Alienware overrated?

[kilo122]

Do you guys find that Dell Alienware is a bit overrated and overpriced? I am thinking of buying one but my friend mentioned Sager which I have never heard before.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Overrated, don't know. Overpriced: DEFINITELY! (typical dell)

 

Haven't heard of Sager either..

[DTWD]

Just build your own, at Alienware prices you could get something rather special. Unless your talking about a laptop?

 

Kilo, that's a bit of a random footer for this forum, and why isn't it the actual Video Lan website?

[Konovalov]

If you can build your own then it will cost you a lot less than one of those fancy Dells and it will also be more rewarding as it is your own creation.

[Fopeyducker]

Bought my first PC in '96 P233mmx lol. Haven't bought one since. Build your own not only is it cheaper, but you will get a better understanding of what's what especially if things go wrong in the future. You will also get more performance for your money.

 

It's a very rewarding experience building your own PC's, even more so with your first one. As long as you have an IQ high enough to put a square peg in a square hole and a round peg in a round hole it is VERY easy.

Edited November 13, 2010 by Fopeyducker

[Konovalov]

Bought my first PC in '96 P233mmx lol. Haven't bought one since. Build your own not only is it cheaper, but you will get a better understanding of what's what especially if things go wrong in the future. You will also get more performance for your money.

 

It's a very rewarding experience building your own PC's, even more so with your first one. As long as you have an IQ high enough to put a square peg in a square hole and a round peg in a round hole it is VERY easy.

Well said. :thumbup:

 

My first computer purchase was a Pentium 133 Acer machine that cost be almost $5000 Aussie dollars back in late 1993 I think. :cry:

[Steel Jaw]

Dell sux ass, they have to modify Windoze with all kinda CRAP. And it's overpricecd proprietary so good luck upgrading it yourself.

 

BUILD YOUR OWN.

[Kuky]

Overpriced... most definitely!

 

Much, much better and cheaper to buy parts yourself and build PC like that.

[Mustang]

If you can, ALWAYS build your own PC.

[Atomic978]

Hello. I thought I would add a comment on this. I usually do all my own builds at the time when I was going to do my last build alienware had a sale. This was just before Dell bought them out. I saved about 200.00 by buying the alienware vs building my own with the same components. That is why I bought instead of a new build. The quality of the build on my alienware is solid. The wire management and everything else is pure quality. The only thing that I have done to this machine was put another 4 gig of ram in so far. I was thinking of upgrading the video cards but I want to wait and see what the finished a10 runs like. My personal experience is if you got the time to research the hardware and want the experience build your own. You will not regret it. But if it does not interest you to do that then I would recommend an alienware.

[MTFDarkEagle]

True, but nowaday's you have to pay 4 billion dollar for a pc that you can build for a couple thousand tops yourself..

[Frederf]

Alienware wasn't always a Dell-owned company. A lot of times the Dell, HP, whatever machines are less expensive than the sum of their parts because of their bargaining power and the software kickbacks the company gets for installing whatever trial, extra software you probably don't want anyway. They'd actually have to charge more to offer a fresh no-program OEM install of Windows.

 

Alienware probably uses pretty good hardware and the sum of the parts matches what you pay pretty well. That being said if you're buying a $2000 every 4 years you could probably spend $1000 every 2 years and actually be ahead in terms of performance indexed to what's normal at any given time.

 

Building your own can be a higher entry cost but the amount of flexibility and related savings will more often than not pay for itself.

[Atomic978]

I agree with building your own. But as I said I was in the process of building my machine when I got the deal on my alienware. They were in the process of moving over to Dell when they were selling off some machines they had already had assembled so I got a really good deal. As far as extra software there was none on mine when I got it. It was like a fresh install of windows with none of those damn 30 day trial things like you see on acres and dells. I feel the best thing about my alienware is the case design. It runs cool with allot of room. In fact on my next build I will probably just use my alienware case as I like it that much.

[MTFDarkEagle]

well, if it's a good case: why the hell not? :)

[Succellus]

My first PC was a 486/DX33, Had a commodore 64 before but thats just small calculator in present times:D.

 

Well about building or getting it set, you ll have to buy anyway.

 

BUT i would say the following:

 

Building pro:

Even if like me you cant put square to a round hole, and a sphere on a square hole, or was it the other way ?

Anyway you ll be able to buy it if you can play with lego, no, not the professional the basic one;

You ll start seeing a PC aint a black box and you ll start to understand what is what and why its there.

Most of the time you can build cheaper than buying;

You ll be able to balance our computer what 90% of the companies doesn t;

You wont have surprises like badly tightened pieces;:mad:

You ll hav ethe computer you want not something someone pushing down your throat.:censored:

Yes you can get satisfaction in building a computer, if you get too much satisfaction remember to clean.

- When you build it and something goes wrong, you can put your dirty hands inside and fix it. :geek:

No need to pesky 0800 than know less than you and their damn bot replies, or travel the whole city with your case under your arm.:furious:

 

The not so good.

- You have to read if you want to build some decent rig. If you have some short attention span problem, well forget it;:music_whistling:

- There s always tention while you build it, well i get tense, especially the first button press, but so far i havent fried anything but pancakes on an overheating Athlon.:chef:

- First and second build it demand a little more time as you ll want to get slow and easy, you don t want to just do it, you really want to do it right;

- you can always buy the parts and ask someone to build it and blame any failure on the person:D;

- Sometime a rig will be on a sale and it will be cheaper than the sum of the parts, but it won t be as you like, you ll end up upgrading something sooner or later, why not get dirty now anyway ?:smartass:

- when something goes wrong you can only blame yourself.:wallbash::cry_2:

[power5]

The newer Alien cases are pretty slick. Still a bit overpriced for normal retail versions though.