Alienware PC's

[wstokeley]

Forgive me if we've already had a similar topic in the same vein, but Alienware distribute these so called

"gamers' PC's", and it strikes me that, although the spec is very good, Its a lot of money for what it is. I belive I could build the same rig at home for less... Although it can be argued that their cases look good, give me performance and value anytime.

Does anybody agree with me? are they overpriced and overrated?

the adverts for them seem to be everywhere at the moment...

[kairon]

Yes, they are overpriced. But they look nice, and also some people might not want to build their own computer.

[Sn00pY]

i agree with you too...

Overpriced Sexy Case...Wooop Deeeee Doooooooooooo!!!!

although yeah i would buy one if i had the CaSHMoNEY!

[DsnBehind]

The cases are dead sexy. :D

[Joel]

Moved here

[lostspyder]

WAY too overpriced. Theire not even realy that great, for what your paying for. I mean their good, but not that good. There cases are sexy tho :)

i mean look at this

Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz

512MB DDR SDRAM PC-3200

120GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128MB

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

for $ 1,818

check this out P4 3.2 ht 400$

ic7-max3 200$

1 gig ddr 433 300$

nice case + PS 200$

sata raid drives 2x160 gig 300$

SB card 100$

9800 pro 400$

XP pro 100$

total 1900$

same price as the alienware and will WAY outpreform it. Its even a very morderate estimate.

Edited November 5, 2003 by lostspyder

[xp1ode]

yep TOO overpriced and the cases i dont think are very appealing, but thats just me :D , those alien looking cases i dont like.

[~Bull}{Dog~]

I'm yet to see one of their cases which I like.. The horrible green colour and the big alien eyes look terrible..

But yeah, I see Alienware no different than Dell, Time or Gateway. Its all the same prebuilt cack to me.

[uber-pea]

i like them.

you get good specs

nice case

support and warranty

if you dont want the hastle and the chance of something going wrong when building your own, but still want a powerful machine Alienware is the place to go :ninja: :cool: :ninja: :D

p.s. if i had the money i would buy one just for the case! :p

[nekrosoft13]

overprices

plastic

heavy

not optimized

stay away!

if you got allot of money and want a good pc, and you are not bright enough to make one your self

then go with

voodoo

or

falcon

alienware is overhyped overpriced heavy plastic ****

[Homer]

overpriced plies of crap!

[liar2]

i'd have to agree. many people think that alienware is so godly. well, they are just overpriced. i could build one for about half the price with the same specs. and the new cases are ugly anyways. who wants to pay that much for a pc that isn't optimized? i sure as hell wouldn't.

[Homer]

If ya really want a prebuilt gaming comp.... http://voodoopc.com they own aliencrap 50x over.

[Rivers]

funny that.. I was just looking here http://www.armadacomputers.co.uk at making up a comp before I checked neowin.

what do you ppl think?

just had a quote via e-mail from them...

Stylish black and silver case with front USB2

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Processor

MSI Motherboard

with 6 USB2 ports, 8 x AGP, 10/100 ADSL ready network port

512MB Crucial PC2700 DDR333 Memory

Optional onboard 5.1 soundblaster compatible surround sound

128Mb Geforce 4 Graphics (AGP available)

80 Gigabyte 7200 ATA 133 Hard Drive

3.5 Inch floppy Drive

Multimedia keyboard and mouse

Stereo speakers

for ?389 including VAT

I aint needing the keyboard or mouse but they dont seem to take no for an answer on that one lol :laugh::

[Rivers]

I take it no one cares then? lol :rolleyes:

fine I'm off back to bed.. :p

[Premgenius]

I like thier cases but i would not buy one

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Agreed, sweet cases, but in the end it's an overpriced PC.

[wstokeley]

Forgive me if we have already had a thread in a a similar vein, but:

Sure, alienware pcs have a good spec, but they seem to be a lot of money for what you get. I think I could set up the same style rig for over $100 cheaper. At least.

The adverts seem to be everywhere for them at the moment.

What do we think? value for money or overpriced tat?

[sethrd]

I think you pay a lot more then what they are worth. My friend has an Alienware laptop, and he has had to return it a few times due to problems. The cooling on it it horrible, and the actually melted the hard drive in it!

[sgtLENIN]

Its a reason you pay more: the computers look cool. On the other hand, is it worth it?

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

man - those alienware have no style. i guess if you are buying for kids its ok... but why spend so much money then.

for yourself you can make way better cool looking stylish powerfull system for the same money.

(well i guess nearly everyone has the same point about the price - but those cases really are ugly to me and i had to share that.... :x )

[Homer]

Theres a thread like this going allready in the hardware section :rofl:

Merging time!

[wstokeley]

Personally, I'd choose value over style any day. I can't belive a hard drive melted. Mind you, a laptop is NOT a games system (sorry all laptop gamers).

[aaron901]

sure you can build the same computer for less, but the fact is that the Alienware looks much better than yours. so don't bitch about it being overpriced. we value thing very differently. i'd choose both style and performance over value anyday.

Edited November 5, 2003 by aaron901

[Krux]

ummmm have you seen there new cases?..... they look like mutated reject swamp creatures there ugly as hell and taller then my 21" monitor with a center channel on top of it there the most god awefull looking computers IVE ever seen, so basically your paying for the name. and the fact that and alienware looks "better" then a normal box...... well 50 bucks and a couple links to some mod sites and you solved that problem and saved a grand.