A review of the Alienware Aurora M7700 featuring an AMD FX-60 CPU, 2GB DDR400, two 80GB hard drives in RAID 0, an nVidia GeForce Go 7800 with 256MB, a 17-inch screen and more for just over $5000.

$5000 USD?

My first laptop, a Toshiba Satellite A110-110, which we bought also in 2006 was around $1000 USD.

And I saw/see even this laptop overpriced at that time.

It had an Intel Celeron M410, 1.46 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM (later extended to 2 GB, which was its maximum), 60 GB HDD, Ati Radeon Xpress 200M, and Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

Of course the mentioned Alienware laptop was more powerful, but seeing the $5000 USD price tag on it, it was still very much overpriced at that time, like most laptops at that time.