Technology Article #7

Eyah Ncho

December 15, 2010

Information Technology

Mr. Stia

Due: December 17, 2010

IT Article

Dell Alienware Area-ALX CrossFire

Dell has made a new desktop called the Dell Alienware Area-ALX CrossFire. This desktop is designed to play video games. It can hold a lot memory for school work or any important information. This is a heavy desktop to be moving around a lot and if it falls when you move it, it might break and it very pricy just for this kind. The Alienware is dream of any human being at this century mostly teenagers and men that love to play video games. This desktop holds up to six hard drives and that holds up to twenty-four thousand, five hundred, seventy-six worth of gigabytes, that’s a lot of memory. What can you do with all that memory? There are some problems that people won’t like but it has a meaning to it. What I mean about that is that there is a problem but there is a reason for the problems. The price of this is very pricy but if you really want this desktop then it you will not regret that you bout this item. Just keep reading and there is very interesting things about the desktop, Dell Alienware Area-ALX CrossFire. This desktop will amaze you.

The Dell Alienware Area-ALX CrossFire has very good parts into it. It is so good that I don’t know where to begin. This desktop is for gamers that like to play video games and play games, period. It can be played like that age of thirteen through adults. It’s great for independent people that loves to play games.  It comes with a six GB DDR SDRAM. The processor is an Intel Core i7 960. There is a fan on the CPU, which is awesome! It can work really fast and won’t slow down because of the fan that keeps the CPU cooled. The water cooling block that and the fan setup on the Aurora ALX is going to be on this desktop and that what cools the CPU. This is very powerful desktop. It uses Windows seven Home Premium sixty-four bit. It can read blu-ray DVD’s and it can write and read a DVD and a CD (DVD+/-RW writable). If there is anybody that has mostly blu-ray DVD’s then this is a good system to use if you just want it to yourself. This is my favorite part that it has three USB ports on the front but on the back there are six for gaming. That is a total of nine USB ports to store, play games and others! On the back there is also an eSATA and FireWire. There are six video outputs, four DVI and two Mini Display port. As I said earlier, the storage is wonderful and it has six hard drives and all together that holds up to twenty-four thousand, five hundred, seventy-six worth of storage. It also has five hundred GBs in every hard drive. This is a fantastic hard drive set up and you can take and put hard drives in. The interior lighting is different and it new. It makes the desktop presentable.

The bad things about this desktop is that it is loud. There is a reason because of the many components that is working together and the extra hard drives make the noises. If you have a baby or somebody that is sleeping then it is not good to play while they are sleeping. The noises might be annoying but when you play video games you won’t even know that the noise is still there. If you have a headache then it won’t be good to play because of the noises. It’s very heavy to lift up so kids and woman shouldn’t carry it or they might hurt themselves. It should be two people carrying it especially when you get it at your door. The weight when it is shipped to you is over hundred dollars ponds but when it is out the box the weight is about eighty-four pounds. It’s very expensive to buy but if it will be the best Christmas gift for you, your kid’s wife/husband, anybody that you might think that will love it then it will be a good gift. Also dell wouldn’t let you pay for it one time, you can pay for it every month little as $150 dollars. It uses over two hundred watts of electricity and while playing a video game it uses about three hundred seventy watts and all that together is over six hundred watts of electricity. That is a lot of electricity to be using all at one time. This desktop is NOT eco-friendly. If you are a person that wants to cut the bills and half and help the earth than this isn’t a computer that you want to use. You can use it for like going on the internet or playing cards but not playing a video game.

My opinion about the desktop is that this looks like a good computer for basically anyone. But I have some things that I like about it and something’s that I think I really not sure about or that I don’t like. Let me start on the things that I do like and that is the hard drive. I like that you can hold a lot of memory on all those hard drives. It might take years for someone to fill all those hard drives. I am a person that needs a lot of USB ports, because of all the USB cables that I have. With the desktop that has nine USB ports, that’s a lot. I am really not a gaming person but my brother is so the gaming could be good for him and I can just go one internet and do work and study. Even though it is a lot of money to purchase this desktop, you can pay monthly and I like that dell decided to do that. It has a nice exterior design and it would really catch people’s eyes. The things that I don’t like about this desktop is that it is noisy because I get headaches real fast. If I was living alone there wouldn’t be no one to carry this for me and I will have to carry it myself and I wouldn’t want to hurt myself. The price is out of this world and to me I think I wouldn’t buy it because it is too much. If it was on sale then I will debate if I want to buy it or not. I am kind of an eco-friendly person so all that electricity is too much. Would I buy this product? Maybe.

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