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Post by dagger on Sept 19, 2012 17:01:44 GMT -5
I already bitch about this in TeamSpeak, but for those that havent' heard it yet.. Dont buy alienware, seriously. I have a Mm18x laptop that has had the LCD screen go out 3 times now, and its in for its third repair. I wont have my system back for a week or more, so I'll be AWOL until I can get it back  . Ill pop on from work once in a while to get a match or two between jobs but I'll be scarce outside the forums. |
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Post by Ronald "Macheiron" Maker on Sept 19, 2012 17:18:46 GMT -5
You're not AWOL, Leave has already been granted for this...  |
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Post by nikoliy on Sept 19, 2012 18:11:34 GMT -5
Alienware did take a big dive in quality when Dell took over....
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Post by Maarek "Steel" Stele on Sept 19, 2012 18:17:33 GMT -5
That is a major bummer to hear... Hate to hear stuff like that...
Who makes the best gaming notebooks now then?
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Post by Rilenn on Sept 19, 2012 22:48:20 GMT -5
I dont know about best, but I've been having good luck with my Dell XPS 15
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Post by dagger on Sept 19, 2012 23:06:10 GMT -5
I dont know about best, but I've been having good luck with my Dell XPS 15 As my personal machine, I have the XPS17 and I love it. Sadly it doesn't have enough horsepower to run Mechwarrior ... damn work machines. The Alienware was a demo unit they gave me as a "Hey, we heard you talking trash about out stuff at your booth, please dont, and heres a laptop so you can see how good it is".. Talk about backfiring. |
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Post by flametrace on Sept 20, 2012 12:29:12 GMT -5
My AsusG74Sx Is good. Expensive, ($1,300 USD or so at Best Buy) but it can run pretty much anything without lag. Just for when/if you plan on getting a new laptop.
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Post by Ronald "Macheiron" Maker on Sept 20, 2012 18:56:41 GMT -5
I've actually had some really bad experience with ASUS laptops, and with their repair service for them.
They never did fix mine.
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Post by flametrace on Sept 20, 2012 19:48:50 GMT -5
Eh, mine hasn't really broken. I just went to best buy and got it fixed when the keyboard went wacky, so... Don't know what to say there.
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Post by Ronald "Macheiron" Maker on Sept 21, 2012 3:47:01 GMT -5
My issues were a little more... Catastrophic. VRAM failure, intermittent partial display failure, charger malfunction and batter failure within a year... and yeah, keys popping off the keyboard.
All issues were present simultaneously, and I had to sent it in twice to get the VRAM issue resolved. They never did fix the charge circuit, and they screen still flips out all the time. I'm not about to give Asus more money for that piece of crap. So yeah, I don't like Asus laptops.
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Post by Maarek "Steel" Stele on Sept 21, 2012 10:02:31 GMT -5
I don't know about many of the notebooks out there, but for work, I've had good luck with thinkpads and yes even since lenovo took over. I have a friend at a "not to be named, massive company" who heads up EMC test and he reports lenovo/thinkpad laptops have the lowest emmisions accross the board and put to the test all others fail that test, not that that means much to us, just is a sign of some extra care in the design engineering in IMHO...
I've also been impressed from what I have seen with Samsung products, and to some extent toshiba..
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Post by dagger on Sept 27, 2012 1:25:58 GMT -5
Finally got the Alienware machine back. .. well.. most of it. Turns out they replaced:
- Motherboard
- Video card(s)
- LCD cable
- LCD panel
... really? We cant figure out whats wrong so we just replace everything?
They left a note.. "No hard drives?".. yeah right. As if I'd send my HDs to them so they can access them unsupervised..
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. Ill pop on from work once in a while to get a match or two between jobs but I'll be scarce outside the forums.
