Hi every one. Im an easy going kind of guy. I like meeting new people going out and generally having...
Hi every one. Im an easy going kind of guy. I like meeting new people going out and generally having a laugh. I cm currently at college studying Electronic Engineering. Im a very physically active person who likes to keep fit and healthy.
Member since:13.10.2002
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Well I thought that I would sell my decktop and purchase an alienware area 51 7700.
All the reviews have told me that these are good machines, which convinced me to buy one.
when i first got the laptop and turned it on i was shocked to find out how slow and laggy it was. Especially the games. It had a P4 3Gig processor with 512 ram and a X800 ATI card. Now you would think it could cope with call of duty. It did but not very well.
So i stuck 2GB Kingston DDR2 ram in it. Well it speeded it up, but the game play was still way behind my desktop (which was no where near as powerfull).
So i then decided in a last vain attempt to increase performance i would put two hard drives in it on a raid. This also speeded up the loading. But the games were still lagging.
All i can think is that it was just not upto the power requirements of the games. Unless the graphics were set to low. Which for me or any other game player is just not good enough.
Oh if you want to run it off the battery forgett it. The games are almost unplayable. The battery will only last an hour if you are extreamly lucky. You cant even watch a full dvd on it.
I did all this during the corse of sending the laptop back to alien ware 4 times for repairs. Once i wasgetting electric shocks off the from, another time it kept over heating, and it was those faults that eventually got repaired, 6 months down the line.
I would suggest that if you would like to buy a laptop then do not buy an alienware. All you pay for is the name, they lack in real power and performance. Leave your game play to your desk top which i have now rebuilt.
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(+) cool and quite robust trackpad, good display,64-bit windows 7 (-) few connectors,dell drivers only, not realy for gameing (most models), finger print prone!
Jan 26th, 2006
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