• Registered: 2004-03-10
  • Posts: 896

Topic: Laptop Advice Plz

Im heading out to college soon and ill be needing a laptop. I was thinking about getting one of these.

http://www.alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/area-51_m5550.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AREA51M5550-AB&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT&tag=1

Ill be using it for Gaming and college. I just wanted to hear your opinions on it.



The extras im putting on it are:

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 2.0GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
256MB NVidia  GeForce? Go 7600
Alienware  Respawn Recovery Kit

Total including taxes and shipping comes out to  $1,903.04.
Is it worth it ?     

MisfitFiend- 70 Blood Elf Hunter- Boulderfist
  • hubris
  • 5-Piece Chicken Dinner
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2002-09-23
  • Posts: 6,305

Re: Laptop Advice Plz

i got through college fine w/o a laptop, so unless your desktop is total crap I'm gonna vote getting a laptop just because you're going to college isn't worth it no matter the value

Laugh hard it's a long way to the bank.
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8889/9854781fs8.jpg

hubris's Website

3 Reply by Ashum

  • Registered: 2006-01-13
  • Posts: 258

Re: Laptop Advice Plz

alienware is overpriced.
here is basically the same shit you got goin there
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/ntbkx57800.asp?v=d , but a faster processor for 300 less dollars....they have cheaper notebooks available as well...i bought a desktop from these guys a year back and its pretty badass, and was much cheaper than what alienware had to offer

  • Registered: 2007-02-25
  • Posts: 1,148

Re: Laptop Advice Plz

Alienware is most definitely overpriced. You pay for the brand though. My friend has an alienware desktop from 4 years ago and hasn't had to upgrade anything on it and runs everything he plays at full settings so I can't fault their performance. I do think that you would be better off going for a company like the one Ashum posted.

  • From: NJ
  • Registered: 2002-08-01
  • Posts: 8,085

Re: Laptop Advice Plz

I have a desktop at college... everyone I know for a laptop could be doing the same thing with a desktop. It isn't worth it.

  • Registered: 2004-02-07
  • Posts: 2,771

Re: Laptop Advice Plz

Originally posted by: Pissingintowind
I have a desktop at college... everyone I know for a laptop could be doing the same thing with a desktop. It isn't worth it.


qft, I had a laptop at college my freshman and sophomore years, and I never took it off my desk. I might as well have had a desktop, which is what I bought my junior year and was way happier.

Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.