I really hate my COMPAQ and my mom wants it so...I am in the market for a gaming laptop.

This deal popped up but I have no experience or knowledge of Alienware other than it is made for gaming. I just bought SC2 too.

Should I get this deal?

HELP! I have issues with buying laptops and have som bad technological curse.... -__-

https://ecomm2.dell.com/dellstore/basket.aspx?c=us&cs=6099&l=en&s=eep&itemtype=CFG&oid=69e4c41c-07bc-4d78-8796-78419843c11f#~1

cemlions

Canada43 Posts

July 29 2010 04:48 GMT

I went to the link and was told I had to sign in to view your shopping cart.

nayumi

Australia6499 Posts

July 29 2010 04:53 GMT

Do you really need a laptop?

I mean why not a desktop instead? It's cheaper and better for gaming.

LimitlessSky

United States434 Posts

July 29 2010 04:55 GMT

@ Cemlions: Ooops. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=6099&l=en&oc=DKCWNN1&s=eep&m_3=4GB&dgc=CJ&cid=24471&lid=566643&acd=10550055-1225267-u0t0f0fp37336c0s441

@ Nayumi- I travel a lot between my divorces famililes' homes and school. It'd be nice to play games when I am away.

LimitlessSky

United States434 Posts

July 29 2010 05:04 GMT

The link for the deal

http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/37336/alienware-m11x-laptop-core-i5-520um-1.066-ghz,-11.6-wide-hd-1366x768-wled,-160gb-hdd,-4gb-ddr3,-1gb-nvidia-geforce-gt-335m,-webcam,-win-7-prem?&page=8#comments

caelym

United States6430 Posts

July 29 2010 05:22 GMT

gaahh it is so tempting. i also want to buy the more powerful envy15 with a SSD and HD display. but that's double the price. what do?

terr0r

United States90 Posts

July 29 2010 05:24 GMT

To be honest, that looks like it's just a souped up netbook. It has a good GFX card, processor, and a nice amount of ram. The problem is it's only an 11 inch screen and a 160 GB hard drive. That stuff fills fast when you play a lot of SC and do anything else on it.

Illusion.

United States348 Posts

July 29 2010 05:37 GMT

no... buy this im using it right now for college, it plays almost every new game this year on max settings including starcraft.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834146777&cm_re=y560-_-34-146-777-_-Product

thhere is a 850$ version

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

July 29 2010 05:59 GMT

It's 11 inches. You'll hate it just like everyone who have made the mistake of buying such a small laptop to play games.

semantics

10040 Posts

July 29 2010 06:10 GMT

#10

On July 29 2010 14:59 Djzapz wrote:
It's 11 inches. You'll hate it just like everyone who have made the mistake of buying such a small laptop to play games.

It would play games it would even play sc2 porb at medium for that resolution, i only wish the cpu was a bit more. That gpu is fine and the resolution isn't to large, with turbo boost it can play sc2 quite fine on medium i would bet. I just don't like how it's using a power saver cpu.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

July 29 2010 06:14 GMT

#11

The CPU is pretty decent though, I'd bet you can run SC2 on high with physics on low, but then again it's only because the resolution is so low... It's certainly not worth $850 though.

semantics

10040 Posts

July 29 2010 06:17 GMT

#12

Haha well some people pay for that extra portability not worth that 850 to me but i've seen people do worse.

Also with the deal its 750 which makes it a bit sweeter and i mean for that price it's not a bad deal if you will be lugging the thing around alot.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

July 29 2010 06:19 GMT

#13

I guess so... I use a 15.6" and it's portable enough to me =P

semantics

10040 Posts

July 29 2010 06:34 GMT

#14

On July 29 2010 15:19 Djzapz wrote:
I guess so... I use a 15.6" and it's portable enough to me =P

That's at the edge of portability for me i use a 13" i used to have a 15.6" i didn't like it so much ofc that's me lugging it around every day, weight doesn't matter to me it's a matter of how cumbersome something is.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

July 29 2010 07:15 GMT

#15

13" is a lot more reasonable than 11" imo =P