[gabehabe]

I'm looking into getting myself a nice laptop. I'm thinking Alienware is my best bet. I've got the order page open now, looking at all the customisation. I've basically just gone for the Alienware Area-51 m15x with a 500GB HDD and the carry case.

Total price: £1,368.50 (~$2,000)

I really don't know if I want to spend that much on a laptop, but I've wanted an Alienware lappy for ages.

Thoughts/suggestions?

EDIT:
Alternatively, I have to admit that something with specs like these at such a low price is pretty impressive. But I don't know if I'd trust ebay for a big buy.

[KYA]

HAHAHAHAHA overpriced The only reason to get one would to play games on it, however,m some games don't support laptop graphics chipsets, so its hit or miss sometimes

I wouldn't, but its your $$

I feel the same way about alienware laptops as I do about Apple computers.

This post has been edited by KYA: 08 January 2009 - 01:21 PM

[GWatt]

Gaming laptops are a bad idea. Get one that satisfies your needs for when you can't be at home. If your needs aren't that pressing then spend that money to buy a good desktop computer. For that money you could build something pretty fancy.

[no2pencil]

gabehabe, on 8 Jan, 2009 - 02:07 PM, said:

I'm thinking Alienware is my best bet
....
I really don't know if I want to spend that much on a laptop
...

Alienware is about a good as it gets, for busting the bank.

[Channy]

Alienware was bought out recently, wasn't it? Ah yes...Dell now owns them. Personally I'd say thanks but no thanks, for the money I'd build a mid-sized tower system to go LANing. Right now I've got a monster of a tower that is a pain to lug...but that's what my husband is for

[fuzzylunkinz]

I'm fairly certain you could get a Dell laptop with the same specs but without the Alienware prettiness.

EDIT:
At a lower price.

This post has been edited by fuzzylunkinz: 08 January 2009 - 03:50 PM

[gabehabe]

Thanks for the advice. I'm honestly pretty surprised that everyone's badmouthed Alienware, I thought they were pretty popular.

I'm looking on play.com at their stuff now, they've got some pretty awesome bargains. To be honest, I'll probably have to leave it a few months before making a final decision, because I also need to get some transport. (DAMN BUS TIMETABLE CHANGED AND COSTS ME 2 HOURS OF MY DAY!)

Oh, and I would get a desktop PC, but I really have no room for it. So I'm looking to get a pretty high-end laptop that's gonna last a good few years [until I get my own place] then I'll be building my own desktop computer.

[fuzzylunkinz]

I didn't badmouth Alienware before it got bought out by Dell .

[ayman_mastermind]

For me, there is no difference between mac and alien ware, they are pretty the same(good for nothing) and costly too...

[MorphiusFaydal]

I'll admit Macs are slightly overpriced, but nowhere near as bad as Alienware. Or as bad as they were even a few years ago.

[emortal]

High end notebooks tend to run high temps, and use up alot of juice, so battery is a concern.
high temps/overheating problems, so as for it lasting a long time im not so sure.

Alienware are definitely top spec, 9800gt graphics is very adequate for playing games

I was considering one myself. I finally decided against a high end notebook.
I built a minitower (again space limitation) shuttle barebones
which is pretty high spec and got a MSI Windbook for travelling
(swapped out the hard drive for an OCZ 60GB SSD) battery now lasts 4 hours, and it runs
much faster with the SSD hard drive installed - but of course no games on that baby.

So I kind of got the best of both worlds for alot less than the cost of the alienware.
Something to consider if budget of the alienware scares you a bit.

Of course if u want games on the go, its really hard to beat those Alienware specs.
Otherwise if not primarily for games dont bother with it.

Final note:
I saw some people dissing the mac as worthless on this thread, the macbook pro is actually a fantastic notebook
(I know I set one up for a client to run OSX and Vista). and at about 600 GBP in Japan
so not outrageously expensive. And it actually runs Vista faster than alot of similarly priced
"PC" notebooks.