Holy cow, Bap! Nice, detailed review.

"There’s also a GeForce 9400 video card which can be used to conserve battery power."

Dear Lord, and alternate graphics solution in addition to SLI'd 260s!? That's ridiculously awesome. The specs on this thing rival my few-month-old gaming PC, and those are some impressive benchmarks.

The embedded pic gallery at the end was a blast to click through. That's one slick looking laptop!

Also, I bought a Dell XPS M170 about a year ago, and it still performs incredibly well with games like TF2 and L4D. If you're interested in a sturdy 17"-laptop case, Targus makes an incredibly sturdy and spacious case that has more room than I can even handle. It's a bit hefty, but it's probably not a big deal when you're planning on carrying an already heavy laptop.

That case looks decent. I picked up a Swiss Army one that fits it, but it's still tight.

Dukefrukem says...
The Alien Sense is pretty cool huh? So accurate! Nice write up. Wish you did some other benches like 3dmark, cinebench, hdtune and superpi but thanks for checking out those games. I'm surprised at the DoW results.

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I thought about doing some others and figured that for our audience most people would only care about gaming performance. Which is also why I focused on games that have co-op.

Great review. One thing you could add is avg temps. Especially when gaming laptops get very hot, with all that power in such a small area. Would be nice to know how well they do dissipating that heat.

Also, check out NHC (notebook hardware control) to undervolt your CPU to conserve battery / lower temps when not gaming.

As an aside. I've been using an Asus barebones that I built 3 years ago that still can run most modern games at playable framerates.

A great review for sure.

I'm not sold on the system as a whole though. The cost just seems incredibly prohibitive. There are a good amount of gaming laptops for less than half of the retail price that get blisteringly fast performance.

Of course, you're not looking for a good value if your considering dropping this kind of coin on a laptop. You want flashy shit for no good reason and BLAST PROCESSING. For you folks, this is your dream machine.

If it weren't for the considerable heft of this bad boy, I'd swap my daily use ASUS G50 for it in a heartbeat. And I'll continue to pimp ASUS laptops as they're incredible performance for the money and last for freaking ever. Not to mention the phenomenal warranty that comes with them.

As for big honkin' laptop bags, I'm absolutely in love with my OGIO City Corp (Messenger Style) case. It's durable, roomy, slips on my roller carry-on, and pads the crap out of my favorite little lappy. I've only got a 15" but it's wider than normal and still has room to grow in this posh pack.

Glad you're liking your new machine though! Now get alienware to do a giveaway...

I could use a replacement for my desktop.