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[ssgharkness020147]

NO NO NO. Not kick but, piece of ****. I have one, its a 2700.00 dollar custom built piece of crap. Nothing but problems since the second I took it out of the box. Screen problems, it always flickers or blacks out til you smack it. CD/DVD burner does not work, oh and now the drive does not work at all. Constant BIOS issues because of a Belkin card. So on and so on. And as far as customer service went it was always send it in. So I sent it in over and over, and it never came back totally fixed. I'll never buy another nor will I ever reccomend them. It too bad too, they make some great looking laptops, especially the new ones; dual internal hard drives etc...

Originally Posted by evldave

Alienware - kick butt, but too much $$ since I also have a desktop for all the serious stuff.

[HummBebe]

Originally Posted by ssgharkness020147

NO NO NO. Not kick but, piece of ****. I have one, its a 2700.00 dollar custom built piece of crap. Nothing but problems since the second I took it out of the box. Screen problems, it always flickers or blacks out til you smack it. CD/DVD burner does not work, oh and now the drive does not work at all. Constant BIOS issues because of a Belkin card. So on and so on. And as far as customer service went it was always send it in. So I sent it in over and over, and it never came back totally fixed. I'll never buy another nor will I ever reccomend them. It too bad too, they make some great looking laptops, especially the new ones; dual internal hard drives etc...

I have to disagree....mine is fabulous. I heart teh Area 51

[evldave]

Originally Posted by HummBebe

I have to disagree....mine is fabulous. I heart teh Area 51

Gonna have to go look at this. What model do you have? Flip it over, look for a UL in a circle and tell me what the 4 digits (numbers & letters) to the lower right of the circle are, if there's another number starting with E######, give me that too (PM me on that).

[HummBebe]

I have the Desktop, and it's using our 44" DLP Front projection TV as a Monitor.

Alienware Area 51, it's about a year old. It's got an Alien head on the front cover that glows green.

http://www.alienware.com/product_det...de=SKU-DEFAULT

[f5fstop]

Actually found a great sale at circuit city yesterday, and purchased a HP; AMD Turion 64 ML-37 (2.0 GHz), 2 GB RAM, 120 HD, Radeon 128M video board, wireless with bluetooth, 15.4 brightview screen, and a lightscripe DVD/CD burner reader. After $250.00 in rebates final cost will be $1050.00
Also included one of those 6/1 card readers, but get this, it will not read Compact Flash cards. That does not make sense to me, since CF is one of the most popular, and all that I use, so except for the additional USB and Firewire port, this card reader is worthless.
Still loading and updating the software. Took me almost two hours just to load on all my GPS software and confirm everything worked, but I sure do love that brightview, wide screen, and it is a lot faster than my old Toshiba.

[Aubs]

I always liked the HP laptops. I hope it works well for you!

[DRTYFN]

Originally posted by Fredrick "Ogre" Poliwatski
NERDS!!!