ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!

Scansion · #1 10-08-2007, 09:22 PM

Ok so I have recently acquired a 5.3k gift certificate for alienware.com. My friend sold it to me for a ridiculous price that I couldn't pass up so I decided to take it off him and get myself a new laptop.

Ok, I'm going to get the Area-51 m9750 and I'm going to be playing poker as well as some games like Warcraft III.

The customization page is here. Please let me know your thoughts on what I should get as I'm not exactly computer savvy, but I'm willing to spend top dollar for things like fast startup speed, and no freezing up or anything. For example, should I get a solid-state drive? Just let me know what you think, and if you have the time to go ahead and do an entire customization, with a 5.3k budget in mind, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys!

Thanir · #2 10-08-2007, 09:40 PM

Well with 5.3k you can basically max out the processor, ram, vid card and everything else and still come under the 5.3k.

The solid state drives seem like a waste to me. If you are that worried about losing data you could buy an external hdd to backup info, or burn it on to a dvd.

Scansion · #3 10-08-2007, 11:37 PM

I've read that it speeds up everything as well, as well as maxing out battery life as well as keeping the computer cool. Pretty attractive to me. But should I just max out the processor, ram, dual vid. cards, and go for a different hard drive?

TomHimself · #4 10-09-2007, 12:45 AM

why not just resell the gift certificate for profit?

sonneti · #5 10-09-2007, 08:57 AM

A buddy of mine won an alienware laptop at a gaming convention he got it 8 months later with a broken water cooling system. They didn't even fix it for him!!

Beavis68 · #6 10-09-2007, 11:58 AM

PC World magazine had some kickass Alienware laptop for 4,700. That and a good monitor would do the trick.

Personally, I would spend about 2k on a lap top, 2k on a desktop and the rest on monitors.

funkyworms · #7 10-09-2007, 06:14 PM

I would spend about 2k on a desktop and the rest on monitors.

Thanir · #8 10-09-2007, 07:10 PM

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Scansion · #9 10-09-2007, 09:33 PM

I travel a good bit. I'm thinking I want to just use this as a desktop replacement.

Josem · #10 10-09-2007, 10:04 PM

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Personally, I would spend about 2.5k on a lap top with dual link dvi, 1k on a 30" monitor, and the rest on a number of desktops for datamining 24/7

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