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NotReallySureWhatGoesHere
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 Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:05 am Post subject: Is Alienware worth the price? |
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I don't know much about hardware and I was just wondering if what you're paying for is worth its components in an Alienware computer. 
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Phox
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| No. Alienware sells their computers for easily twice as much much money as the components would cost individually. Instead, you should buy the parts off http://www.newegg.com/ and build a computer that is just as good (or exactly the same, if you so desire) for much less.
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SF
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you're paying for style in an alienware pc, not performance. buy a case that has glowing lights and shit and you've got an alienware for half the price.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| You're also paying for a labor-inclusive warranty, but it's still not worth the extra $1000.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| Cryoma wrote: | | You're also paying for a labor-inclusive warranty, but it's still not worth the extra $1000. |
Not when you can get a warranty per part rather than the whole thing at once. RMA is easier if its only 1 piece.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | | You're also paying for a labor-inclusive warranty, but it's still not worth the extra $1000. |
Not when you can get a warranty per part rather than the whole thing at once. RMA is easier if its only 1 piece. |
Part-per-part does not include labor was my point.
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Why would you even ask if Alienware is worth it? Their laptops are nice, however, since it's really hard to make a laptop from parts.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:15 am Post subject: |
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on desktops not really.
on laptops is totally worth it.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| gogodr wrote: | on desktops not really.
on laptops is totally worth it. |
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Hero
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Cryoma wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | | You're also paying for a labor-inclusive warranty, but it's still not worth the extra $1000. |
Not when you can get a warranty per part rather than the whole thing at once. RMA is easier if its only 1 piece. |
Part-per-part does not include labor was my point. |
Yea it does. It says labor on the warrant info on a lot of new egg parts.
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Their laptops are terrible. All you are paying for is the 'snazzy' case. You can get the same system(s) for half the price going with a simple case.
Either way, no they are not worth the cost.
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| MSI laptops hells yeah
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| Alienware is the Windows equivalent of Apple computers. You pay for the look, not the performance.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| Cryoma wrote: | | Hero wrote: | | Cryoma wrote: | | You're also paying for a labor-inclusive warranty, but it's still not worth the extra $1000. |
Not when you can get a warranty per part rather than the whole thing at once. RMA is easier if its only 1 piece. |
Part-per-part does not include labor was my point. |
You are your own labor when building a pc. You get sent a new piece and you put it on. Whats the problem there?
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