Alienware Sentia m3400

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Reviews for the Alienware Sentia m3400

60% Well designed and highly portable but are there cheaper options to consider?
Source: vnunet.com Archive.org version
Alienware is well known for its ostentatious gaming desktop computers. The Sentia m3400 may not win the hearts of hardcore gamers, but it's a well-designed, stylish notebook. The Alienware Sentia m3400 uses a 2GHz Pentium M processor and a generous 1Gb of memory. It also employs a clever trick of slowing down to save battery life when less power-hungry tasks are happening. This is indicative of Intel Centrino technology, which the m3400 uses, but we expected a lot more than the two hours of battery life achieved in our tests. The Intel Extreme graphics are integrated and can share from 8Mb to 128Mb of system memory, depending on the severity of the task in hand.
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3 von 5
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2006
Rating: Total score: 60%

60% Well designed and highly portable but are there cheaper options to consider?
Source: Personal Computer World Archive.org version
Alienware is well known for its ostentatious gaming desktop computers. The Sentia m3400 may not win the hearts of hardcore gamers, but it's a well-designed, stylish notebook. The Alienware Sentia m3400 uses a 2GHz Pentium M processor and a generous 1Gb of memory. It also employs a clever trick of slowing down to save battery life when less power-hungry tasks are happening. This is indicative of Intel Centrino technology, which the m3400 uses, but we expected a lot more than the two hours of battery life achieved in our tests.
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3 von 5, Preis/Leistung teuer, Display schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2006
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 85% display: 45%

Small Alienware Sentia grows up to 14 inches
Source: The Inquirer Archive.org version
The first impression is that we are talking about a great machine packed in a super-cool looking case. A friend that already owns a small Sentia could not get its eyes off the new Sentia 3400 and made a brave statement that it wants to buy this one as well. It is a fast machine with 100 GB storage and now it's glowing it looks even better than before. It is a real eye-catcher. The battery will get you some three plus hours and if you buy an additional one you will be fine for six hours. The additional one costs roughly €75 and it is a worthy investment. We are never satisfied with battery life as it can always be better but three hours is satisfactory.
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Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/08/2006

Foreign Reviews

50% The Sentia m3400 may not use the latest mobile technology, but there’s a surprise waiting under its uniquely-styled hood.
Source: PC Plus DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/21/2006
Rating: Total score: 50%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip with shared memory on Mobile Intel 915GM chipset. It is the predecessor of Graphics Media Accelerator 950. The performance can be compared with the Mobile Radeon 9000 (with a 64 bit memory bus).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Pentium M: With Intel chip set (855 or 915) and Intel WLAN also available with the name Centrino (name for the package).
In the comparison very fast per megahertz and very modest with weaknesses in floating point operations.
It is also available as a low voltage version with very small current consumption.

755: » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

14.10":

14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact. 

In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers. 

Alienware: Alienware was founded in the USA in 1996. The European headquarters is located in Ireland. Alienware has been part of the Dell Group since 2006. The product range mainly focuses on gaming laptops and desktops, which are developed and manufactured by Dell. The trademark is a slightly futuristic design with an Alien as the logo. Additionally, workstations for private and business customers are sold.

As with every brand, there are also some points of criticism with Alienware. Some customers have complained about the high prices of the products, while others have criticized the quality of customer services. There have also been some reports of problems with the reliability and durability of some Alienware products. However, many customers have also had positive experiences with the brand and appreciate the powerful gaming computers.

56.67%: Such a poor rating is rare. There are only a few notebooks that were rated even worse. The rating websites do not give a purchase recommendation here.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.