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New Alienware PC an Overpriced Underperformer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the woomp-there-it-was dept.

Steve Kerrison writes "Alienware has jumped on board the Core 2 bandwagon and rightfully so, but their new Area-51 7500 loses out to cheaper and faster solutions from other companies. From HEXUS.net's review 'No matter which way we dress up the Alienware's performance and feature-set, it's relatively poor in comparison to SKUs that we've reviewed recently. Value for money may not be the greatest concern in this sector of the pre-built market but when you can get substantially more for less, it becomes impossible to recommend this particular Area-51 7500.' "

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  1. Hey, you all ride Harleys, drive SUVs by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Overpriced underperformance is the American way. What are you complaining about?

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    1. Re:Hey, you all ride Harleys, drive SUVs by 955301 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


      No I don't. I drive a toyota corolla and ride a mountain bike. Stop listening to stereotypes. I don't suppose you have a subset of your country's population taking advantage of it and being wasteful do you? Squatters on a socialized healthcare system? Excessive and ridiculous taxing? train bombings?

      I'll take getting stuck behind an SUV any day.

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  2. Bigger and better by Colin+Smith · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, instead of some health tourism, you have either insanely high medical insurance or none at all, you have an unimaginably large national debt instead of high taxation and since you mention it, you managed to allow terrorists to take out a couple of buildings as opposed to sneaking on to some trains.

    Yup, you don't half do things bigger and better over there. Good luck behind that SUV.

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