Alienware Notebooks Tout Sleekness, Power

The new Alienware Sentia m3200 offers extremely lightweight portability, while the Aurora m7700 offers raw power with AMD Athlon 64 FX or 64 X2 dual-core processors.

Design-oriented computer maker Alienware has unveiled the Sentia m3200 and the Aurora m7700 notebook computers, one offering an ultra-slim and lightweight form factor for maximum portability, and the other offering desktop-rivalling processor and graphics performance.

The Alienware Sentia m3200 features a 12.1-inch wide-screen (1280 by 800) LCD display with either an Intel Pentium M or Celeron M CPU (ranging from 1.5 to 2.0 GHz) and Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics, a base 256MB of RAM, 3 USB 2.0 ports, a 40 GB to 120 GB hard drive, VGA and X-video output, a four-pin mini FireWire/IEEE 1394 port, built-in 100Base-T Ethernet, a 56Kbps modem, headphone and 5:1 digital audio output, line/mic input, an Express Card slot, and a 4-in-1 (SD/MS/MSPRO/MMC) card reader. An optical drive slot can accommodate either a CD-RW or DVD+/-RW unit, and wireless networking capabilities are optional. But what may be coolest about the m3200 is its size