Sunday, March 19, 2006
Alienware Area-51 3550
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 12:00 PM
"Alienware plays it safe with the Area-51 3550, its first Viiv-based Media Center. Our build meets all the requirements for an Intel Viiv sticker but adds little else to the configuration--and it carries the high price typical of Alienware. The $1,747 review unit uses the company's all-too-familiar full-tower case in what it calls Cyborg Green. The case looks great, but it's huge and certainly not living-room-friendly. Alienware has smaller, sleeker cases in its arsenal, which makes this choice all the more disappointing. For the same money (minus monitor and speakers), Dell's Viiv-flavored XPS 400 is a better buy, offering a faster Pentium D 940, plus better graphics in a compact BTX case."
Not one of Alienware's better offerings. Seems like they just threw together this machine so they could say they had a Viiv offering.
Not one of Alienware's better offerings. Seems like they just threw together this machine so they could say they had a Viiv offering.
