Craig Pinckney, 34, a shipping manager at a Connecticut environmental laboratory, seriously considered trading in his Alienware Area 51 tower (complete with a cyborg-green paint job) for the new Doom 3 machine, but decided he could just upgrade his processor and video card instead.

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The goal here was to showcase the underlying rigidity of the machine, without the retail coat of paint covering up the magic within.

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