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Gateway P-7811FX
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Gateway P-7811FX

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Alienware Area-51 m17x
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Alienware Area-51 m17x

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Release date April 01, 2004 August 14, 2008 August 01, 2008
The Bottom Line Acer's exceptional entertainment system squeezes excellent performance and nearly five hours of battery life out of a thin, sophisticated laptop. We don't know how Gateway makes money selling these things, but the combination of high-end components and low price makes the 17-inch Gateway P-7811FX the best mobile gaming deal going right now. If you're looking to drop some major change on a show-off gaming laptop, it's hard to do better than the Alienware Area-51 m17x, a mean-looking, high-performance black slab. You can find Blu-ray-equipped desktop replacements for less, but no other media laptop currently offers as many features for the price as the Asus M70.
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Features
Networking - IEEE 802.11g
- Bluetooth
- Fast Ethernet
- IEEE 802.11b
Network adapter - Ethernet
- Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE 802.11g
- Fast Ethernet
- IEEE 802.11n (draft)
- IEEE 802.11b
Network adapter - Ethernet
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Fast Ethernet
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Ethernet
- IEEE 802.11g
- Fast Ethernet
- IEEE 802.11n (draft)
- IEEE 802.11b
Network adapter - Ethernet
- Bluetooth 2.0
- IEEE 802.11a
- Gigabit Ethernet
Battery Lithium ion
Lithium ion
Lithium ion
Lithium ion
Telecom Fax / modem - 56 Kbps
Fax / modem - 56 Kbps
Info unavailable Fax / modem - MDC - 56 Kbps
Graphics Controller ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 - 128 MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS - 512 MB
Nvidia GeForce Go 8600M GT - 256 MB
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 - 1 GB
Storage Removable None
None
None
None
Optical Storage DVD?RW - Integrated
DVD?RW (?R DL) / DVD-RAM with Labelflash Technology
DVD+/-RW
DVD?RW / DVD-RAM - Integrated
RAM 512 MB (installed) / 2 GB (max) - DDR SDRAM - PC2700
4 GB DDR3 SDRAM - 1066 MHz - PC3-8500 ( 2 x 2 GB )
1 GB DDR II SDRAM
4 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM - 667 MHz
Cache Memory L2 cache
3 MB - L2 cache
3 MB - L2 cache
6 MB - L2 cache
Processor Intel Pentium M 1.8 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 / 2.26 GHz ( Dual-Core )