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- Cowzeetgrass, on 11/04/2009, -0/+21Roll your own.
Newegg offers gift certificates. - askantik, on 11/03/2009, -0/+16That $1400 PC has a video card in it that has been in my PC for 2 years and I spent about $650 to $700 to build it and that's when a 1GB 4850 was $199. It isn't anywhere near that price now...
- luftrofl, on 11/04/2009, -0/+13Build your own or be prepared to spend way too much (read: waste) money.
- Sux4Bux, on 11/04/2009, -0/+11Or put your money in a blender. Same thing.
- Frankzulla, on 11/03/2009, -1/+9I'd still rather build my own but it does look like a good selection.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8Whoa whoa whoa. There is NOTHING wrong with a 4850. I certainly wouldn't lump it in with "some junky card that's 2 years old."
Granted, I would expect something better in a modern and suposedly top of the line gaming system, but my 4850 still runs everything I care to play, including new games, without issue and on High settings. Nothing wrong with that. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6Same exact thing here. Though actually it couldn't have been much longer than a year and a half ago since that's when the 4850 came out.
My system was about $800 at the time, my Core 2 Quad Q6600 STILL hasn't seen a game that gets in its way and that system only has a (rather gratuitous) extra 2GB of RAM compared to my own.
How in the world can you justify paying roughly twice what I did a year and a half ago just for an i7 processor and a couple gigs of RAM?
This is why everyone should just build their own gaming systems, or pay a friend with know-how $100 to do it for them. They'd still save a boatload of cash. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/04/2009, -1/+7Anyone who spends money on a gaming laptop is an idiot. Anyone who spends money on an Alienware gaming laptop is just a fool.
I speak from experience. $1400 bought me 11-months, not even a full year, until that piece of ***** broke, and judging by many of the people I've talked to both in person and online I am not alone.
Don't buy anything from Alienware. It's generally cheap, generic parts in a fancy case sold at a premium.
Not to mention their designs look like cheap plastic ***** (because they are). - Sexercise, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6I much prefer building my own PC. Then watercooling it. Then deciding it's not good enough and upgrading.
That's the benefit of making your own. Plus, you don't get a 4850 or some junky card that's 2 years old - Sux4Bux, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6You really have to be mentally handicapped to not build your own PC. It's so easy and much cheaper to get a superior machine.
- jayjayjoni, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5I wish I had more money for PC gaming :(
- Sexercise, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4Oh no, don't get me wrong, I own two in Crossfire, but those are hardly worthy of a 3500 dollar PC from some manufacturer.
I'm still trying to justify upgrading to some 5870's, or possibly a 5970 :P - erix84, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Dell bought Alienware if that tells you anything.
- fragMasterFlash, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I think the government needs to stimulate the economy by purchasing a $6,449 gaming laptop for me.
- ahhell, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4Why are there no Macs on that list?
LOL - askantik, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Yeah it come out last summer, my bad. But still... it's not really considered a latest and greatest anymore by any means, and they are acting like that $1400 machine is amazing or something. For that price you should be able to get 2 better video cards in Crossfire...
- thestereofield, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3I think you'd be much better off with a ~$700 laptop (my buddy's new 14" vaio has a gt 210m, ddr3, 500gb hdd, blu ray, etc for $750) and building a ~$700 desktop from parts. That's just my 2 cents.
- riptor666, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2For 2k u can get an i7 and CF 5870's along with water cooling so screw this marked up junk.
- Wakkyweed, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Try playing Crysis on high resolution on your buddy's $700 laptop, then get back to me.
From Notebookcheck: The performance of the entry level G 210M should be somewhere between the GeForce G 110M and the GeForce 9500M G. Therefore, older or less demanding games should run fluently with medium to high details. Demanding DirectX 10 games, like Crysis, are playable only in low detail settings and low resolutions. - Wakkyweed, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2@SpeedSteamBoat
Actually, my first one played games well for the first four years, and tolerable after that. But anyway, I didn't break the bank with my new machine. It's much better than the $1400 Alienware, but only cost $200 more. I don't consider $1600 too much to pay for a laptop that can also play any game out there on high resolution. - crazyhorse13, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1I think my dream gift this year would be a $1000 newegg gift card.
Building my own machine would be so much fun. Alas, I'm a poor college student. :( - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2After couple of years I can't imagine it was much of a gaming system anymore. That's the real point. You're going to pay twice as much for less powerful hardware in a laptop virtually no matter what. Laptops just aren't for gaming.
It's one thing to buy a relatively affordable laptop with gaming capability equivalent to what the top of line stuff was a couple of years ago, but it's ridiculous to spend so much money on some bleeding edge machine because it's still going to pale in comparison to desktops a fraction of the price performance wise. That means it's going to age even worse than even your average gaming desktop.
I get that people game on the go, but I still don't think that blowing a ***** of cash on some outrageous gaming laptop is a in any way a sensible decision. You're always going to be paying a lot more for a lot less power just because it's smaller technology.
I mean, it's your money, don't get me wrong, but I just think that sort of thing is an abject waste. - Wakkyweed, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I'm arguing with you because you said this: "Anyone who spends money on a gaming laptop is an idiot."
I took exception to that idea. Nowhere did you mention that it was only the $4850 model you were referring to. - phylum, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1like "lian li" cases better, just got one today.
- Caegn, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I don't really understand some of these. The first one especially. They put in an i7 but only a 4850 graphics card? Don't get me wrong, the 4850s are pretty decent. But why are you skimping there and putting in an overpowered cpu? You can get a $60 cpu that won't bottleneck on any current game. The 4850 at higher resolutions on the other hand...
The i7s really only start to justify their costs when you start talking about video editing or other more complex programs. Which they're pretty much a necessity for. But, if you're only gaming it's really just spending a couple extra hundred simply to say you have an i7 in your system. - crazyhorse13, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Ok, there may be some situations where "just get a mac" would be acceptable advice.
Gaming is not one of them. - SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/04/2009, -1/+1@Wakkyweed: You only spent $1600? Why are you even arguing with me? I'm talking about how craptastic Alienware is and also how spending "$4,850" (from the article) on one, or on any other laptop, is positively retarded.
Where do you fit in? - Wakkyweed, on 11/04/2009, -1/+1I have to have a laptop because my job requires me to be on the move all the time. Does that mean I'm an idiot for wanting a gaming laptop?
I owned a gaming laptop from Xtreme, and it worked great for 6 years. I am now buying a nice new one from Xotic PC, and I'm very happy with the deal I got.
If you don't do your research and just buy a laptop because it comes from a big name like Alienware you are a fool. $1400 is very cheap for a true gaming laptop, and you get what you pay for. - Silverskater145, on 11/04/2009, -8/+1Just get a mac.
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