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Hey guys recently been thinking about buying the new Alienware M17x r3.0 which is a Complete beast of a laptop, but comes with a hefty price tag of $3,999 !! <BR><BR><BR>They sell them alot cheaper in the states which just gives me a sad face =( <BR>Would it be wise to buy from the states and import it here or wait until dell actually get better prices, or even yet, look for another Beast laptop from another company >.< although I haven't found anything as close as alienware M17x <BR>The only other option was the G73jh by ASUS but when I go on the ASUS website gives me no choice in customization and the specs and tech seem to be outdated by alienware laptops! <BR><BR><BR><BR>any wise words out here? :rolleyes:

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lol seems like im the only one whos GF throws shoes at him if he plays games =P :domokun:

nothing wrong with MMO's so long as you mix it with COD and diablo 3 when it comes out =P

but back to buying a Gaming Laptop! >.<

From the point of importing a laptop you wont be able to ship the Lithium ion battery by airmail.

I recently had a Netbook sent from Australia to Japan and had no problems whatsoever apart from the battery (Australia doesnt do surface transport to Japan so I am just running off mains at the moment). It cost under $50 and took about a week.

you guys are making things up as you go lol

apparently Dell just dropped $400 off the M17x R3.0, and in February they will give the Australian customers options such as in America so they can chop and change cpu ram etc.

will definitely consider this if they drop the price below $2999, or might just end up with a desktop from msy >.<

cheers

From the point of importing a laptop you wont be able to ship the Lithium ion battery by airmail.

I recently had a Netbook sent from Australia to Japan and had no problems whatsoever apart from the battery (Australia doesnt do surface transport to Japan so I am just running off mains at the moment). It cost under $50 and took about a week.

Thanks mate, i phoned dell and they said the only way I can send a dell product is if a third party buys it in America and then packs it and sends it to Australia, they love to make things difficult.

Way cheaper in the USA even worth flying there and bringing one back which is what I did, I didnt go with the alienware but with Sager instead as they had the GTX280 vs Alienware's GTX260.

Check out this website www.xoticpc.com they have some crazy computers. I dont think they deliver to AUS but I could be wrong.

Cheers

Ray

you guys are making things up as you go lol

apparently Dell just dropped $400 off the M17x R3.0, and in February they will give the Australian customers options such as in America so they can chop and change cpu ram etc.

will definitely consider this if they drop the price below $2999, or might just end up with a desktop from msy >.<

cheers

not true, we buy alienware laptops for some of the guys in our department (IT), and they simply do not discount, compared to the massive savings we get on our Optiplex and Latitude units, even on Poweredge servers!

As for the comment about GTX280 and 260 etc, that shit is old guys, 4xx series has been out for a while now.

That said, I'm not a huge fan of "desktop replacement" laptops, as you'll never get near the performance of a gaming desktop (btw the older Alienwares have gay ass speedstep settings that you need a third party tool to circumvent when on AC power)

Thanks mate, i phoned dell and they said the only way I can send a dell product is if a third party buys it in America and then packs it and sends it to Australia, they love to make things difficult.

No worries. Good luck with whatever way you decide to go. Do plenty of research - I would have rather have bought a netbook in Japan to save the hassle but it would have cost about $350, new ones on American Ebay were the same. I ended up buying mine new for $200 in Australia so it worked out way cheaper even with postage. You really have to research the specific product you want rather than accept generalisations like America is cheaper for computers or whatever (which it sounds like you are doing heaps of research anyway). I can definitely understand about wanting a portable PC. I dont even really miss not having an optical drive - most periphal drivers are on the net nowadays and there are plenty of free programs available too. Then there is always Daemon tools when you need a virtual drive - of course its a different story with a gaming machine. Hopefully it all works out for you. Oh by the way if you do get one transported I recommend not worrying about postage tracking, I got it on mine and I had the netbook in my hands before the tracking said it had left Australia, absolute waste of money (not that its expensive but it is absolutely useless).

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I find gaming laptops silly, but thats just me, and I am sure someone will flame me down for it.

If I had that money, ide build a crazy desktop, and with the remaining money (which you could have plenty of unless you go absolutely overkill), ide then buy a cheap, yet decent laptop.

lol i started this thread in Jan......

I didnt end up buying any type of computer, decided to wait until Q4 hopefully someting better comes out.

this month the Asus G74 laptop came out price is about $1600 and eats alienware in performance with its 560m - 580m gpu's

  • 3 weeks later...

I just bought a M17x R3. Being delivered tomorrow.

Got it for $2560 after a nice big discount from Dell

Core i7 2.2ghz

8gb 1333 ram

Radeon 6990m

2 X 750gb 7200rpm HDD (RAID 0)

blu ray slot load player

windows 7 ultimate

and lots of other goodies.

Dell does try and rip you off though! To upgrade to 16gb ram from 8gb was $330 if i bought the upgrade from Dell, so i just went out and bought 8gb 1333 DDR3 notebook ram for $64 and will install it myself.

That reminds me, spotted a tall bloke at MSY on Saturday in a SAU GTR jumper! :thumbsup:

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