WTF is wrong with alienware...?

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
Alienware:
"No matter how much effort you put into perfecting the interior configurations of your self-built system, you could very well end up with a generic and bland off-the-shelf case that poorly reflects all your hard work. This results in you being stuck with a dull-looking system that lacks any sense of style and fails to catch anyone?s eye."

Don't know about you guys but i'm totally convinced.

Alienware does have some cool looking cases, but I think you could probobly find a nicer looking case.

Lian Li FTW!

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: shadow9d9
Jediyoda is about as ignorant as it comes... so just ignore him.. he thinks he knows everything, but knows shockingly little... there are step by step guides to make computers nowadays.. it isn't hard at ALL!

Or if you are reeeally lazy, just use a system builder like http://www.jncs.com/ ... 1/5 the price, same parts...

I remember a few years ago only a small percentage of people could build their pcs, on these forums almost everybody built their own computer.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: rubix
this alienware pc is almost as sweet as my packard bell.

where are you from? they haven't made packard bells in the US for years!

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: rubix
this alienware pc is almost as sweet as my packard bell.

where are you from? they haven't made packard bells in the US for years!

I think he's being sarcastic, I assume he is.

 

[Janet Reno]

Originally posted by: jiwq
Decided to add all those silly options to the cart that you're offered in the configurator. Includes a 30" LCD and a buncha hard drives in raid 5 or something.

Aurora? ALX System
Estimated Ship Date: 8/16/2006
$17,634.00 1
$17,634.00


Subtotal: $17,634.00

Shipping & Handling: $476.46

Tax: $1,267.73

Order Total: $19,378.19


Tax kills the deal 😛

C'mon, get this baby over 20k! What a great deal!!!

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Janet Reno

Originally posted by: jiwq
Decided to add all those silly options to the cart that you're offered in the configurator. Includes a 30" LCD and a buncha hard drives in raid 5 or something.

Aurora? ALX System
Estimated Ship Date: 8/16/2006
$17,634.00 1
$17,634.00


Subtotal: $17,634.00

Shipping & Handling: $476.46

Tax: $1,267.73

Order Total: $19,378.19


Tax kills the deal 😛

C'mon, get this baby over 20k! What a great deal!!!

I wonder if anyone has every bought a system like that.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I wanna know wtf kind of 'uber game dork' buys a $5000 system for gaming.. I swear, it's gotta be only the rich parents of spoiled brats.

A lot of Alienware and other 'super gaming' rigs can be built for half the cost.

ok...do it....
Just as I thought you can`t!!

Also you do realize that Alienware tweaks the system above and beyond what most people could do!

hahahahahahahhahahahahha oh damn.


i loved poeple like you when i had my store. really i did.

I bet a good deal of people on ATOT can build something as good as Alienware for far cheaper. hell i know i could.

but don't get me wrong. i am not against them. they fill a good market. to people that want a fast top notch computer and who have the money to burn. to be honest if i had $5k to blow on one i might do it to save the trouble of ordering parts, put them together and hope part is not a RMA. blah.

but i would rather spend $2-3k and build it myself heh

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I wanna know wtf kind of 'uber game dork' buys a $5000 system for gaming.. I swear, it's gotta be only the rich parents of spoiled brats.

ALL of Alienware and other 'super gaming' rigs can be built for a third ofthe cost.

Fixed.

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
Alienware:
"No matter how much effort you put into perfecting the interior configurations of your self-built system, you could very well end up with a generic and bland off-the-shelf case that poorly reflects all your hard work. This results in you being stuck with a dull-looking system that lacks any sense of style and fails to catch anyone?s eye."

Don't know about you guys but i'm totally convinced.

Alienware does have some cool looking cases, but I think you could probobly find a nicer looking case.

Lian Li FTW!

Roger that, or even THERMALTAKE.

 

[Sentinel]

Somehow they still make money... ... ...

 

[jonessoda]

Originally posted by: ruffilb

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
Alienware:
"No matter how much effort you put into perfecting the interior configurations of your self-built system, you could very well end up with a generic and bland off-the-shelf case that poorly reflects all your hard work. This results in you being stuck with a dull-looking system that lacks any sense of style and fails to catch anyone?s eye."

Don't know about you guys but i'm totally convinced.

Alienware does have some cool looking cases, but I think you could probobly find a nicer looking case.

Lian Li FTW!

Roger that, or even THERMALTAKE.

Oh, yeah. I Lo-o-ove the way my piano-black ThermalTake Soprano looks. Especially in the dark, its interior lit up just faintly by the LEDs in the TT Blue Orb II CPU cooler.

That sounded... freaky.

I could make any system Alienware offers, cheaper. Everything except the customer support and the warranty. Even the system-restore software can be accomplished with something along the lines of Ghost or TrueImage.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
yes voodoo and alienware do overprice their computer. OTOH, if you want conroe now, only Flacon Northwest and Velocity Micro offer systems. and frankly, even this $899 conroe based system outperforms most current computers with high end cpu's. stick in a better graphic card and you're set.

Too bad that computer isn't available yet! Their page says

"Order your new Velocity Micro Intel® Core? 2 Extreme or Intel® Core? 2 Duo processor-based system on July 27th ? Intel?s global launch day! " 🙂

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I wanna know wtf kind of 'uber game dork' buys a $5000 system for gaming.. I swear, it's gotta be only the rich parents of spoiled brats.

A lot of Alienware and other 'super gaming' rigs can be built for half the cost.

ok...do it....
Just as I thought you can`t!!

Also you do realize that Alienware tweaks the system above and beyond what most people could do!

JEDIYoda: Proving he doesn't know s**t about s**t since 2005!

- M4H

:laugh:

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
This is what I love about Alienware, things like this:
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this is better.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
yes voodoo and alienware do overprice their computer. OTOH, if you want conroe now, only Flacon Northwest and Velocity Micro offer systems. and frankly, even this $899 conroe based system outperforms most current computers with high end cpu's. stick in a better graphic card and you're set.

Too bad that computer isn't available yet! Their page says

"Order your new Velocity Micro Intel® Core? 2 Extreme or Intel® Core? 2 Duo processor-based system on July 27th ? Intel?s global launch day! " 🙂

Are Intel's price cuts July 27th too?

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Smartazz
This is what I love about Alienware, things like this:
Text

this is better.

lol, I know. I figured out my system would cost around $2500 if I bought it from them, it'll cost me less than half of that to build it myself, and honestly, what's more rewarding, a prebuilt system or one you built yourself.

 

[Baked]

They're really good at selling overpriced sh!t to stupid people?

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
This is what I love about Alienware, things like this:
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personally, I think alienware's systems, even their "professional workstations" look like toys-r-us crud. No client who knew anything would take you seriously with one of those.

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
yes voodoo and alienware do overprice their computer. OTOH, if you want conroe now, only Flacon Northwest and Velocity Micro offer systems. and frankly, even this $899 conroe based system outperforms most current computers with high end cpu's. stick in a better graphic card and you're set.

Too bad that computer isn't available yet! Their page says

"Order your new Velocity Micro Intel® Core? 2 Extreme or Intel® Core? 2 Duo processor-based system on July 27th ? Intel?s global launch day! " 🙂

Are Intel's price cuts July 27th too?

AMDs are on the 27th.

 

[oogabooga]

I actually went to new egg, and put in every part for a high end pc (i think it was the Falcon-NW Super rig - yes I was that bored one day) and the total per PC (w/out monitor) came to around 4.0k. The Falcon with 30in Monitor costs 7k.

So i guess per rig they make ~1k profit? That's pretty tidy, I wonder how many they sell a month.

 

[0roo0roo]

eh people buy stuff like ferraris. how many hp per buck is that? and none of them come with jessica alba.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
eh people buy stuff like ferraris. how many hp per buck is that? and none of them come with jessica alba.

Well a Ferrari is a status symbol, who the fvck cares if you own an Alienware ALX?

 

[siameseplease]

Originally posted by: Ulfhednar

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: brxndxn
I wanna know wtf kind of 'uber game dork' buys a $5000 system for gaming.. I swear, it's gotta be only the rich parents of spoiled brats.

A lot of Alienware and other 'super gaming' rigs can be built for half the cost.

ok...do it....
Just as I thought you can`t!!

Also you do realize that Alienware tweaks the system above and beyond what most people could do!

I, and many other obsessive computer hardware enthusiasts like myself, could build PCs a lot better than Alienware systems for a lot less money that could be tweaked and overclocked much further.

Are you just a bitter Alienware owner trying to justify his being ripped-off, I mean, purchase?

OMGZ COOL LOOK!NG CASELLO!LO!!!1one

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
eh people buy stuff like ferraris. how many hp per buck is that? and none of them come with jessica alba.

Because you actually need a brain to design/engineer a Ferrari and skills to put one together?

 

[RallyMaster]

WTF is wrong w/ Alienware? Dell owns it. We don't like Dell. And we like doing things ourselves. The rest of the population would LOVE to have an Alienware even though they'll never push the computer that far.