anunnakian said:

CrossingTheStar said:

I want to appreciate games on their highest settings with a new screen. So I figure, I may as well get a laptop.

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You don't want a laptop then.

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Its Pat said:

AlienWare == DELL

Which for the first three years that you own it should do you fine.

Personally for that type of money and purchasing a LapTop I would just throw down just a little more and get a MacBook.

When the prices go up like that a Windows Based box really looses it's luster.  That is primarily dealing with they Ultimate Eventual Headache of owning a Windows Box.  I won't go into specifics here; why should I?

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Beanhead said:

Just put together your own computer, with that kind of money you can make a monster PC

Also you hate it that your computer is starting to slow down but the batteries of a laptop wear out so fast and the moment it starts to overheat it runs annoyingly slow.

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Maverick said:

Well he wants to game pat, so a macbook would be void for that point.


Crossing, by not wanting a laptop he meant you will not achieve the highest quality settings on a laptop, you cannot as they do not consume the power of a desktop and cannot produce the equivalent.  You'll get medium to medium high graphics settings and you won't get 1080p resolutions.  Expect something like 1440x not 1680x.

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CrossingTheStar said:

anunnakian said:

CrossingTheStar said:

I want to appreciate games on their highest settings with a new screen. So I figure, I may as well get a laptop.

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You don't want a laptop then.

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I travel around kinda often. A lap top for gaming and watching movies would be perfect.

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Maverick said:

Don't EVER buy a prebuilt watercooling loop by ANYONE.  It will have mixed metals such as both aluminum and copper.  You will get corrosion and galvanization.  If you EVER go with a watercooling system, build it yourself.  Those alienware watercooling systems are Nothing but TROUBLE.

Just because it says liquid cooling people automatically assume that it's good.  No it's not.

I have a watercooled PC, I've had a few.  Mine is a custom built waterloop, everything is nickel and copper.  A lot of prebuilt systems will use Aluminum and copper (alienware has done this), and it ruins the metal after awhile through galvanization.

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CrossingTheStar said:

Maverick said:

Don't EVER buy a prebuilt watercooling loop by ANYONE.  It will have mixed metals such as both aluminum and copper.  You will get corrosion and galvanization.  If you EVER go with a watercooling system, build it yourself.  Those alienware watercooling systems are Nothing but TROUBLE.

Just because it says liquid cooling people automatically assume that it's good.  No it's not.

I have a watercooled PC, I've had a few.  Mine is a custom built waterloop, everything is nickel and copper.  A lot of prebuilt systems will use Aluminum and copper (alienware has done this), and it ruins the metal after awhile through galvanization.

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Wow, I never knew that. Maybe I should just wipe my PC, buy a new screen for 125 or so, and a used 360 and have adapters to the PC screen when I want to play it.

I'm not really sure though now.

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Maverick said:

Well he wants to game pat, so a macbook would be void for that point.


Crossing, by not wanting a laptop he meant you will not achieve the highest quality settings on a laptop, you cannot as they do not consume the power of a desktop and cannot produce the equivalent.  You'll get medium to medium high graphics settings and you won't get 1080p resolutions.  Expect something like 1440x not 1920x.

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Maverick said:

CrossingTheStar said:

Maverick said:

Don't EVER buy a prebuilt watercooling loop by ANYONE.  It will have mixed metals such as both aluminum and copper.  You will get corrosion and galvanization.  If you EVER go with a watercooling system, build it yourself.  Those alienware watercooling systems are Nothing but TROUBLE.

Just because it says liquid cooling people automatically assume that it's good.  No it's not.

I have a watercooled PC, I've had a few.  Mine is a custom built waterloop, everything is nickel and copper.  A lot of prebuilt systems will use Aluminum and copper (alienware has done this), and it ruins the metal after awhile through galvanization.

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Wow, I never knew that. Maybe I should just wipe my PC, buy a new screen for 125 or so, and a used 360 and have adapters to the PC screen when I want to play it.

I'm not really sure though now.

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Most screens have HDMI, so you shouldn't need any adapters.  It would be cool if they made a skinny xbox 360 for travel.

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Rexter said:

I have an asus g 60j x and works super good for games
With no lags. And supurb graphics. And super fast.

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Maverick said:

Anyone here check out Asus laptops?  I've got an Asus G71, and I can play the new Assassin's Creed on it, I can play crysis on it, etc.

I think they're lower priced than alienwares too, and personally I like them better than overpriced Dell (alienware).

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Blindtheeye said:

I was doing court mandated community service one time and this old man comes in and has an Alienware laptop in his hands.  This was the kind of place that people donate their old crap and get tax receipts so they can use them as a tax write off.  The dude proceeded to tell us a story about how he bought the thing for his son as a high school  graduation present.  And how the kid failed out of college in his first semester so he decided to take it away and was donating it to the "christian ministry" place I was at.  The lady running the community service had absolutely NO idea what it was and I told her I would giver her 150 bucks for it and she's all "Hell yea".  The next day when I brought the money up to pay her someone had broken in to the place that night and stole it. 

I assume it was one of the kids doing community service that saw it and saw how easy it would be to break in and steal it.  My heart was broken... I was so close.   

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