rag, his laptop beat your desktop for an obvious reason. It was running a lower resolution. Maxed resolution on a laptop is always going to be lower than maxed resolution on a desktop, unless youre running a desktop monitor from the stoneages.

The test was unscientific, and its results prove nothing.

also, Im pretty sure you are wrong about alienware doing any sort of modding to hardware short of maybe modding the drivers (which would be software actually) and Im pretty sure they dont do that either. They would be fools to resolder anything. I mean seriously.. you do realize this would void any manufacturer warranty, making them soley responsible when anything and everything goes wrong?