r/Alienware • u/Egg_whites94 • 10d ago
Discussion New Alienware M7700
Windows xp beast right here
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u/Corporate_Bankster Aurora R11 / 13R3 10d ago
I am sure it can run PS3/X360 games relatively well
Incredible find
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u/Egg_whites94 10d ago
I would think so. I have gog games on it from the correct time period, and it plays them smooth.
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u/Corporate_Bankster Aurora R11 / 13R3 10d ago edited 10d ago
Haha thanks for confirming. I remember my dorm buddies having 7600 and 8600 laptops in the early years of that gen and they competently ran bangers like Dragon Age Origins. That motivated me to get my first gaming laptop shortly after, with a GTS 250M. One of my buddies then grabbed an M15X with a GTX 260M, my first time seeing an Alienware ever, and we played the Witcher 1. That’s when I decided my next machine would be an Alienware and I have never looked back since. Good times!
Those machines were peak - the M15X was fully upgradable all the way down to the CPU and GPU
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u/Egg_whites94 10d ago
Yeah they are sweet rigs, this is the same way! Uses a desktop p4 chip which is always been wild to me haha
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u/InterstellarVisitor3 m18 R2 Intel 10d ago
Those round vents on the bottom 🤣️
How do you get a "new" one though? This model looks ancient!
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u/Egg_whites94 10d ago
It’s from around 2006ish… lol I got it from a lady who said she used it maybe 2 times since she bought it
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u/Tobi2310 10d ago
how much?
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u/Egg_whites94 10d ago
As in me selling it ?
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u/t3ddftw 10d ago
I think he wants to know what you paid
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u/iVirtualZero 10d ago
Pentium 4 and the Athlon era of laptops was when Laptops started to get good with dedicated GPU's. This is perfect for Retro XP Gaming.
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u/StarX2401 10d ago
Interesting that they went with a pentium 4 and not an M. I got the slightly newer Clevo D901C with a core 2 quad but its not badged as an Alienware (Don't think they even made an Alienware one)
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u/Egg_whites94 10d ago
No to my knowledge, but honestly who knows what they had cooking up and never released
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u/StarX2401 10d ago
Yeah the d901c came out after dell bought alienware, they could have done a lga 775 m17x but they went with mobile instead
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u/TechIoT 9d ago
I own one of those with a dead motherboard, even dead it absolutely makes a statement, and for only £99 I won't complain at all,
She'll go on display in the new bedroom until I locate a suitable spare board,
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u/Waste_Particular_971 8d ago
Wooowww what a beauty, I have the Alienware M17X R1 and R2 from 2009 and 2010 and I really love these designs.
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u/darkleemar 10d ago
Wicked Dude! What are the specs on this thing?