Alienware

[tweakyapoc]

Alienware laptops


worth the money??

[kram 2.0]

I'd say no. Alienware has always had the tendency of overcharging for "high-end" machines. I would rather get a Dell, who coincidentally bought out Alienware the other day.

kram

[jayb1234]

Nope overpriced, overhyped and overrated. They use a lot of no name generic components and don't even tell you the manufacturer of a lot of them, have known junk brands as options and low ratings that are getting progressively worse. They try to lure you in with fancy cases etc, but are definitely a very bad buy.

[tweakyapoc]

Do you guys have any idea for a awesome gaming laptop?

[thefultonhow]

One of the best currently on the market is the Dell Inspiron XPS M1710.

[Computerguy2]

Yes if you have a lot of money to spend. An awsome laptop is the Aurora m7700 you can push it to the exteme with multitasking and games and it will keep going. The best processor to get for that system is the AMD FX-60 dual core and 2 GB of ram

[corolla_man_j]

Not meaning to give life to an old thread, but I figured that I would give insight from an actual Alienware owner, rather than someone that doesn't have one. I have been following Alienware for around 5 years or so, and they have come off of their pricing alot. I own a MJ-12 P4 3.8 ghz 800fsb 3 gigs of RAM nVidia GeForce Go 6800 256 with dual 80 (74) gig drives. Alienware was my only choice for a mobile platform, nobody else could touch the specs. I looked at IBM, Gateway, Sager, Dell, Toshiba, and a couple other manufacturers of laptops, and the most that they came up with was a 2.6 ghz 2 gig'r for around $2400. Sager was the exception. Reading about how many people think that Sager is cheaper than Alienware, I checked out Sager. For the basic computer, they might have the head beat, but for a maxxed out notebook Alienware came in around $300 cheaper than Sager. Was Alienware running a special, no. It turnes out that the price point on both the processor and the RAM was much more expensive with Sager. My MJ-12 does get hot, but you have to think, a 3.8 ghz chip in close proximity to the video card, memory, and 2 HDD. Does the battery life suck? Not really, considering that it is not a laptop. The Apple MacBook is a laptop. It has a slower processor, and uses passive cooling. It is made for note taking and internet browsing. Alienware notebooks are not laptops meaning, they are not really meant to take on a plane and watch a DVD from New York to Nashville. They are basically full size desktops, that are made portable. You need to think of it this way: When the power goes out and your UPS kicks in, you don't expect your gaming rig to stay on for 2 hours, you want enough time to get your computer shut down so it doesn't hurt anything. My battery lasts right at 65 minutes, but that is with out doing my high-end stuff.
Closing argument.
I do alot of Graphics processing and video rendering, so there was no other choice in a mobile platform. I got the heaviest, biggest, bulkiest laptop that is available: The Alienware MJ-12. It weighs in at 10.00 lbs, the hard case weighs another 6 lbs, and I have to have another bag just to carry the power supply brick. People may laugh, but how many people have a 3.8 ghz monster as their gaming rig? And of those people, how many have it in a mobile platform? Some will settle, but I think that it was $3600 well spent.

Edit1: Pentium and nVidia are rather well known brands, so are Atheros and Realtek
Edit2: Dell did buy Alienware , but they have no say in what goes on in the Alienware camp, Dell is nothing more than a profit sharing financial backer