DH Review: Alienware MJ-12 Series Workstation

Zardon · Feb 8, 2006, 12:00 PM

Whilst Alienware are great at producing high performance systems for the gaming and home markets as well as mobile parts these don’t meet the needs of everyone and that’s where today’s product comes in. The Alienware MJ-12 is a workstation system designed for tasks such as 3D modelling, Photoshop and even video editing. Think of the most demanding tasks you would throw at any designer or developer and you pretty much have the work Alienware have build this system to handle.

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Falstaff · Feb 9, 2006, 06:06 AM

An interesting offering from Alien, I suppose I should see these in the local shops soon, I was always discouraged from dealing with our local chains here because they didnt know the product.
As usual Z, it is easier to come here and see what my peers think about this new item and make my own decisions about purchasing the product.
In the U.S. we have consumer reports and the rags like Maximum PC and CPU or similiar magazines that hype every damn thing on the market and the "also rans", it is refreshing to see DH take a different tack and give us real data, and useful info as well.
Thanx Z...

redsolar · Feb 9, 2006, 07:50 AM

It's interesting to see a FireGL card in a designer's station. Most of the time it's Quadro's and Wildcats... Especially considering it's based on an nVidia chipset.

Great review, Z.

Falstaff · Feb 9, 2006, 08:09 AM

Wait till you see the Dell XPS with four....oh yes four 7800 cards onboard....now that would be something to see...

SFOSOK · Feb 9, 2006, 08:16 AM

Sad thing is that XPS won't support DX 10 lol

redsolar · Feb 9, 2006, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Falstaff

Wait till you see the Dell XPS with four....oh yes four 7800 cards onboard....now that would be something to see...

I saw that announcement - didn't impress me too much. I still want to see if they can deliver it

. If they do, it will be a killer machine though. I hope they have enough PSU to feed 4 cards and a dual core chip....

Feb 8, 2006, 12:00 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	DH Review: Alienware MJ-12 Series Workstation Whilst Alienware are great at producing high performance systems for the gaming and home markets as well as mobile parts these don’t meet the needs of everyone and that’s where today’s product comes in. The Alienware MJ-12 is a workstation system designed for tasks such as 3D modelling, Photoshop and even video editing. Think of the most demanding tasks you would throw at any designer or developer and you pretty much have the work Alienware have build this system to handle. read the review here

Feb 9, 2006, 06:06 AM	#2
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	An interesting offering from Alien, I suppose I should see these in the local shops soon, I was always discouraged from dealing with our local chains here because they didnt know the product. As usual Z, it is easier to come here and see what my peers think about this new item and make my own decisions about purchasing the product. In the U.S. we have consumer reports and the rags like Maximum PC and CPU or similiar magazines that hype every damn thing on the market and the "also rans", it is refreshing to see DH take a different tack and give us real data, and useful info as well. Thanx Z... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Feb 9, 2006, 07:50 AM	#3
redsolar Off duty Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas, USA Posts: 1,242 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	It's interesting to see a FireGL card in a designer's station. Most of the time it's Quadro's and Wildcats... Especially considering it's based on an nVidia chipset. Great review, Z. __________________ Real_Men_Do_Not_Use_Space_Bar Main rig: Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 Ghz \| Corsair H50 Push/Pull \| 12GB OCZ DDR3 \| ASUS Radeon HD 5850 \| 3x 1TB Samsung F3 RAID5 on Dell PERC 5i SAS + 1TB Hitachi \| MSI X58 Pro-e \| 850W Antec Truepower Quattro \| RocketFish by Lian Li Full Tower Case \| Gateway XHD3000 30" LCD \| Dell 2408WFP 24" LCD \| Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD \| Logitech Z-5500 Speakers \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Laptop: Samsung x360-34P \| Core 2 Duo SU9400 1.4 GHz \| 4GB DDR3 \| 128GB Samsung SSD \| Intel 4500M w/ HDMI \| WiFi \| Bluetooth \| 13.3" WLED 1280x800 \| Windows 7 Professional x64

Feb 9, 2006, 08:09 AM	#4
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Wait till you see the Dell XPS with four....oh yes four 7800 cards onboard....now that would be something to see... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Feb 9, 2006, 08:16 AM	#5
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	Sad thing is that XPS won't support DX 10 lol __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!