The Truth is out There: Alienware's Area-51 PC Las Vegas NV

Posted by : Donald Pfeffer

Alienware has long been one of the foremost manufacturers of gaming PCs, but with the recent redesign of their machines, it seems they intend to become the Lamborghini of the industry. Such aspirations may seem odd for a company that makes PCs, but one look at the new Area-51 is all it takes to realize it's unlike anything else on the market. With a design straight out of a science fiction film and a set of internal components equally out of this world, the Area-51 may just pass Lamborghini in terms of speed, beauty, and cachet.

Like a sports car, Alienware's computers come in a choice of seven colors, but choosing anything other than black hikes up the price. The Area-51 has a sleek, molded plastic case that perfectly fits the name, but honestly, the machine looks more gaudy than anything else. But even gaudy is somehow more appealing than having a plain, beige box sitting on your desk. My biggest complaint with the case is the difficulty the shape creates in opening and closing the box to perform upgrades. Expect to spend far more time figuring out how to open and close it than you will actually installing that new video card. Not that you should expect to install any new components anytime soon; the PC itself is absolutely state of the art.

As a games machine, the Area-51 is beyond compare and worth every penny. Frame refresh rates become insignificant on this machine, as games like "Quake III" or "Unreal Tournament" rarely dr...

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