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Alienware Area-51 M15x Uses NVIDIA GPU

Quadro FX 3600M in 15.4-in. notebook offers unified architecture, improves visual-computing and image quality.

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August 1, 2008

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Alienware (Miami, FL) offers the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU on its Alienware Area-51 m15x notebook, redefining graphics performance on a 15.4-inch notebook to address the needs of on-the-go digital content professionals. The company says unprecedented graphics performance is possible on next-generation visualization applications.

The Alienware Area-51 m15x is positioned to provide industrial designers and other creative professionals with graphics capabilities on a highly portable platform, says the company. The Quadro FX 3600M delivers support for Open GL 2.1, Shader Model 4.0, DirectX 10, and more. Combining this graphics processor with the Area-51 m15x allows designers and engineers to work in complex, real-time, photorealistic environments throughout an array of CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.

While Alienware also offers an NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M on the Area-51 m9750 and will soon make available the Quadro FX 3600M on the Area-51 m17x to provide customers with a range of professional-class solutions, it says the Area-51 m15x is the only 15.4-in. notebook equipped with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M.

For specific information, please visit Alienware.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

 

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