack is great....enough padding to make the trip comfortable on my bike, and its size, even when full, is pretty deceiving. When I pull the lappy out, folks look like "How'd you fit that monster in THERE?!" I lifted up my HP the other day and I almost tossed it to the ceiling; I'm so used to the heft of the AW compared to the HP.

Gave my leg a nice little red mark when the lappy got a bit warm during an intense game of Doom 3. Other than that, this thing is the HEAT! (no pun intended)

Yeah, I notice that the numbers go down the more games/programs I load up. Hmm....

Yeah...I'm very happy with my toy