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Tue Nov 24
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That said, I look forward to the day when battery technology over takes power consumption and we get a month out of a gaming laptop battery charge. Clearly that's a few years away but it will come. (surely)
09/23/09
maaaannn i cant wait till the end of the tax year :D
09/23/09
09/23/09
It would be pretty cool if they posted it as a discussion topic for everyone - go out and spend 10k on your rig, list everything you would buy and provide links.
The most expensive part would be the screen. How much are 80" extremely hi-res screens?
09/23/09
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When it came to play games however everyone wanted the person with the flashy rigs to host and end up in major fail while my friends and I had no problem because instead of spending money on flashy rigs, we ended up getting better parts even though it looks ugly as sin.
In the end the people who had flashy rigs got laughed at because most of the people had better internal set up then they did, we never saw them again but each year there's always someone to take their place and people with Alienware gets laughed at too for the obvious reasons (they paid too much).
PC building is a art and even if it isn't the best stuff in there, it has soul and people who brag with pre-built computer rigs (i.e Dell/Alienware) has no right to brag. I know some of my friends don't build one but they order it from other pre-built place for reasonable price but they don't get something flashy either just performance.
09/24/09
And really, when they had trouble hosting, people went and literally laughed at them? Come on.
Your whole post reads like one of those pathetic highschool comedies, except you swapped flashy cars and jocks with guys with flashy and expensive rigs.
Grow up.
09/24/09
The trouble hosting was because of too much lag issue because they didn't have powerful enough rig. Not because it needs a powerful rig but like I said they spent all their money on looks to make it more powerful then it really is and put everyone down saying that their computer is powerful,ect..ect when it really wasn't and had most of them fooled.
Reading back now I can see how you thought that we were a asshole but you weren't there and it wasn't just me it was everyone there thought they were jackass. I have no problem with people with low spec computer at lans but if they talk shit and can't back it up then they deserve to be laughed at.
09/23/09
No, sorry. I will not ever dump thousands of dollars into a computer. That's just retarded.
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09/23/09
Unrelated stories, my buddy had an alienware desktop for a couple years and after his warranty it died and he hasn't been able to fix it due to some crazy watercooling, however he dissected it for some nice parts for another box. And another friend had a laptop that had fallen upon a similar fate but without the easy dissection. This makes me wonder, does alienware just have a "just past warranty" lifespan or are these pretty isolated cases?
09/23/09
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09/23/09
All they will play on it is WoW.
09/23/09
Heck, I built a Core2Quad Q9600 system with /eight/ gigs of DDR3 memory and /two/ GTX260s for a guy who only wanted to play OBLIVION.
Sure it's a pretty game, but holy crap. Oblivion can't even use SLI, and I /told/ him this.
09/23/09
Yeah, using that PC to play just vanilla Oblivion is a huge waste.
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Some bloody new Alienware range.
Wow, they get the Molyneux Award for Hyperbole 09.
I dunno what I was expecting, but something a bit better than some new PC's.
09/23/09
Console manufacturing maybe, but who the hell wants to go up Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo?
09/23/09
"Prices start at $1,299"
My ass.....well, that isn't too bad.
09/03/09