Alienware Area-51 m9750 Laptop

Alienware fans will be happy to know that the company is all geared up to launch a new 17" gaming notebook, the m9750. While Alienware is tight-lipped about its date of release, expect it to hit the shelves by January end.

The Alienware Area-51 m9750 is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo technology and has the distinction of being the world's first 17" notebook to feature Nvidia SLI technology . Thus Alienware has no qualms about calling it the "the most powerful 17" system in the world.

One also comes across an integrated TV tuner,full-size keyboard with numeric keypad, dual Nvidia graphics cards and dual SATA hard drives. The notebook would come bundled with the Vista OS and one can also configure it with a Blu-ray drive, upto 2GB of RAM and upto 400GB of hard drive. No word on pricing.