Posts by Dudecow

well thanks guys, with your advice I'm confident I'm buying the right products. Looks like I can save over 500$ on buying the ram and hardrive elsewhere . Edit: Okay I found a HDD and RAM at Newegg.ca but I'm not sure if it's compatable...

if I wanted to buy an internal hardrive for the m15x from newegg would it be compatable as long as it was 2.5" and for notebooks? Or are there other requirements?

oh, I can get 2 x 2gb DDR-2 sodimm 667 MHz Kingston from newegg for 50$. Lol alienware charges 450$ Canadian to go from 1gb to 4gb. Ridiculous.

Thanks Fidget, I do live in western Canada, Vancouver actually. I guess I see the point of the price, like importing expensive wine I suppose. If I were to upgrade the ram would anything labeled 'ddr-2, 667mhz' work? I've never swapped...

Hello fellow notebook owners! I live in Canada and am looking to buy an alienware gaming notebook online. I've come to learn quickly those things don't mix well at all. Alienware(ca) deems it necessary to charge me over 1000.00$...

okay, thanks littlefrankus, credits for you, I've decided to go with the m15x, it's smaller thread closed!

well I suppose I'll go with the m15x at maxed specs.(x9000 2.8ghz, 9800m gt, 1920 x 1200, 320gb 7200rpm, games, extra adapter, few other goodies and windows vista,(of course -.-'). Only thing that MAY deter me from this would be AW...

hmm, that makes sense to me but not waiting another year =|. I was wondering if I were to get the m15x in say around march-April and they relase a different laptop with newer technology within a year could I return for full refund and...

Hi, I am looking into buying my first alienware notebook , either the m17 or m15x. Not big on the 2450$ starting price(I live in canada) and lack of skullcap option on the m17x and the m9750 Is just too old(why do they still offer that...

what are your opinions on windows vista 32 and 64bit? Will they be better in playing games over windows xp mce?