Hmmm should i get an alienware ? ..

garyfl · 26 Sep 2011 at 23:27

Metalface Mark said:
There was 3 up I think on Wed last week, was pretty much the same spec as that one (except had 6970 crossfire, 2720 cpu), it was £1200 inc VAT, was sorely tempted but I had already ordered a m17x with a 6990 from the outlet the day before.

The last week has had some amazing bargains, there was even a m17x with a gtx580 for just over a grand.

great bargains, hope to see one within the next 3 days so i can snap it up. can anyone tell me if alienwares come with a firewire port ?

RobK · 26 Sep 2011 at 23:44

The ones on the outlet at the moment don't seem such good value. I wonder if they have decided they were too cheap and put the prices up?

Datamonkey · 27 Sep 2011 at 01:34

To be honest i was keeping an eye on the outlet and didnt see any of those.

Who ever snapped em up got a real bargin!

My m17x was a bargain from the outlet along with a 3 year warranty, i was keeping an eye out for m18's on there but ahh well missed out. The american outlet has loads so maybe more will crop up, who knows.

cubepusher · 27 Sep 2011 at 10:05

Datamonkey · 27 Sep 2011 at 13:07

cubepusher said:
Yeah I saw an M18 on there last week, it had 16gb RAM, 256gb SSD, i7 etc etc.

It was up there for £1024, would have snapped it up had my student loan come through which it still hasn't.

Im sorry lol but i really dont believe that!!

Some of the bargains people are coming out with do seem to good to be true

chili · 27 Sep 2011 at 13:29

i have had my m17x for 2 weeks now, best thing i have bought for a while, cool,silent...deadly lol

Metalface Mark · 27 Sep 2011 at 13:32

Datamonkey said:
Im sorry lol but i really dont believe that!!

Some of the bargains people are coming out with do seem to good to be true

That one does seem a tad far fetched, but there are great bargains to be had, always has been, last week was brilliant though!

Datamonkey · 27 Sep 2011 at 14:08

I cannot even find m18x's on the outlet

i must be blind or something.

All im seeing are m17x r3's and some really old m17's at silly prices lol.

Datamonkey · 27 Sep 2011 at 14:10

Metalface Mark said:
That one does seem a tad far fetched, but there are great bargains to be had, always has been, last week was brilliant though!

Have you received yours yet?

As mine is in build i have to wait until the 24/10 at the earliest really.

not too much of an issue as were away on holiday from the 14th.

Metalface Mark · 27 Sep 2011 at 17:11

Datamonkey said:
I cannot even find m18x's on the outlet i must be blind or something.

All im seeing are m17x r3's and some really old m17's at silly prices lol.

There were a few 18's up last week around Tue/Wed, stayed there a full 24 hours pretty much then someone snapped them up.

Datamonkey said:
Have you received yours yet?

As mine is in build i have to wait until the 24/10 at the earliest really.

not too much of an issue as were away on holiday from the 14th.

Got mine today, just reinstalling windows after putting SSD in place.

garyfl · 27 Sep 2011 at 17:13

a lot of people are buying them from the outlet and making a premium on the bay, i noticed this because in a listing they made the mistake of showing the imfamous bland outlet box. and with first hand experience on sleling a pc on ebay, you dont get stung much with fees, its a flat rate of £40 on anything electrical, so if hes buying it from the outlet for £900 and people are bidding £1280 which ive sen theyre making a pretty penny.

Jay794 · 27 Sep 2011 at 17:16

I've love to run the Alienware OS on my machine without shelling out for an Alienware PC. I know you can just use skinning software but you can't beat the real thing

Metalface Mark · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:39

Jay794 said:
I've love to run the Alienware OS on my machine without shelling out for an Alienware PC. I know you can just use skinning software but you can't beat the real thing

Theres no alienware OS, they just come with an alienware wallpaper and software for controlling the lights.

Datamonkey · 27 Sep 2011 at 20:46

garyfl said:
a lot of people are buying them from the outlet and making a premium on the bay, i noticed this because in a listing they made the mistake of showing the imfamous bland outlet box. and with first hand experience on sleling a pc on ebay, you dont get stung much with fees, its a flat rate of £40 on anything electrical, so if hes buying it from the outlet for £900 and people are bidding £1280 which ive sen theyre making a pretty penny.

Thats base spec, and from the states. Just had a quick look

garyfl · 27 Sep 2011 at 20:50

Datamonkey said:
Thats base spec, and from the states. Just had a quick look

what do you mean ? there sone on the bay based in uk its going for £1240 atm 3 hours left, i emailed him and he told me he was a dell trader

Metalface Mark · 27 Sep 2011 at 22:04

garyfl said:
what do you mean ? there sone on the bay based in uk its going for £1240 atm 3 hours left, i emailed him and he told me he was a dell trader

Its not a bad profit, that was going for about £900 on the outlet.

Metalface Mark · 27 Sep 2011 at 22:08

Fingers crossed, i think i might be working now after the ssd bios upgrade.

Jay794 · 28 Sep 2011 at 06:56

Metalface Mark said:
Theres no alienware OS, they just come with an alienware wallpaper and software for controlling the lights.

I thought it was a fully modified version of Windows? Because the icons and start menu are all skinned? is it just the shell thats modified or does it come bundled with something like Windows Blinds to skin it?

Metalface Mark · 28 Sep 2011 at 11:59

Jay794 said:
I thought it was a fully modified version of Windows? Because the icons and start menu are all skinned? is it just the shell thats modified or does it come bundled with something like Windows Blinds to skin it?

Theres no skin on them, just the wallpaper.

garyfl · 28 Sep 2011 at 12:01

would it be fairly easy to instlal my m4 ssd guys ? funny thing is ill get better performance from the laptop as i would have my previous i7 setup with marvel, does the mx range have good sata 3 speeds ?