Posts by Shadowplay

I posted last week about some of the issues I was having with an Aurora that my company owns. Basically I was called a moron for using this thing on my bed and not giving it any room to breathe. While I acknowledge that was NOT the...

I wonder if it'll take a little less time to get the financing stuff taken care of. I applied for financing a little while ago, got it approved and have my card, however they still needed my signed application and driver's license which...

Really? it's going to take them that long to process one page of paperwork? The account has already been created.

So I did it. I'm getting an Alienware Area-51 m5500. I ordered the sucker a few days ago. I totally maxxed it out. 2.26 Centrino Processor, 2 gigs Ram, 6600 Card 256, 100Gig 7200 Hard Drive. Now the only question is when will I see...

I'd like to poll the audience. If you had to stress importance in creating a gaming laptop, what would the order be? I would think it would be something like: 1. Video Card, 2. RAM 3. Px Speed 4. Hard Drive (storage, rpm) IMO it...

Why is it taking you at least two weeks to get your machine? If I ordered a m5500 right now the 'estimated' ship date is March 8th....

Ok, well thanks for the info slime. I hope this isn't the case but we'll see. Also, if heat causes a problem like this, would AW replace the part? That is IF they could isolate the prob to the video card. And could anyone tell me if...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigpimponfire I think the m5500 is the laptop for you. Highly portable i take it to school and use it in my lap while layin in bed or on the couch. I opted for the 256mb 6600 and i luv it. I...

So all these problems are from me putting this thing on my bed for 20 minutes? Highly unlikely. I wasn't playing the game while it was on the bed, just surfing the web so the vid card wasn't working really hard.

Quote: Originally Posted by Alienslime if you didn't like the aurora you won't like the a-51.pretty much the same thing. amd or p4. if you run it on a bed you probably fried your bosses toy. you might owe him $6k. all...