T_Yamamoto
Lifer
- Jul 6, 2011
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Alienware is overpriced and their machines are ugly. I'd rather buy a gaming laptop from Xotic/Sager/Malibal, which is precisely what I did.
Yes.
Overpriced pos
Alienware is overpriced and their machines are ugly. I'd rather buy a gaming laptop from Xotic/Sager/Malibal, which is precisely what I did.
IMO, Alienware laptops are best gaming laptops you can buy. Talking about the M17x specifically, they have the best cooling out of all the high end laptops that I've seen. I have never seen my 7970M go past 75C. Yet I often see Sager laptops get in the 80s, even 90 sometimes. Here's a Furmark run:
They have a much better keyboard and trackpad than Sagers (it's pretty ridiculous that Clevo uses the same keyboard for their 15" and 17" laptops). You can manually disable the integrated graphics, therefore bypassing any switchable graphics issues so that you know you're getting the full performance of the dedicated GPU. As a nice bonus, there's also an HDMI input so you can use the screen as monitor (why isn't this a more common feature).