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Dell Pushes Alienware 18's CPU to a Face-Meltingly Fast 4.4GHz

I'd be interested in seeing their cooling solution. Laptops already run super hot and I often read people with gaming laptops complaining of throttling when they play games. Just judging by the picture, I assume the thickness is for the GPU but if the GPU doesn't take up that much space then I suppose they could create a much larger cooling solution.
 
I hope it does better than the XPS 16 / E6600 series that were throttled upon reaching the scorching-hot temperature of...60C.

"Here's a Lamborghini, but we've gimped half the cylinders and the gas tank is only two gallons. Have fun!"
 
They probably just do the same thing as my Asus, not only dedicate an unusual amount of space for heatsinks, but have fans that can spin at insane-o speed so you have to put a paperweight on the laptop to keep it from thrusting itself off the table.

I suppose if you game with headphones, that may not be a big deal, but personally I'm fine to put my gaming off until I'm back home. If I had assignments that kept me living in hotels or overseas and what not for extended periods though, you have ot make sacrifices for portability.
 
Horribly written article with a popup ad that wouldn't go away.

4.4GHz is kind of a waste in a laptop. Use that thermal headroom for a faster video card.
 
Since most of the high end laptops require you to be plugged in for long usage. We just have briefcase AIO's with an UPS and call it day.
 
Meh, i'd much rather have an ssd, faster ram and nicer graphics cards. and extra %10 on something that i almost never excede using 50% on seems uselss.
 
A lot of laptops i've seen have a lot of problems with overheating as it is with stock speeds. Most laptops are alright when you use them for regular usage. Once you push them to 100% cpu under intense load even beyond 100% load most laptops just can't handle the heat and either shut down or throttle back. Wouldn't be surprised if this thing shutdown under heavy usage. Manufacturers try to make the laptops as silent as possible but at a cost of stability/overheating. I've worked on a lot of laptops. At least 35-40% of them overheat on regular basis. 60-80c cpu temps on most laptops. Some cpus even reach 100c. Most desktop computers don't suffer hardware failures for years. Laptops on the other hand have loads of problems with heat failures. Cpu and motherboard failures from overheating. These computers are designed to fail to begin with. Longevity isn't on their minds mostly.
 
It's a pretty meaningless number at this point. I'd much rather have a netbook or smaller 14 inch or less screen sized laptop because I wanna be able to easily carry it around without having to deal with all the bulk. Also, any Intel graphics are really good enough and that's been that way since like the first Core 2 Duo notebooks came out. Dedicated GPUs are just a waste of money.
 
As almost every laptop I've seen sold in the last 2+ years claims X speeds, only to throttle the clocks down if at those speeds for any extended time, I'd have to see it to believe it
 
Heh, most of these alienware laptops I've seen are stretching it being called a laptop. Things are enormous... just about half the width of Dell's slim desktop towers.
 
Hopefully they don't exhaust on top of your balls. Some of the laptops will give you mutant sperm.
 
As an Alienware 17 owner, I would love a better cooling solution but overall I am very happy. It is a large laptop and the 18 is even bigger. Personally these are good if you tend to go to LAN parties alot as the performance is great. The service is ok but I think better then most consumer line companies offer.

As for this new concept I like it but I feel they are doing this as a stall tactic as they have yet to release their GTX 9XX series offerings.
 
AthlonXP said:
As an Alienware 17 owner, I would love a better cooling solution but overall I am very happy. It is a large laptop and the 18 is even bigger. Personally these are good if you tend to go to LAN parties alot as the performance is great. The service is ok but I think better then most consumer line companies offer.
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I still don't see the point...it's basically a small suitcase. You may as well build a small form factor PC (that's just as powerful, but without the crazy thermal management requirements), if you are worried about going to a bunch of LAN parties.
 
Oh for a second I thought they had an 18 cpu rig. Got all excited until I read it.
 
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