Back in November we reported on another in what's becoming a long line of issues with Dell's and Alienware's laptops, with M17x owners suffering from "skipping, stuttering audio" -- rather unbecoming ...

My friend got an Alienware Area-51 7700 about a month ago. Recently, when playing mp3's, the sound became raspy and sounds more like static, it isn't even possible to make out what you are listening ...