Alienware’s Hangar18 Beams Into The Living Room June 8, 2007

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Sticking with its ‘little green men’ theme, Dell-owned Alienware has announced its uber-home entertainment rig, Hangar18. Unlike the real one, Alienware is only too happy to let you know what’s going on inside.

Apart from those stunning good looks, the Hangar18 uses AMD’s first dedicated home entertainment chipset. At the heart is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor with Windows Vista Home Premium running on top. You can have up to four TV tuners, a 5.1 stereo surround sound receiver, up to 2TB of storage 4GB of DDR memory. There’s a 200W amplifier in-built to crank up that audio. There’s just one HDMI input though but, you do get the very funky Gyration remote, which does away with the need for a mouse.

The integrated nVidia graphics is good for 720p output only so you will have to fork out more for the optional nVidia upgrade to support Full HD at 1080p. Prices [US] start at around $2,000 and rocket upwards really, really fast.

Still, does anyone else think Alienware missed a trick by not building in a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive?-Martin Lynch

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