Here you go OP.

 

You can hear horror stories like that about every company. Especially Acer, HP, Gateway, Samsung. Whats your point? You can have bad luck with ANY laptop.

If your buying your laptop just by judging the quality of the build quality and the customer service than the only real answer is Apple. Their hardware specs might be pretty outdated, but their build quality and customer service is better than any other company.

 

Asus / thread

Best bang for the buck

 

My roommate has an Alienware laptop and it has been nothing but trouble. He takes VERY good care of it and even then there have been things that are already breaking on him. Mind you, he has had this laptop for a little more than 5 months and the space bar and "h" key are already on their way out (the spring underneath broke). If you want a good laptop for general use, I would highly recommend looking into buying an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad. I have had an IBM ThinkPad T40 for 6 years and I would say I used that laptop pretty hard (left the laptop on for days and frequently left it in my trunk in the freezing cold). Even now, albeit slow when compared to modern day laptops it's still running perfectly fine. If you do end up buying a ThinkPad, I would steer away from the X100e. I personally have one and if you're doing anything other than word processing, watching movies/videos or web browsing, it's pretty slow.

 

I custom build my own desktop and simply do not prefer laptops for anything else except email on the go.

Macs and Alienware bring so much hate because they cater to an ignorant audience who does not know the true market price of the technology, and they over charge for outdated crap.

On that field of technology youre comparing apples to bad apples, but to compare the S2000, thats just not fair! As a car enthusiast, if honda charged 250,000 for an S2000 then ya id just go with a Scuderia and say F honda. This is sorta what Apple and Alien are doing.

I built my own PC (under 3k) and it scores damn hear 50k on vantage, and my friends 10,000 alienware isnt scoring nearly that high.

 

Hell, if you're going to spend that kind of money, get a Falcon Northwest.

 

comparing mac's to the s2k is entirely a good argument. Mac's are typically double the cost of a similar pc, my macbook air (which I only got because my 17" HP was killing my back to tote around for hours a day) was a grand or so. A similar laptop (not netbook) is between 600-800. So its around double the price. Which means half the 35k from the s2000 could build something entirely faster then the s2000 in every way. Would it be pretty? Probably not, but it'd be faster then hell in a straight line and a turn if you wanted.

Alienware's are probably closer to the 250k argument though, as most are obscenely overpriced, I got mine at a killer price otherwise I would have made my own.

 

Except that the component parts of a friken s2k aren't available for cheaper than the finished product, nor are they available to *every other car manufacturer*... your analogy is a total fail.

Internals of a mac:
-major manufacturer gfx card
-Intel chip and compatible mobo
-major manufacturer [everything else]

Alienware is even more broad, but again, all parts you can get yourself and any other computer manufacturer can get (except... the branded case, in either case)

So you can build literally the exact same thing yourself, or any other laptop manufacturer can build the same thing. You can also buy the latest Apple OS and install it on any PC with an intel processor, so uh... again, exactly the same.

Computers are the sum of their parts. There isn't a magical dust that Apple and Alienware sprinkle over their systems to make them more awesome. What apple does is make a very attractive package for it's internals and ditches a lot of things that people use rarely in order to slim it down.

If you build your own little trackday car out of spare parts and put it together and make it as fast as an S2000, it's still NOT the same car... it's a car with comparable performance. The difference is obvious. A computer is *literally the sum of the same damn parts* in the case of Alienware or Apple vs an asus/toshiba/whatever.

Anyway, this whole argument is ridiculous and I can't believe I'm bothering to participate in it. Anyone who pays full price for an Alienware is throwing away money, end of story. If you got yours cheap, great, good for you. That wouldn't make it any less of a waste for the OP. People buy Apple products for customer service, perceived quality, ease of use (again, packaging) and their exterior design. There is *nothing wrong with that* ... but there is something wrong with your analogy.

 

Just want to point out that OP decided not to buying an Alienware laptop in post # 5

But yeah those Falcon Northwest laptops can seriously cost up to like 12k. Easily get an AP1 for that much.

 

My point was that even when buying the best labtop there were still problems after only 2-3 months of owning it, and the customer service was horribe. It basically sums up that Dell computers are not very reliable and they dont support their own products.

My post was also relevant since the OP was asking about Alienware and as I said they are associated with Dell.