Quote Originally Posted by boost
whatever you do, do not buy alienware. Overpriced, overpriced, overpriced.
Lol. I disagree. You get the best of all products, and those products are optimized, both by programming standards and they are sometimes the hardware itself altered in order to optomize the way the computer will play videogames.

I had a buddy buy a laptop from alienware 2 years before I bought my computer. The 2 grand he dropped on his laptop versus the 2 grand I dropped on my PC Should have meant my computer was lightyears ahead of his right? I built my computer from scratch with some pretty serious components, and I know my way around a box.

My computer beat his laptop at every measure benchmark imaginable, until we put the computer under the stress of playing the newest videogames on the market.

When we were playing HL2 on both computers with the effects turned all the way up, my brand new rig couldn't keep up with his 2 year old laptop.

That's the problem though, it's optimized for playing videogames, and not for anything else. Would I be willing to drop 3k on a rig to play videogames? Not any more. Back then.. oh god yes.

They play videogames like it's their job, and they do it well far longer than the lifetime of most other computers. They do everything else with the same expectations you'd get out of a dell you buy at bestbuy for a grand.