Alienware is now offering a new “Quick Ship” version of its Area-51 m5550 laptop. If you want your Alienware laptop sooner and don’t mind losing the configuration option so dear to all Alienware lovers, you get a very well equipped laptop for $1699. The laptop comes with 15.4” LCD screen, Intel T7200 Core 2 Duo (2GHz) processor, ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics, 2GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive and an 8x dual layer DVD burner. Alienware guarantees that your laptop will ship within 48 hours.