Not long after the purchase of my new car, my new laptop arrived: an Alienware Area-51 m5750. This baby an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and has a 17" widescreen monitor that gets up to a 1920x1200 resolution. That gives me plenty of room for code when I open up Visual Studio. I bought it with minimal RAM (512 MB) and added more myself when it arrived (it's now 2 GB).

Once it arrived, I installed the new memory along with Windows Vista. It runs beautifully. With the exception of the DVD-ROM not wanting to read EA games, the machine works fantastically.

I'm very excited about this new toy of mine. It's a high performance media machine that doesn't only work well, but looks pretty cool, too.