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Alienware Sentia m3200Alienware scores big with first ultraportable laptop.
Rick Rizner, Chris Manners
Alienware's smallest notebook yet, the Sentia m3200, offers a bright 12.1-inch wide-screen display, a good case design, and zippy performance. Only its slightly disappointing keyboard should give you pause. (That and maybe the big alien head on the lid.)
Using a 2-GHz Pentium M 760 processor and 1GB of RAM, the Sentia earned an impressive WorldBench 5 score of 92, placing in the top four of our current group of ultraportables.
At $1525 (as of 2/16/06), our test unit included an 80GB hard drive; however, the 4.8-pound Sentia m3200 beats most thin-and- light competitors with the option of a capacious 160GB drive, which costs $298 more than the drive in our configuration.
I liked the lid's rubberized hand grips, as well...