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Dell's Gaming Monster
Carpoolio writes "TechTV has a good first look at the new Dell Inspiron XPS -- the company's first foray into portable gaming systems. The notebook -- a beast at 9 pounds -- puts the company squarely against the likes of Alienware. The price tag is steep, too, at $3,350. Are you buying?"
I remember back when that would've been a super lightweight notebook.
Aaah...it seems Dell is going after the coveted gamers-who-leave-the-basement demographic...
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But can it run Tetris?
At nine pounds thats the cheapest machine I've seen in ages - or are we not all talking British?
For that much money, I think I'd rather own a car
Marty! This thing must take One-point-twenty-one-Giga-watts!
blarg.
is $3350 cheaper than the $1599, $1999, or $2999 powerbook? Or the $1099 iBook G4? Oh yeah, I forgot it comes with a pentium, so I guess it's cheaper than all of them.
at that price point it had better come with a firewire vagina.
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Games like Warcraft 3, and ummmm that puzzle game with the apple logo! I mean, I beat it but, it's still fun!
I've never "baugh" anything at all.
The person who told you that spelling doesn't matter was wrong.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
tell that to the bald guy in the airplane seat ahead of you while you project Quake on the back of his head. Oh wait, you're right -- it is ten times the fun!
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...when you're rolling it down the concourse.
The fact that you've got to roll the damn "laptop" down the concourse instead of carrying doesn't make it a desktop replacement; it makes it a fucking expensive desktop with inferior parts.
Hey, there are plenty of great games for the Mac! Breakout, superbreakout.... photoshop.
I think this is the most amazing fact from the product line up.
*Subwoofer integrated into battery*
IMO, buying a laptop is the height of stupidity.
Yeah, my desktop w/ 19" monitor works great when I'm on the plane. Sure, I get a few funny looks from the flight crew, but I can't understand why anybody would bother with a laptop when desktops are so much cheaper.
It's also really cool using a desktop while in the john.
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That one at least went vroom vrooom
Complaints stopped, and the execs had to carry more bags and more total weight to bring all the crap they brought before.
Man, are people annoying.
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It better not be ultra-wide, either
No sound card,speakers,monitor, or keyboard? What kind of gaming can you do on that?
It's an apples to oranges comparison.
Judging from the comments on the article, it's more of an Apples to Dells comparison.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Hey, there are plenty of great games for the Mac! Breakout, superbreakout.... photoshop.
Yeah, the end guy is hard.
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Emachines? Respectible? Good lord! You must be kidding. Put down the crack pipe!
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Can you fry an egg on it before the battery runs out?
If you really wanted to get serious, you should take tips from this guy; I'll take this one any day :)
Maybe you should move your head to a respectable viewing distance away from the monitor. Like, say, more than your current 5 inches.
Are you buying?
Never. Will not touch an x86 ever again.
And certainly not from Dell.