Laptop Specs

[Daniel_VTR]

Can any of you smarter "PC wonder boys" :P advise me if this is pretty desent?

I'm pretty sure for a laptop its impressive..

Screen = 15.4" WideXGA 1280 x 800 LCD with Clearview Technology
Processor = Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5500 1.66GHz 2MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Graphics = 128MB ATI® Mobility™ Radeon® X1400
RAM = 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 1024MB
Memory = 100GB 7200 RPM SATA with NCQ
DVD Drive = 8x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24x CD-RW Combo with Nero Software

Windows Vista
plus all the usuals like
Wireless enabled

Sound okay??

[Clouds_mate]

whats the price of that mate?

[Daniel_VTR]

£774.. but its Alienware.. Always wanted one :P

[NickB]

it all depends what u want a laptop for mate....

gaming, work, internet, music storage then once u know what your going to use the laptop for u can customise with alienware what u want, for instance if i was to game on that laptop it is defo going to need a better graphics card to future proof it... so what will u be doing on it?

[MattyJ]

Really good spec, near enough exact same spec as my Toshiba. Part from I dont run Vista, XP Media centre baby.

[Daniel_VTR]

Ordered last night, Should be with me on 18th :)

Changed the processor to = Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7400 2.16GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB

and the graphics card to = 256MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7600

Spoke to the sales rep and got it delivered for £1150 with loads of free goodies ;D

[Predator_R32]

pretty good spec that mate

what make is it??

[daz223]

good spec nearly like my toshiba except i have vista ultimate :P

[Daniel_VTR]

It is Vista Ultimate :P

Preadtor - It's Alienware.. Wanted an Alienware since i was about 10 lol, they specialise in PC's for gaming and stuff, you can spend up to like £10000 on some of the other models.. Insane stuff :P

[Predator_R32]

ahhhh right never heard of them so god knows :p

im onto my 3rd sony vaio in 4 month :p

[b0t13]

alienware do some amazing pc's, not cheap tho..

[Daniel_VTR]

ahhhh right never heard of them so god knows :p

im onto my 3rd sony vaio in 4 month :p

Yeah I saw your thread.. That's crazy, but better for you :P wish all companies were like that!

They are a pretty specialized company, but you get what you pay for :P

[jasonfitness]

Dell do some very good gaming laptops. Theyve got a gaming series called "XPS".

I spent £1,600 on my laptop. Its a Dell XPS M1710. Specs are as follows:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7400 Processor (2.16GHz,667MHz,4MB L2 cache)
Windows XP (Had VISTA and its crap imo. too many compatibility probs)
2GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
17.0" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife™
100GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including software
512MB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 GTX graphics card


Fabulous gaming machine! I only bought it because I dont have room for a PC, wanted it for those quiet moments at work, and because I cant play games consoles- doctors orders (they make me really ill)

[NickB]

Alienware are very good machines but very over priced some of the case designs are imence though!

Dell arnt far behind alienware with the specs when you customise the machines....

the dell XPS tower gaming units are very very good specs however if you want a gaming tower you can build it yourself cheaper its just laptops that are the pain in the ass!

Nice work with the laptop though mate that graphics card and processor is much better! Happy gaming ;)

[Daniel_VTR]

Dell own Alienware which is why the price,specs on the XPS are about the same, I tried and found that the XPS was slightly more expensive..


I did look at a few normal laptops, and you can spend £1600 on a sony,phillips,hp with pretty low specs, I tried Falcon Notrhwest but means importing so i was left with only 1 option :P plus ont he design side I think the Alienware rocks :P

[sjsbale]

I've always wanted an Alienware laptop but i've heard recently that they can overheat alot and also motherboards can become faulty, would rather go for the Dell XPS M1330.

[srcnix]

The Intel Core 2 Duo is a lovely processor.

I'm currently running a laptop with the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0, 4MB cache per core
2048MB DDR RAM
160GB 5400RPM SATA HDD

It runs smooth and fast. Especially for Gentoo Linux.

[Daniel_VTR]

I've always wanted an Alienware laptop but i've heard recently that they can overheat alot and also motherboards can become faulty, would rather go for the Dell XPS M1330.

Which is overpriced compared to the Alienware :P, and comes with Dell's great customer service team , I had a Dell computer once.. Never again

Scrnix - Sounds like a nice setup!

[srcnix]

Which is overpriced compared to the Alienware :P, and comes with Dell's great customer service team , I had a Dell computer once.. Never again

Scrnix - Sounds like a nice setup!

It's pretty fierce, runs like a beauty and couldn't ask for anything more from Dell to be honest.

[jasonfitness]

It's pretty fierce, runs like a beauty and couldn't ask for anything more from Dell to be honest.

I agree, no complaints from me either. My hard drive was making a funny noise, rang up the 24x7 XPS Help desk and explained what happened. They sent me a new Hard drive- no questions asked- and I got it 2 days later.