Our silver Alienware Aurora m9700 color laptop review reimburses the fact that Alienware still makes a fine gaming laptop. This Alienware Aurora m9700 is a couple of years old, but it is in extremely good condition. The laptop is SLI enabled which provides us with very solid frame rates. During our Alienware Aurora m9700 review we were able to play Call of Duty 4 at all maxed out settings with no anti-aliasing or artifacts, and at 60 or more fps.


Dual SATA hard drives offered lots of storage options, and Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition was the installed OS (Operating System). As far as the graphics in our Alienware Aurora m9700 review laptop goes, we had Dual 256MB NVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS SLI Enabled video cards. These were quite exceptional during not only DVD movie testing, but gaming and stress tests as well.

The LCD was a nice, clear 17” Wide XGA+ 1440 x 900 with Clearview Technology and the audio was produced via High-Definition Audio with surround sound. Memory included 2GB Dual Channel RAM, and the processor was a 2.0GHz AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML37 with the 800MHz FSB (Front Side Bus). All these goodies were on a Alienware NVIDIA Mobile SLI Chipset motherboard.

The Alienware Aurora m9700 color laptop had a smooth, glossy finish on the case and came in silver (Silver Saucer to be exact). The full sized keyboard offered exceptional comfort. Also included was a 24x DVD-ROM/CD-RW burner.

Colored Laptops

It is always a pleasure to do an Alienware laptop review because there is always a great attempt to make an ultra powerful laptop, and Alienware tends to succeed at this quite nicely. Great parts make for great colored laptops.

Additional Features noted during this Alienware Aurora m9700 review include an internal 802.11b/g WiFi card and integrated Bluetooth device capabilities for all your wireless requirements. The standard integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet plus a 56K V.92 modem round out the connectivity options right out of the box.

Four USB 2.0 ports, one coaxial port, two s-video ports, one DVI adapter, and one FireWire port with overall laptop support for up to four monitors which is really a nice feature for those ultra special situations.

The Alienware Aurora m9700 is not an extremely lightweight, but not bad for all that comes with it, gaming laptop weighing in at just over 9lbs. Remember; this is an SLI graphics laptop which means you have two video graphics cards working together via the SLI (Serial Line Interface).

This laptop is basically a portable PC, and a powerful PC at that. This is not exactly a cheap Alienware laptop, but you can certainly find eyebrow raising deals on this model and other used Alienware laptops if you are not quite ready to buy new.