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ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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! |
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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. |
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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?
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
why not just resell the gift certificate for profit?
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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!!
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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. |
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
I would spend about 2k on a desktop and the rest on monitors.
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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Personally, I would spend about 2k on a lap top, 2k on a desktop and the rest on monitors. [/ QUOTE ] |
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
I travel a good bit. I'm thinking I want to just use this as a desktop replacement.
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Re: ALIENWARE notebook: help me customize!
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[ QUOTE ] 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 [/ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] |
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