Alienware Laptops

[EvilJaxx]

Hey guys

Looking to buy myself an Alienware laptop and have £1000 to spend.
I was looking at two models from www.alienware.co.uk and am not sure which one to choose, its not about the knowledge I dont understand I know all about computers just cant make my mind up which;


1. Alienware Sentia, 14"

It has the following specification:

14" Widescreen 1280 x 800 ress with ClearView 3 light technology
Intel® Pentium® M Processor (533MHz FSB, 2MB Cache) 1.74 Ghz
Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics 256MB Core, 128MB Memory
1GB DDR2, 533Mhz Ram
Inbuilt 1.3MP Webcam
60GB HardDrive 5400 rpm
£911

2. Alienware Area 51, 15.4"

It has the following specification:

15.4" Widescreen 1280 x 800 ress WideXGA+
Intel® Pentium® M Processor (533 MHz FSB, 2MB Cache) 1.74 Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Go, 128Mb
1GB DDR2, 533Mhz
60GB Harddrive 5400 rpm
£957


The only thing that really makes these different is the screen size, both achieve the same ress of 1280 x 800 but Would the 14" be a little small for everyday use and as a main computer system?

Regards

Adam

 

[Hellcat]

14" screen? I wouldn't touch a laptop with anything smaller than a 15.4".

They're big sums of money there - are you sure Alienware is worth it? Are you sure you need a performance laptop? For the money you could almost afford a decent PC and a laptop.

 

[Stu DemonD]

I agree, 14" is way too small for everyday use.

If I had £1000 to spend, it wouldn't be on one of those.

 

[EvilJaxx]

I have a decent PC with a top of the range 64 bit processor and decent graphics but im selling it to a mate for a silly cheap price of £200 including a brand new 17" TFT

But thats beside the point, I must admit I am slowly turning to the Area 51 now!

Adam

 

[Hellcat]

Gotta say for the money they're crap.

14" screen? Far too small. Even if it does have something similar to the Sony X-Black screen. Bunny's got 17" X-Black for not a lot more than that - and that was nearly two years ago.
60GB 5400rpm - bog standard now. In fact 60GB is plain small.
Any graphics card starting with Intel means you can play Command and Conquer and thats about it. Leave it to ATI and Nvidia for graphics cards.
1.7Ghz processor - seems slow.
1GB Ram. Standard.

I think you're paying for the name there. Bunny's Sony has similar or better spec and it only cost a couple hundred more 2 years ago.

 

[bulldog5046]

Gotta say for the money they're crap.

14" screen? Far too small. Even if it does have something similar to the Sony X-Black screen. Bunny's got 17" X-Black for not a lot more than that - and that was nearly two years ago.
60GB 5400rpm - bog standard now. In fact 60GB is plain small.
Any graphics card starting with Intel means you can play Command and Conquer and thats about it. Leave it to ATI and Nvidia for graphics cards.
1.7Ghz processor - seems slow.
1GB Ram. Standard.

I think you're paying for the name there. Bunny's Sony has similar or better spec and it only cost a couple hundred more 2 years ago.

dunno about now but those spec seem a little low for alienware? they used to make the most amazing laptops a year ago with from what i remember was better specs than that! they did AMD laptops aswell which made me like them more.

 

[custard]

accoring to the site you can get..........
Area-51® m5700
Portable Power
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition with SP2
Intel® Celeron® M 370 1.5GHz 1MB L2 Cache 400MHZ FSB
512MB Dual Channel DDR2 PC-4200 533MHz - 2x256MB
256MB NVIDIA GeForce™ Go 6800 //m5700
Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) with surround sound
for £949
thats a 17" screen

the next one up use desktop processors @ 3ghz but is £200 more

 

[Hellcat]

But a celery? You want full P4 or even better AMD 64 processors.

 

[Si]

Alienware are owned by Dell now.

So your spending all that money on a Dell!!!

 

[Hellcat]

Alienware are owned by Dell now.

So your spending all that money on a Dell!!!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

It looked like a Dell from the price and spec :devil:

 

[Si]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4835536.stm

Maybe operating as a seperate brand but end of the day it's still going to be the same parts and you'll end up paying a premium for it cause of the name. If you really want alienware, just by a standard dell laptop

 

[Jai]

now if you were certain of knowing where the world cup was going to end up....
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/toshiba_wc2006

 

[faster4_tec]

as hellcat, any intel grahics (card, not really a card, just another chip), is rubbish, it will struggle with anything more demanding that 3d pinball

I got a HP NX 6125 ML32, its a 64bit amd turion with 1.8ghz 4hour battery 15" screen dvdrw, 512mb ram (now 1gb, with 1slot free) 60gb HD, ati X300 card (although it got sent away to be fixed for an intermintant crash and bluescreening problem, and now has a most excellent X800mobile :slayer: :worship: , used to play Half life source and counterstrike source resonably well, now plays anything upto fear on med accel, and deathmatch source really really fecking well!!!) cost £625 inc vat(I got without vat:yum: )
got a finger print reader built on the top of it too at bios level so you can't boot windows without it reading a users finger:slayer:

 

[Liam]

Save up a tad more then get this

http://www.voodoopc.com/showroom.aspx?ProductID=1090

Play any games you can throw at it!

Liam

 

[faster4_tec]

so does my mates water cooled gaming pc, cost him (inc a brand new 21" crt monitor) £640 all from ebay and local shops, runs a bomb, and makes no noise except for hard drive . the old one blew up when the water cooling leaked (dodgy hose clamp) and blew mother board, which blew graphics card and ram and cpu and soundcard etc, got money out of the company but not much

 

[EvilJaxx]

Hey,

Think I might just take a finance agreement on the Aurora mALX 19"

Future proof for sometime me thinks

19" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in 1.3 Mega Pixel Cam
AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile ML44 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
2GB Dual Channel DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2x1024MB
Dual 256MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 GTX - SLI Technology
120GB 5400 RPM SATA

:slayer: