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post #21 of 30
2/25/05 at 2:39pm
I'm with Icculus. Try and find something cheaper. At 14 that is a ton of money to be shelling out for a laptop. AW is a great company, but I'd wait until you are older. When you have to pay for a car, insurance, gas, college....You'll undestand what I mean. Save your money for now.
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post #22 of 30
2/25/05 at 5:01pm
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Originally Posted by icculus203
If you can wade through the bragging and trolling in this thread you might find a shred of fact here and there. Frankly, I wouldn't come to a forum dedicated to the particular line of laptops you are considering buying to ask your question. That is unless you are just looking for someone to tell you how much their alienware machine rules.

The fact is, the 7700 is impressive, powerful, big, heavy, hot, and expensive. As an owner that lugs the dense miniature furnace everywhere I go I can attest to that. Overall it's a great machine and I'm happy with it. If I had to lug it around all day in a high school setting with a bunch of books (do we still use books in schools?), my opinion might be slightly different... to each their own.

One other thing, dont just buy an alienware for the brand name. If you've done your research and alienware is the one you want and the company you want to deal with then by all means buy it. However, there are TONS of other companies selling the same laptop. It's a CLEVO D900T repackaged with special plastic. The clevo label is still on the bottom (of my 7700). Do your research, check on each company, know what to expect. Some companies offer options other companies do not. Remember, it's whats on the inside of the machine that counts.

I hope this helps a little.
Inculus, this has been discussed in other threads. The 7700 is BASED on the Clevo (hence the label). However, it is not a carbon copy of the Clevo. They start with the Clevo chassis and work up from there.
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post #23 of 30
2/25/05 at 5:04pm
I have to agree with Express on this one. Save your money for now. I use my 5500m at school. It's heavy, but bearable...I certainly wouldn't want anything heavier (7700). Why would you want to take a computer that nice to middle school anyway...it'd get really f'd up with all the morons runinng around there. Find yourself a centrino based lappy with a 9700 if you really NEED a laptop for middle school.
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post #24 of 30
2/25/05 at 5:04pm
Graycoolz,

If you are talking about a notebook for school, look into a Sentia. Order with the higest processor, fill up the RAM and get the DVD-R. It will handle your schoolwork easily, and you can play games pretty well on it as well. Check the threads in the Sentia section about playing WoW and HL2 on Sentias. Everyone thought it would not work, but it did,

Joel
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post #25 of 30
2/25/05 at 6:22pm
Hey Crazycool, just wanted to let you know that I love my 5500 but I am a senior in college and I wish I would have went with something smaller and lighter, like one of those small dell laptops. The 5500 is not practical to carry around to my classes, not so much because of the wieght, but because of its overall size. Most of the desks in my university classrooms have those small tops on them. There is no way the 5500 can fit on those desks so I dont even bring it to school with me. Im definitely not bashing Alienware, I have not had one problem really with my 5500, but for ease of use, go with something small and light for school. And, believe it or not, those new dell laptops with the 64mb integrated graphics cards actually play games fairly well. A friend of mine has one and he plays madden 05, farcry, etc.. and they dont look too bad.
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post #26 of 30
2/25/05 at 6:25pm
Hey, sorry about hacking up your name Craycoolz
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post #27 of 30
2/25/05 at 7:19pm
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Originally Posted by Joelist
Inculus, this has been discussed in other threads. The 7700 is BASED on the Clevo (hence the label). However, it is not a carbon copy of the Clevo. They start with the Clevo chassis and work up from there.
I'm not sure who Inculus is, but I was talking about that a few posts back and I didn't say it was a carbon copy. What I said was it is a modified Clevo and various manufactuerers also make modified versions of the same Clevo. That is what I meant by other companies offering different options. I recommended to the original poster that he check out some of the alternate manufactuerers of modified clevo machines. I'm not trying to sell anyone on one or another, I'm simply suggesting to the poster that he make a rational educated guess.
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post #28 of 30
2/25/05 at 10:47pm
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Originally Posted by icculus203
I'm not sure who Inculus is, but I was talking about that a few posts back and I didn't say it was a carbon copy. What I said was it is a modified Clevo and various manufactuerers also make modified versions of the same Clevo. That is what I meant by other companies offering different options. I recommended to the original poster that he check out some of the alternate manufactuerers of modified clevo machines. I'm not trying to sell anyone on one or another, I'm simply suggesting to the poster that he make a rational educated guess.
Sorry, Icculus, that's what happens when i am typing to quickly with one hand.

Understand what you mean, good suggestion.
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post #29 of 30
2/25/05 at 10:48pm
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Originally Posted by ron22lefty
Hey Crazycool, just wanted to let you know that I love my 5500 but I am a senior in college and I wish I would have went with something smaller and lighter, like one of those small dell laptops. The 5500 is not practical to carry around to my classes, not so much because of the wieght, but because of its overall size. Most of the desks in my university classrooms have those small tops on them. There is no way the 5500 can fit on those desks so I dont even bring it to school with me. Im definitely not bashing Alienware, I have not had one problem really with my 5500, but for ease of use, go with something small and light for school. And, believe it or not, those new dell laptops with the 64mb integrated graphics cards actually play games fairly well. A friend of mine has one and he plays madden 05, farcry, etc.. and they dont look too bad.
Ron, then he could get a Sentia, and have a better performing laptop.
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post #30 of 30
2/26/05 at 1:09am
If you are going to get an alienware for school i would highly recommend the 5500 over the 7700 just for the fact that the 5500 is a heck of a lot more portable than the 7700. They are about the same when it comes to performance. If you look at my sig I have the 5500 (Roswell-m) and it runs all those games at max settings flawlessly and I can carry it to class with me everyday and I barely even feel it in my backpack. It isn't really that heavy, and you will notice when you get it that it is bigger than it looks on their website. The bag that I use is the Ogio Metro and my laptop barely fits into the compartment on the back and the bag is made to hold up to 15" monitor sized laptops. You shouldn't need double hard drives or anything like that for school or gaming even. I have the 60gig 7200rpm hard drive and I have plenty of room to spare and it starts up extremely quickly also. The 7700 is really designed to be a real desktop replacement and it really clumbsy and heavy to carry around I would imagine. It is really designed to sit on your desk all day and only be moved when necessary (like if you are bringing it to a lan party or something) whereas the 5500 is really portable desktop replacement computer. I impressed my Chem Prof with it so much that he said if he ever bought a Windows PC he would buy an Alienware (all he ever uses are Mac's). So, if I can convert a Mac user to a Windows based PC with this, I would say that it is a pretty impressive laptop. I have never heard of a Dell user going up to a Mac user and their laptop/computer impressing them so much that they decided they would buy a Dell next time around.
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