I had a predecessor of this as well- I am a business traveller who has to build databases and such (and game, yes) on the road weeks or months at a time.
So it seemed like a good idea.
Screen flicker problem- never solved, despite them even sending a dude to my location (though he did manage to break the little LEDs in the alien's eyeballs.)
Hard drive problem- never solved. System halted (utterly-not even Winders Event Viewer knew it happened) every time I tried to access my secondary drive.
Told me I could send in my machine and they would send it back in a month or so. Even though, since it was my work machine, I paid for the uber bidness support.
They got bought by Dell. Their build quality and support both went straight down the drain right about then. I wouldn't buy an Alienware at this point if they moved the decimal to the left a place.
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Called my Alienware the Craptop
I had a predecessor of this as well- I am a business traveller who has to build databases and such (and game, yes) on the road weeks or months at a time.
So it seemed like a good idea.
Screen flicker problem- never solved, despite them even sending a dude to my location (though he did manage to break the little LEDs in the alien's eyeballs.)
Hard drive problem- never solved. System halted (utterly-not even Winders Event Viewer knew it happened) every time I tried to access my secondary drive.
Told me I could send in my machine and they would send it back in a month or so. Even though, since it was my work machine, I paid for the uber bidness support.
They got bought by Dell. Their build quality and support both went straight down the drain right about then. I wouldn't buy an Alienware at this point if they moved the decimal to the left a place.