So I have decided to order a custom Alienware computer.

[natty]

I think of it like cars. You pay a hefty premium for a new car just as you do for a bleeding edge computer. Buy a car that's a couple years old and the savings are tremendous. Lets say you pay 2K for a machine that lasts 6 years but pay 1K for something that lasts 5 years. Was that 1 year worth it?

[Darth Biscuit]

I think of it like cars. You pay a hefty premium for a new car just as you do for a bleeding edge computer. Buy a car that's a couple years old and the savings are tremendous. Lets say you pay 2K for a machine that lasts 6 years but pay 1K for something that lasts 5 years. Was that 1 year worth it?

I just don't think that's a correct analogy though... I've had both really high end and mediocre computers. The mediocre ones seem to go downhill a whole lot faster than the really high end ones... I think your analogy would be a lot closer to reality at like 2K/6 years, 1K/3 years.

[natty]

I just don't think that's a correct analogy though... I've had both really high end and mediocre computers. The mediocre ones seem to go downhill a whole lot faster than the really high end ones... I think your analogy would be a lot closer to reality at like 2K/6 years, 1K/3 years.

Well you're talking about the quality of a product. I'm talking about buying the same exact product a year later.

[Darth Biscuit]

Well you're talking about the quality of a product. I'm talking about buying the same exact product a year later.

OK, yeah... so is that $1K worth waiting 12 months? I guess that depends on your situation?

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I'm the last person to say build a pc.

But before you buy alienware...

Build your own pc.

[g5jamz]

Too much money.

If you thought depreciation was bad with cars...think of pcs.

Build our own...or just buy a level down.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

There's some guys on here that can list you everything you want, link it to you from tigerdirect or newegg so you can just build your own i7 for much cheaper than an alienware.

The only way to get an i7 cheaper is to find a refurb or prebuilt on sale, which does happen.

I'm not one of those dudes though because that's just too much work for me to do for free.

[Scrumtrilescent]

Dual quad core Xeon Nehelems or GTFO.

[PanthaSan]

I don't get it. Why buy a new computer when you have one already?

My 386DX has been running fine and I will never replace it until it breaks...

[Samuel L. Jackson]

law school?

Do I get free services, should I ever need them?

[SmootsDaddy89]

Because a lot of the stuff I have is outdated. I'm using a geforce 7950 GX2, which is a dinosaur by GPU standards. Most games I can still play, but with a number of them I can only run them on low or medium settings.

[SmootsDaddy89]

law school?

Do I get free services, should I ever need them?

haha probably not. At least not until I establish myself.:bigear:

[Samuel L. Jackson]

Is "Yes they deserved to die and I hope the burn in Hell" a suitable testimony?

[Guild]

Because a lot of the stuff I have is outdated. I'm using a geforce 7950 GX2, which is a dinosaur by GPU standards. Most games I can still play, but with a number of them I can only run them on low or medium settings.

I have a 2.8 GHZ Pentium 4 and an 8600 GTX. I feel your pain. I can barely even run modern games now. Mass Effect 2 plays but it rapes my processor.