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New Alienware PC an Overpriced Underperformer
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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I recently purchased a pc from http://www.ibuypower.com/ for less money then I would have payed building it myself and far cheaper then anything from Alienware. I dont think anyone needs to pay that much for a fancy case. anyone who wants a fancy case that bad should be able to make one.
I often have trouble remembering which way is out of bed in the morning.
Just grow up, will ya? Guess not.
When expecting to find intelligence in a person, do not look at their age but instead look at their IQ and maturity firs
Off once more, but I have to say "health tourism" is definately a cheerful way of looking at a permanent side effect to your system. So while health spending accounts and direct negotiating drive prices downward, yours will be entrenched in a permanent government tax-grab.
The little know secret about US healthcare is that if you walk into a US hospital they *will* treat you regardless of whether or not you have money. What's more, if you pay for your own services you can negotiate the price to what you would reasonably expect or settle the larger debts for 50% or below. It just requires a backbone.
And I suppose the national debt would keep me up at night if it were my own, but as the name suggests, it belongs to the nation. Again, another misunderstanding you have - The national debt is a credit line extended to US corporations backed by the rest of the world. The government extends money to companies and keeps consumer taxes low which causes spending towards the corporations. The backers get a healthy return on their money. If the US aggressively paid off the national debt and got it back to zero an excessive amount of potential would be pulled from the world market. For what? not much. Almost immediately re-leveraging would occur to put that energy back in play. So you can either store your money on the shelf in pint sized containers and marvel at your pile or keep it in the system and use it at the expense of your comfort. It's $27000 per person. That's less than the SUV in front of me, so don't let the big numbers scare you so.
And in case anyone has missed the fact that you live in the UK, I'll emphasize that point now and remind you that England is the one who turned over the Palestine territories to Israeli colonists, screwed up the national borders between India and Pakistan and is not even remotely capable of the retaliation and impact the US has had on the region from which the terrorists came.
But as far as UK endeavors go - Whatever happened to that little Mars thing you had there for a bit - The Beagle 2 or something? Did you ever get it to bark?
You are checking your backups, aren't you?