Alienware vs Asus Gaming Laptop ?

[Xtras]

Unless you had some kind of fantastic inside discount, I don't see that laptop going for $380 dollars even on the best of sales. Else why would anybody buy anything else lol.

I work at the store. It was a display model and my boss took off $250

I get deals like this all the time

Haha, yeah. Inside discounts are always the best. That particular example is especially fantastic.

P.S. I think we lost our OP. Did you come to a decision?

[kitamesume]

i think he lost his alienware, his dad changed his mind about giving the alienware to him and he was grounded for a month because he did something bad =D kidding.

anyway, alienwares are still better than local laptops that you get for 300$, i dont even think thats a laptop anymore but a netbook. so keeping it wont do you bad, just reformat the OS clean and install only the necessary files.

buying anything more expensive than the alienware would do you worse than keeping the alienware, because you`d pay a greater price just to get a few more percent of performance increase, something like buying an i5 for 600$ and buying an i7 for 1200$ but the difference is miniscule(about 50% average performance difference for 100% more to pay).

[Zalamander]

I bought the ASUS G73 i5 version this fall really happy with its performance.

Consider I picked between i5 dual core 2.4GHz and 50% more expensive i7 1.6GHz I think you gain more gaming performance and get more for the money since many games doesnt make use of many cores like i7 4 cores.

[Tatsujin]

I just bought a HP laptop there was cheap but has plenty of power

CPU: Intel i7 720QM 1.8GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3
GPU: ATI 5650 1GB DDR3
HDD: 640GB
SCREEN: 15.6

Price $380

Are you sure for 380? ... Seriously? The specs on it are a serious kick. Where did you buy it from?!

[kitamesume]

thats what we're on an uproar about, a seriously cheap i7 with monster specs for 380$.

how cheap do you guys get your computers for? desktop or laptop, i got my i3 2100 for 120$(processor only) just 2days ago and cheapest mobo i found that is decent(lga1155 Asrock H67M MB B3) was already 100$, the next cheapest was 150$(lga1155 Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3). for a laptop an "Acer - eMD730-332G25Mn" is about 611$, thats an old i3 without any GPU which is bull, thats why i`d love to have that i7 for 380$. Note:Cheapest Notebook(not even a decent laptop) you could get here is 300$ already.

[Lupin]

What part of his earlier post didn't you guy's read?

I work at the store. It was a display model and my boss took off $250

I get deals like this all the time

[xShadow]

What part of his earlier post didn't you guy's read?

I work at the store. It was a display model and my boss took off $250

I get deals like this all the time

The Amazon link he provided had it priced at 850 dollars; Newegg has it priced even higher. That's a 470 dollar discount, not 250 dollar discount. I would assume that's why people are confused.

So, it had to have been 220 dollars off of the original price tag before he applied a 250 dollar display model discount. That's a 25.9% initial price reduction. Considering he may have rounded numbers on his end or something of the sort, that means a ~25% price reduction just for working there (where do you work, srsly?!), and then a further 250 dollar reduction for the display model? That's a total of 55.3% off the ticketed price.

That's pretty ridiculous. Almost makes me wonder why I'm bothering with this college.

[Lupin]

It was probably at dealer's price then 250$ was slashed off.

Don't employees get some discount?

[fohfoh]

It was probably at dealer's price then 250$ was slashed off.

Don't employees get some discount?

He usually gets ridiculous shit like, "Open box", "Missing parts", "Random scratch", "Employee discount" and "Clearance" discounts. Oh... all at once as well.

[NaRu]

What part of his earlier post didn't you guy's read?

I work at the store. It was a display model and my boss took off $250

I get deals like this all the time

The Amazon link he provided had it priced at 850 dollars; Newegg has it priced even higher. That's a 470 dollar discount, not 250 dollar discount. I would assume that's why people are confused.

So, it had to have been 220 dollars off of the original price tag before he applied a 250 dollar display model discount. That's a 25.9% initial price reduction. Considering he may have rounded numbers on his end or something of the sort, that means a ~25% price reduction just for working there (where do you work, srsly?!), and then a further 250 dollar reduction for the display model? That's a total of 55.3% off the ticketed price.

That's pretty ridiculous. Almost makes me wonder why I'm bothering with this college.

I work at BJs Whole sale Club.

[NaRu]

I have bought a 4GB Xbox 360 for $80 (Display model, Black Friday Sale, plus coupon)

[kitamesume]

you're a discount god 

[NaRu]

I wish my store sells computer parts then I would never stop working there

[Freedom Kira]

You should go work at Newegg if you like computer parts dealers.

[kitamesume]

amazon is nice too, from time to time they turn their shop into a stock clearance site, everything shoots down to 10%-50% off(i`ve seen 90% off deals too) on selected items.

[maxxjulie]

i've been looking into getting my first laptop lately and i've mostly found that asus is good quality and alienware is overrated as far as gaming machines go.  sager/clevo custom built laptops are also very good.  dell xps are very good spec wise, but have a cheap plastic build quality.  like sitting inside a ford mustang.  macbook pro's have a high quality build to them, but are really expensive and a different operating system i'm not familiar with.  the lenovo x220 is the best small/light/powerful and well built laptop you can buy with an ips screen as an option as well, but the screen is only 12.5 inches.  what I would like is something like the mac air, but with a 14-15 inch screen, cheaper, and more powerful like the lenovo x220.  it doesn't exist.

[kitamesume]

what is your laptop's purpose anyway? if its just daily stuffs and not much gaming, find a laptop with AMD E350, it`ll fit your daily uses, it can game a few titles too if the res is below 1600x900, preferably 1366x768.

if its a gaming laptop, then what you`ll need first is to find out how high the quality settings do you need to play, the more quality you need the more juice you`ll need to invest to.