Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition gaming PC
By Trusted Reviews
Published Tuesday 26th July 2005 10:57 GMT
I've got a bad feeling about this, I thought to myself when I first heard that Alienware was going to build a Star Wars-branded PC. I know how much licences like these cost - my wife used to work in licensing for LucasFilm. Believe me, Mr Lucas knows all too well the power of his brand, and he's never likely to undervalue it.
That said, if any PC company could construct a Star Wars box that looked great and could make point five past light speed, it's Alienware, writes Riyad Emeran. Alienware offers two very different Star Wars chassis, one for the Light Side, one for the Dark Side.
I was briefly tempted by the Light Side version, but then I remembered that its feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side. Besides, the black and red theme of the Dark Side system looks far more imposing, and let's face it, you're buying this machine as much for how it looks on the outside as what's on the inside, maybe more so.
When I first saw images of these PCs I thought they looked awesome with visions of hand-airbrushed images filling my mind. I was therefore a little disappointed when I finally got my paws on my Star Wars box and realised that the artwork is actually an adhesive sticker. That's not to say that it doesn't look great, because it does.
<img src="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/images/smiles/source.jpg"> The Register
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