Alienware's Area-51m 7700 Mobile Desktop reviewed.

Personally, I'm a fan of portable desktop machines - hell, I'm typing this on a 17" powerbook. If I were happy to work in the Windows world, then something like this alienware beast would suit me down to the ground - and probably do a lot better for gaming as well.

Pity about them windows tho', huh?

Personally, I don't move my computer around that much - but it's worth me having a laptop so I can keep up on things when I go away, or for the rare occasions when I have to give a presentation. If I were travelling more, or more a mobile computing user, than a computer user who moves once in a while, then I'd probably want a nice, light little 12" machine as backup to a large, non-portable desktop.

Anyhow - back to the Alienware machine. The basic specs are nice, but the RAID 0 makes my inner sysadmin twitch nervously. And 40 gig SATA drives? What's with that? Everything else looks alright, and for a laptop, it's a pretty groovy machine - but in my opinion, flawed badly by the storage system.

Maybe next time - larger hard drives and none of that RAI0 crap.