Calling it infinitely upgradable because of screwless assembly and a fancy, obviously expensive and harder to maintain alternative to fans on certain vents strikes me as weird. It isn't like roughly half of the cases you can buy today don't have a screwless assembly anyway and calling it infinitely upgradable because you can have up to six hard drives strikes me as silly, and doubly so when you consider that socket types with Intel are currently splitting into two directions and PCI Express is likely to be undergoing a major change sometime before the next two years.
So while that may seem silly to me, so does using a fancy air-based heat dissipation method when your hotter components are already on liquid cooling.
Also I'm rather annoyed by the fact that he didn't explain what a motorized heat vent even is. You know, a fan and a vent could be called a motorized heat vent. But thats buzzwords for you. It's not like Alienware customers are typically from the overclocking scene anyway... which really makes all that fancy cooling pretty moot.
@Jonathan Rose: Not to mention, liquid cooling is pretty pointless unless you overclock like a motherfucker.
Sure, it increases component life - but the way I see it, if you're enough of an enthusiast to bother fucking around with water cooling, keeping the solution bubble-free and cleaning algae out of the tubes, you're probably going to be replacing the whole machine within 2-3 years.
@Matt0505: Problem is, it doesn't even look nice. You can get much more functional, easy to work in cases that do look better and put together your own superior machine for a lot less.
@Matt0505: Hardly. The "PC" community have been putting in high quality components in their gaming laptops a lot longer than Apple started giving up their manby-pamby PowerPC (Please...) Processors.
From Falcon to Alienware, to (then) Voodoo and now ASUS (and beyond), we're still rigging our desktops and laptops, and that will likely never change.
--Typing this on an ASUS ROG G51-VX1-A1 laptop with Q9000 Quad processor (Overclocked) with 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M CUDA with 1GB Dedicated GDDR3 VRAM, ExpressGate function, Hackintoshed partition in it's second HDD and other doo-dads.
NOTE: My MacBook Pro has since been sitting in my closet in it's box for the last two months. (^_^)
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@IsLaNd3r - and the chipmunks: Owning both a MacBook Pro and an ASUS ROG G51-VX1-A1, I am confused as to what is actually right about the statement; especially when the gaming community have always had laptop and desktop configurations available to them (at least since the late-80s/early 90s), and Apple fairly recently ditched their PowerPC CPUs for Intels.
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@(Zombie) Jolan: Woohoo, look at me.
No don't look at that tank
Or the Nanosuit guy..but then again, that Nanosuit, it looks so purdy..mmmmm directX...*drool*
@deanbmmv: *hoists horse, tank and naked man onto shoulders as he flees the scene*
JOYSTIQ WAS HERE *I yell as I run away*
MUAHAHAHHAHA
(they'll never know I was from Kotaku!)
A rather interesting way to advertise your game. PAX out of the main expos n con's does seem to be "the gamers expo".
Oh n how did the radio call in guy giving away his tickets go?
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So while that may seem silly to me, so does using a fancy air-based heat dissipation method when your hotter components are already on liquid cooling.
Also I'm rather annoyed by the fact that he didn't explain what a motorized heat vent even is. You know, a fan and a vent could be called a motorized heat vent. But thats buzzwords for you. It's not like Alienware customers are typically from the overclocking scene anyway... which really makes all that fancy cooling pretty moot.
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Sure, it increases component life - but the way I see it, if you're enough of an enthusiast to bother fucking around with water cooling, keeping the solution bubble-free and cleaning algae out of the tubes, you're probably going to be replacing the whole machine within 2-3 years.
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09/25/09
From Falcon to Alienware, to (then) Voodoo and now ASUS (and beyond), we're still rigging our desktops and laptops, and that will likely never change.
--Typing this on an ASUS ROG G51-VX1-A1 laptop with Q9000 Quad processor (Overclocked) with 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M CUDA with 1GB Dedicated GDDR3 VRAM, ExpressGate function, Hackintoshed partition in it's second HDD and other doo-dads.
NOTE: My MacBook Pro has since been sitting in my closet in it's box for the last two months. (^_^)
09/25/09
Wouldn't it be the other way around?
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'Alienware recommends Windows Vista'
I love that. :D
09/25/09
And that question refers to now, in 2009, not when Vista first launched.
09/25/09
I run Vista on my Laptop, and I like it.
Just found it funny, try breaking your frown a little.
09/25/09
Wasn't sure if you found each individual line funny or both of them together, which seems to be the case here.
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I was thinking Bad Horse, the thoroughbred of sin.
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Bad Horse is a snazzier dresser, obviously.
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Just need some crazy strength and a huge diversion...
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*Runs tank into wall*
GO! GO! GO!
09/03/09
quick go make a scene!!
09/03/09
@(Zombie) Jolan: Woohoo, look at me.
No don't look at that tank
Or the Nanosuit guy..but then again, that Nanosuit, it looks so purdy..mmmmm directX...*drool*
09/03/09
JOYSTIQ WAS HERE *I yell as I run away*
MUAHAHAHHAHA
(they'll never know I was from Kotaku!)
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(TF2 that is, Kotaku vs Joystiq)
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Oh n how did the radio call in guy giving away his tickets go?