nice laptop, probably plays most current games pretty decently. When I get to a point, where I started wiping my ___ with 20 dollar bills, I'd pony up for that.

But you could build a much faster tower and have enough money leftover to buy a ps3 and a wii. maybe some weed too.

 

yea can build a exceptional tower yes for cheap these days. that site will have what you need but u wil have to pay for it.

 

That laptop is a beast!! ...also goes for the price tag.

 

ALIEN WARE

 

way, and i mean way overpriced.

 

"But my friend in the know, says alienware is the best there is"

 

^^ and your friend has a big brown nose too... hahaha.. even if you did get a laptop that has everything you want to play games... take that bad boy off the power adaptor and play a game.. it will die in about 30 mins.. hahaha.. so just build a desktop... yes they do build laptops with interchangable videocards.. but they are very expensive... easier to find parts and to do on a desktop...
i find that 90% of the ppl that want a gaming computer don't even use it for gaming.. the darn thing can run NASA but it only sits at home dling certain videos..

 

Good lords man, laptops are not for high end gaming. Not only is there a power issue, but a heat issue as well. Laptops are notoriously poor at heat dissipation. Even if you could run the latest games on the machine, it would melt the casing from gpu and processor heat. So unless dude plans on gaming in the snow, get a desktop. If you want mobility get a laptop but you will not be able to do high end gaming with it. Also, alienware is not the end all for gaming systems. They are also overly inflated prices. Oh and by the way, they are owned by Dell. They are as much their own company as scion is from toyota. Oh and alienware is second and sometimes thirdhand parts. These are rebuilt systems not brand new parts. The best gaming system for the money and quality is building a rig yourself.

 

so very true! I have seen so many people do that when I used to work at best buy, wanted the best but only did word processing... a $500 machine could do what they wanted, but they wanted to spend $5000 for one that will do the same thing, and its not like its even faster...

 

^^^lol.. i say that too because i worked at bestbuy... i use to work in the GeekSquad.. i would see ppl buy these highend computers for a mediacenter, or gaming, etc etc.. but then i would see them back visiting me so I can clean their computer of viruses and spyware that they got from the sites that they visited... you think you can clear all history... but i know where to look to find out where you went..
use to be, i would tell them not to go to certain sites... then they would get rude with me saying that they don't go to those sites... i would make a list of the sites that they went to and give it to them.. they just shut up and say what else do i need to do... then they listen to my recommendations..