Alienware Launches PC That’s Disguised as a Console
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Good design, I must admit.
[QUOTE=Shazmind;34276308]Disregard everything, it's an alienware
Warned my freind soooo much, bought one anyways. 1 Week in, BSOD, overheating in his small clustered room, I opened it up and took a look and everything was poorly and loosley installed, tried to fix it but it became a paperweight after a few months, support ignored us.[/QUOTE]
i've had an alienware for 6 years, still runs games on close to max or high settings. it came with a 9800gx2 and when that broke i got an 8800gtx for free. that's the only problem i've ever had with mine, the parts are very well installed and cable management is a dream.
I assume that the GPU is soldered on.
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[QUOTE=The golden;34276739]I also imagine this thing overheats like a bitch. These ultra-compact PC's are all fine and good and stuff, but what happens when you try to do performance gaming on them?[/QUOTE]
It probably doesn't overheat surprisingly enough. The M11x didn't when everyone thought it would. I assume they take cooling seriously now a days.
I'm sure it's been said before by now, but I'll say it anyways.
Now we need a company that isn't Alienware / Dell to do the same thing, only make it a lot cheaper with better specs.
:v:
It reminds me of those dinky little tiny Pentium 4 Dell systems that used to be made.
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Wireless a? Alienware, do you know how fucking old that standard is?
[QUOTE=MIPS;34276949]Wireless a? Alienware, do you know how fucking old that standard is?[/QUOTE]
As long as it doesn't bring up the price or interfere with the other standards in some fashion, I see absolutely no problems with this.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34275326]They're a business. They sell to profit. If you don't care for their prices don't buy their product instead of bitching.[/QUOTE]
No I'm using my power as a consumer to tell them to lower their prices and become more competitive because otherwise they can burn in hell
I want this.
[QUOTE=MIPS;34276949]It reminds me of those dinky little tiny Pentium 4 Dell systems that used to be made.
Wireless a? Alienware, do you know how fucking old that standard is?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure all modern wireless cards still support Wireless A despite the fact its so old. I know the one in my laptop does and its just a few months old.
So small form factor is new now?
[QUOTE=Demache;34277270]I'm pretty sure all modern wireless cards still support Wireless A despite the fact its so old. I know the one in my laptop does and its just a few months old.[/QUOTE]
I guess it's cheap enough now to impliment it for no real reason.
Not commenting on the pricing/overpricing of Alienware products, but you have to admit, their cases and designs look pretty cool.
So from what I take of it, the computer simulates the overheating of old X-Box 360s without the RRoD?
If I were obscenely rich I'd probably get one just for LAN Party purposes. I hate lugging my mid-tower around, so I could see why someone would use this. Honestly though, unless you're constantly Lanning or moving around I don't see the point in buying this. $700 isn't worth the physical exertion I use to move my tower to a different location.
With that kind of money you can make yourself a more capable mATX oriented PC of the same size.
However, if the price is fixed, you do get a deal however. There's a nice bluray drive in there.
Lets consolidate facts and make a conclusion so we stop bitching:
1. Its an OK price (for alien ware) but falls short when compared to the price of custom made PCs with the same specs.
2. Case is tiny, PSU is tiny, small chance of putting in your own hardware without gutting the thing and spending more on top of the already hefty price tag.
3. Chances are it'll overheat alot, but noone knows because noone here actually has this thing.
4. Compact, light, and stylish, also apparently great for LAN parties.
5. Great specs for such a small machine.
Conclusion:
If you have the technical know-how and can build your own PC, then do it and skip this.
If you have money to burn, don't feel like building a PC, or don't know how to, then consider buying this.
Done.
Eh, alienwares are a bit like ferraris, You could get MUCH better gas mileage for much cheaper, And faster speed, better build quality. But they are just nice.
Use 10 at once, trip your circuit breaker.
I actually have an Alienware desktop PC (Aurora) and it's nice. Haven't broken down on me or overheated and I've had it for soon a year. But as everyone knows, it's horribly overpriced for the hardware inside it. I was able to get my Aurora a lot off which is the sole purpose of why I'd like one (it was actually worth it), so I'm all good. They have some pretty fine build quality.
This would become handy for LAN gaming, small, neat and relatively leight weight. Nice design and a pretty reasonable price, which is a first for Alienware really. Good job this time, Alienware.
Not worth it, the laptop I bought half a year ago got better specs for not much more
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;34275326]They're a business. They sell to profit. If you don't care for their prices don't buy their product instead of bitching.[/QUOTE]
Make a product that is worth it.
It looks so tiny.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;34275783]It's always been one of my dreams to build a tiny microATX computer that runs on Linux that is designed to run emulators so I can have a sort of a retro gaming console and hook it up to my TV.[/QUOTE]
I wish my computer was console sized, I have a really old alien ware case, shits big.
"Powerful NVIDIA Graphics Card Options" doesn't mean anything considering they're only using 555s as the top choice
for most people, that's a pretty powerful GPU
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it's got pretty good specs for its size
but ahahaha holy shit that power supply
Reminds me of those FragBox computers.
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for my birthday I'm gonna build a computer
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that's pretty cool actually
need to up the specs (240w wouldn't power the lighbulbs behind my fans alienware), but the concept is great imo
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