+Look At My AlienWear Schematics+

[fohfoh]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

Laptop?

Uh....

[Slysoft]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

Laptop?

Uh....

http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-barebone-laptops-ct-95_51_174.html

?

[fohfoh]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

Laptop?

Uh....

http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-barebone-laptops-ct-95_51_174.html

?

Customizing one yourself is one thing. Building your own is another.

But I guess I just interpreted what he said wrong.

[Natheria]

He called in Dell...

And there's the problem right there. 

just an FYI --- dell = alienware they bought them years back

Yeah i know, i was just pointing out when Alienware started to go down hill. 

[rathoriel]

Many years ago I got a Alienware m9700 laptop, they were introducing the m9750 at the time so they had almost clearance sales on them. I got the base processor with dual graphics chips for SLI I got the 1440x900 screen, i went with the cheapest memory because it was cheaper to max the memory from newegg and save a few hundred dollars (same with the hard drive). I looked around at alot of different companies at the time and I wanted a desktop replacement type laptop. I can play crysis fine at medium detail on it, and the looks of it turns heads and gets lots of comments. But there are lots of people who like to bash them but I still love the laptop and have no regrets. I paid about $2200 w/tax and shipping and the upgrades i did to it were only a few hundred more.

I also looked at sager notebooks here http://www.powernotebooks.com/ but i thought it to be a little risky (I could be wrong)

-edit. a few picts

[Nikaido]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

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]

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.

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]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

Laptop?

Uh....

http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-barebone-laptops-ct-95_51_174.html

?

Customizing one yourself is one thing. Building your own is another.

But I guess I just interpreted what he said wrong.

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.

[fohfoh]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

Laptop?

Uh....

http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-barebone-laptops-ct-95_51_174.html

?

Customizing one yourself is one thing. Building your own is another.

But I guess I just interpreted what he said wrong.

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.

Wouldn't the mobo/case combo still mandate a large portion of your purchases since A: They must work with the mobo and B: Fit into the correct spot (differing sizes of some disc drives and keyboard) Everything else except for the proc and the vid card seems pretty standard stuff though.

[Sion4000]

For the record you're much better off building your own.

Laptop?

Uh....

http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-barebone-laptops-ct-95_51_174.html

?

Customizing one yourself is one thing. Building your own is another.

But I guess I just interpreted what he said wrong.

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.

Wouldn't the mobo/case combo still mandate a large portion of your purchases since A: They must work with the mobo and B: Fit into the correct spot (differing sizes of some disc drives and keyboard) Everything else except for the proc and the vid card seems pretty standard stuff though.

By barebones kit i meant something like this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856172010
It has the case/motherboard/screen/keyboard already put together all you have to do is add all the other components.