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Alienware Area-51m 5750

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Pros
Excellent big-screen entertainment
Speedy
Cons
Poor battery life
Problematic keyboard

Performance: Superior: 98
Features: Good: 74
Design: Very Good: 83

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	459
Adobe Photoshop	264
Adobe Premiere	341
Ahead Nero	278
Battery Life (Office Applications)	1:52
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	238
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	297
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	95
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	152.56
Microsoft Office XP	528
Mozilla	330
Musicmatch Jukebox	409
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	222
Windows Media Encoder	247
WinZip	244
World Bench 5 Score	125
World Bench 5 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	387

What You Should Know about the Area-51m 5750

Multitask and Not Bog Down

The more memory a PC has, the faster your programs run and the more windows you can work in simultaneously. Equipped with memory between 1GB and 3GB, this laptop should be able to handle just about any task you can throw at it without bogging down too much. For instance, if you're a multitasker and you'd like to burn a music CD in one window while watching your favorite DVD movie (for the umpteenth time) in another--while flipping between your inbox and your browser to work on your blog during the movie's boring parts--this laptop can manage it all without a hiccup.