Alienware Chooses Airgo chipsets for new laptops

Julios Lanza writes "Alienware has chosen chipsets made by Airgo Networks to power two game-focused laptops. Alienware's 17-inch Aurora m9700 and 19-inch Aurora mALX notebooks are equipped with the Airgo's Gen3 True MIMO (multiple input, multiple output). Airgo's chips are designed to connect a computer with Wi-Fi systems at speeds fast enough to make high-performance gaming possible, Airgo executives said."

Comments

Rebranded Linksys.

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

I haven't heard of airgo & had no idea what their MIMO technology was, but a quick perusal of tfa:

Airgo, which already sells its earlier-generation chips through the Linksys unit of Cisco Systems and others, has pioneered a technology known as multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) that improves data speeds by sending radio signals from three antennas simultaneously.

Ergh, they're just linksys chipsets with three antennas.

Anyway, next I headed over to Airgo's webiste to have a look. Zouch! Follow any links and you get the following error:

Notice: Undefined index: DOCUMENT_ROOT in C:\AirgoMIMO\news\reviews\index.php on line 9

Warning: include(/includes/varsinit.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\AirgoMIMO\news\reviews\index.php on line 9

[etc]

That is.... shockingly unprofessional, but I guess the use of flash (and that lame timeline on the front page) should have clued me in.

Re:Your obviously not the intended market.

[tomstdenis]

What you want is a PSP. :-)

Seriously. You may be rolling in the dough but for me I have to justify the cost. My laptop (my dell == personal, fujitsu == work) is meant to go with me when I do contract work. I use it to earn money and hence the purchase. If all I wanted to do was gaming I'd buy a PSP [and I did] and bring that over. It can do Wifi gaming, is much lighter and cheaper.

That and a 15lbs laptop is stupid. That's really heavy to carry around (I suggest you put that, your adapter and a few books in a knapsack and carry that around an airport for 3 hours) and would run off batteries for what, like 30 seconds?

I not saying that all laptops are for is work. I read slashdot, play the occasional flash game and chat on my laptops. If you want to shell out serious dough for it go for it. all I'm saying is personally I don't see the desire.

Tom

Premature garbage

[bananaendian]

Don't read the TFA - read this: A Peek Ahead at 802.11n: MIMO-OFDM

Airgo's "True MIMO" is a pre-standard interpretation of the future 802.11blah (TGnSync vs. WWiSE) and will most likely not be compatible with the final 802.11n.

The MIMO concept itself offers to double the throughput at the expense of increasing bandwidth from 20 to 40MHz as well as spreading multipath garbage on the spectrum. If you've had fun with congestion on 802.11b/g channels, this 802.11n will really make your day.

Ok, so it might have marginally better spectral efficiency per Mbps but really, what we want to see is true beamforming dynamic-arrays that will properly 'point' the RF where it's supposed to go in real-time.

Meanwhile one of these 'gaming' laptops will just screwup the spectrum and slowdown existing b/g channels.