Alienware

Frisbee

Wasnt quite sure if this was the right place to post this or not...
But anyways does anyone know if there's a way to get alienware to deliver to Ireland? Was on the website and doesnt look like it...

Kazu

Alienware have a office in Athlone

they have a irish site also

AlmightyCushion

http://www.alienware.ie

Frisbee

Cheers

AlmightyCushion

Frisbee wrote:

Cheers

No bother man. Enjoy the new computer. If you want to post up the specs here before you buy, we can let you know what it is like.

delly

A guy in work just got a new Alienware laptop and 'tis a beast. Cost him around the €3,000 mark.

AlmightyCushion

delly wrote:

A guy in work just got a new Alienware laptop and 'tis a beast. Cost him around the €3,000 mark.

Ouch. It'd want to be a beast for that money.

Anti

Dont bother getting a alienware pc. They are just dell pc's with a hefty price tag. www.voodoopc.co.uk do some absolutly mind blowing stuff. And HP are now getting big into gaming pc's as they own voodoopc. Not sure if the HP are publicly available yet though.

petes

delly wrote:

A guy in work just got a new Alienware laptop and 'tis a beast. Cost him around the €3,000 mark.

Do you know the specs of that by any chance.

AlmightyCushion

Anti wrote:

Dont bother getting a alienware pc. They are just dell pc's with a hefty price tag. www.voodoopc.co.uk do some absolutly mind blowing stuff. And HP are now getting big into gaming pc's as they own voodoopc. Not sure if the HP are publicly available yet though.

Apparently they are meant to be have a great warrenty service.

DamoKen

another one you could have a look at is http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/ . Haven't bought from them myself but they have a lot more configuration options than you'll find on Alienware for a fraction of the price. Alienware are way overpriced imo. Do a comparision configuration between the 2 and you'll see what I mean.

delly

petes wrote:

Do you know the specs of that by any chance.

Sure, he pasted his spec sheet for me, came to €2996 or so:

[1] Area-51® m9750

Display: 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology - Stealth Black
Operating System: Genuine Windows® XP Professional UK with SP2 - English
TV Tuner: None
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7600 2.33GHz 4MB Cache 667MHz FSB
Graphics Processor : 512MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7950 GTX
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 2048MB
System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 200GB 7200 RPM SATA
Optical Drive: 8x Dual Layer CD-RW/DVD±RW Burner w/ LightScribe Technology
Sound Hardware: Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with surround sound
Keypad: Mobile Keypad - English
Optional Mouse: Logitech® MX™ Revolution
Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel® Wireless 4965 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card
Communications: Integrated 10/1000Mb Gigabit Ethernet & 56K V.92 Modem
Floppy Drive: USB Floppy Drive
Bluetooth: Integrated Bluetooth® Device
Warranty: AlienCare 1-Year Free Phone 24/7 and Collect & Return
AlienRespawn: AlienRespawn v1.0 Recovery Kit – Windows XP Edition
Security Software: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Professional - 12 month subscription Included!
Mobile Transport: Alienware® Odyssey Backpack
Alienware Gear: Alienware® Ceramic Mug - Black
Alienware Extras: Alienware® T-Shirt - FREE!
Alienware Extras: AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - £50 Value - FREE!
Alienware Extras: Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager - FREE!
Alienware Extras: Custom Alienware® fUnc Mousepad - FREE!

azezil

My mate boasted when he got his Alienware laptop, he had nothing but issues with it, sent it back 3 times to be repaired, eventually they just replaced it and now he's having issues with the new one hahaha

AlmightyCushion

delly wrote:

Sure, he pasted his spec sheet for me, came to €2996 or so:

Nice specs but I suspect going from 2GB to 4GB cost him an extra €500.

Anti

delly wrote:

Sure, he pasted his spec sheet for me, came to €2996 or so:

If i payed 3k for that spec i would be disgusted with myself. its about 1000€ over priced.

AlmightyCushion

Anti wrote:

If i payed 3k for that spec i would be disgusted with myself. its about 1000€ over priced.

For a laptop?

Anti

yep, you can get a almost identical spec laptop from sony,hp,toshiba etc etc for 2000€ With alienware you pay for the name.

delly

Well the man wanted what the man wanted, I know I wouldn't pay that amount ether but there you go.

AlmightyCushion

Anti wrote:

yep, you can get a almost identical spec laptop from sony,hp,toshiba etc etc for 2000€ With alienware you pay for the name.

Damn, I didn't think it would work out that much cheaper.

Anti

Yeah, its a bit of a rip off alright. And the worst thing is, the battery life on that alienware laptop will be about 45mins. I dont get people who ponce about with stupidly expensive laptops. They arnt portable at all, as you have to plug them into the wall where ever you go. You could build a much higher spec pc for 1/3rd of the price.

AlmightyCushion

They're more portable than a desktop. I had a desktop in second year and while it was great, the laptop I have now is far handier. If I go into college and need to do something, whip out the laptop and away you go. On the train I can watch videos. If I go to one of my friends houses and we decided to play a lan game, I don't need to lug a desktop over.

petes

Anti wrote:

I dont get people who ponce about with stupidly expensive laptops. .

I don't ponce about with my XPS

AlmightyCushion

How expensive is stupidly expensive?

petes

€2,800 last December.

AlmightyCushion

petes wrote:

€2,800 last December.

Ouch. I thought I was bad paying €1700 for my laptop.

petes

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Ouch. I thought I was bad paying €1700 for my laptop.

I didn't pay for it.

AlmightyCushion

petes wrote:

I didn't pay for it.

I think I remember you telling me work payed for it and also for 4GB of ram for it too. Would I be correct?

petes

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I think I remember you telling me work payed for it and also for 4GB of ram for it too. Would I be correct?

Correct on one part (had to get something out of them). It has 2GB ram in it.

I wouldn't mind buying a couple of 2GB modules though.

AlmightyCushion

petes wrote:

Correct on one part (had to get something out of them). It has 2GB ram in it.

I wouldn't mind buying a couple of 2GB modules though.

I could have sworn you said you managed to get them to pay for 4GB without them knowing about it. Ah well you still got a €2800 laptop for nowt.

petes

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I could have sworn you said you managed to get them to pay for 4GB without them knowing about it. Ah well you still got a €2800 laptop for nowt.

/goes to check the post.

RoyalMarine

Anti wrote:

If i payed 3k for that spec i would be disgusted with myself. its about 1000€ over priced.

i bought the exact same laptop from dell, but only got 2bg ram in it. upgraded the ram myself and total price including ram and harddrive upgrade came to 2190 inc delivery, vat and a wicked backpack i got from dabs.