The chaps over at Hothardware take a look at the Alienware Aurora m9700 Notebook that features a glossy 17" UWUXGA LCD with a native resolution of 1920x1200.

With production systems not slated to ship until the end of June currently, there are still a number of logistic issues up in the air which remain to be decided. For consumers who choose a single GeForce Go 7900 GS, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to purchase a second GPU from Alienware's Gear Shop sometime down the road. In addition, there is no firm decision on whether a 512MB GeForce Go 7900 GTX will be made an option for the system. What we have heard thus far is that the GeForce Go 7900 GTX would be offered only as a single card if at all and not offered in pairs for SLI. With each of the flagship GPU's consuming 45W versus the 20W of the GeForce Go 7900 GS GPU's, we are likely looking at issues of available power and thermal dissipation. The last remaining question regarding the system is whether the new AMD Turion64 X2 would be made available as an option. In our opinion, this is a critical option that must be made available as we are now beginning to see some legitimate and substantial benefits to dual-core CPU's in various applications and games. Hopefully, the support of this new CPU could be added through a BIOS revision though no firm details are known at this time. We will keep you posted regarding the status of these issues and notify you of any final decisions made by Alienware.

Another "issue" which remains to be seen is how much more potential the mobile SLI platform has in store. Working with early drivers and Engineering Sample hardware, we were somewhat surprised to see a lack of any obscene performance increases. Don't get us wrong, the performance we witnessed with this system was phenomenal in every respect. However, based off of the gains we witness on the desktop platform, we expect performance to see healthy gains over the next few months as both the platform and drivers mature. Unfortunately, we only had 48hrs to test the system and post this review so there was not much room to investigate this issue further.Time will certainly tell in this case as we wait for new drivers, though you can be assured of excellent performance in the meantime regardless.