alienware laptop purchase question

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sillystripper

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I'm a woman and thusly don't know if this is a decent deal or not. I think it is because that processing power is awesome and I think that those 2 100g hard drives acting in RAID 0 is even MORE awesome (don't care about having a backup hard drive). But everything else is questionable, and amazon.com has some pretty crappy reviews of this particular piece.

I'm ready to pick this laptop up this week from that guy, but if any of you guys can give me your 2cents I'd much appreciate it.. or at least let me know whether or not 600$ for a 4 year old laptop is worth it.


http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/sys/1910915770.html
 
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I would go with no, it is a alienware but the gpu is out of date. I probably could find you a new laptop with better specs then that for the price.
 
That's a Pentium 4 system, dude...way too old. You could get a new laptop with more than twice the power that thing has for $600.

Heck, even a dual-core netbook would whoop that thing.
 
thanks guys, so that's definitely a no.. I also saw that the m7700 (and probz alienware laptops in general?) stick the capacitor right next to the processor, so they both heat/overheat each other and so the motherboard might eventually overheat and die, as was the problem for quite a few of them I hear. And they also have a terrible heat dissipation system apparently.

I've been reading up some more, seems like Asus is the brand to go with overall. But obviously I'm gonna research the shit out of everything.

And uhh.. don't know much about processor hardware, I just thought the amt of GHz was crucial :$

But hell yes, suggestions are welcome.
 
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GHz only matters when you're looking at the exact same architecture. That one in particular was a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, and can only be compared GHz-to-GHz against another Pentium 4 of the same type. Pentium 4's in general are, for the GHz, slower than most any other modern architecture. Terribly inefficient. When they were released, pentium 3's were actually faster. For example, a 3GHz P4 is only equivalent to something like a 2-to-2.2GHz Core 2 solo, if I remember right. (solo = single core)

Basically, pentium 4's had a high clock speed but didn't do much with it. They sold well because they did well in marketing.
 
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