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+Look At My AlienWear Schematics+
Nikaido:
--- Quote from: Sion4000 on January 27, 2010, 07:23:49 AM ---For the record you're much better off building your own.
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I was looking at the specs of a computer I wanted. Then I looked at the price of the parts themselves. The full pre-assembled desktop was $3,200US and the all the parts brought separately totaled to $1,800US (including the W7 professional OEM).
fohfoh:
rat, I'm looking at that Alienware (I just realized the OP spelled the name in the thread wrong) and it's fucking ugly. Most of what I've seen of them are pretty ugly pieces of things.
Voodoo has better aesthetics imo. Same as Sony.
iindigo:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on January 28, 2010, 12:30:09 AM ---rat, I'm looking at that Alienware (I just realized the OP spelled the name in the thread wrong) and it's fucking ugly. Most of what I've seen of them are pretty ugly pieces of things.
Voodoo has better aesthetics imo. Same as Sony.
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Voodoo machines indeed look nice, but beware of them. One of my previous dormmates had one and its heat issues fried her RAM twice in a row. While the little pre-boot Linux build they include is nice, as far as I could see it makes it impossible to get into the machine's BIOS (I was trying to diagnose the problem) which is massively limiting.
mgz:
voodoo pc like alienware is garbage now. They used to be privately owned, and are now owned by HP/Compaq.
Alienware used to be great when sager was building their laptops. Since dell has owned them they have been rubbish.
Sion4000:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on January 27, 2010, 10:24:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: Slysoft on January 27, 2010, 02:55:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on January 27, 2010, 07:41:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sion4000 on January 27, 2010, 07:23:49 AM ---For the record you're much better off building your own.
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Laptop?
Uh....
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http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-barebone-laptops-ct-95_51_174.html
?
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Customizing one yourself is one thing. Building your own is another.
But I guess I just interpreted what he said wrong.
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All you need barebones kit (case and motherboard), processor, ram, hard drive, disk drive, video card, and wifi adapter. You can find instructions to put them together all over the web.
The only thing is laptop components can be hard to find, but still cheaper than alienware and you'll end up with a better rig. I'd try Newegg for parts.
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