http://www.alienware.com/build_vs_buy_pages/index.aspx

Alienware's propeganda about how its so much superior to building your own machine.

I got a good chuckle out of this.

All depends on whos building it.

BUAHAHAHAHAHAH

They called Newegg unreliable.

Hehe.
I bought and built a computer in 1 week.... Of course if fed ex shipped it right, I could have done it in 2 days :p

Bah, Style my arse. I like a freaking Rugrats casemod better than their cases...

Overpriced bastards!

I was waiting on the section labeled "price" but I never saw it. And then there's always the fact that I built a system for half what my buddy paid for his alienware, and my system scored a higher 3d mark than his... by a lot. I spent the extra money on surround sound speakers.

LOL. I paid a total of $585US for the components to my computer, with rebates reducing it to $475. The only things excluded from it were a video card (I'm currently holding on to a rusty Radeon7000), the floppy drive (which has been "permanently borrowed" from a "indefinitely retired" computer), and the I/O devices, since my machine was a replacement for my old one. An Athlon64, 512MB of 400Mhz RAM, and 90GB HDD can't be all that bad for that price... That reminds me the the EMachines that my local Wal-Mart is selling for $698US (+6% tax)... They've got:

• Intel Celeron Prescott 2.66Ghz (incredibly crappy; about as good as a AthlonXP 2000+)
• 256MB PC2100 266Mhz DDR (Too little)
• 40GB HDD (Too tiny)
• Integrated Graphics (t34 sux0r5)
• 17" CRT monitor (only half-decent component in the system)
• 100+ spyware/adware programs (including a minimum of 7 offers for AOL!)

I liked the list of comparisons, especially the "First-to-market", "Upgradability", "Build Time", anything related to "Shipping", and "Retail Purchases". Let's take a look:

• First-To-Market:WTF is with these claims? They have only VIA chipset motherboards, and very poor selection for most other things. Only 5 video cards are availible.
• Upgradability: OEM computers have always been a nightmare to upgrade; they're built to inhibit any attempts at it, and often won't work with many generic types of hardware, requiring their own proprietary components. I know that my system will accep virtually any components that fit the specifications (such as only 8x AGP graphic cards, or any type of DDR memory)
• Shipping: This is laughable. My components took but 3 days to arrive, and I only needed another 3 days to get the systems together and working.
• Retail Purchases: and OEM manufacturer tries to make a lie about the mbeing cheaper? How amusing. A system comparable to the one I made cannot be brought below $1,000US, and I notices they were chargin twice as much for their USB flash drives as they were worth.

I'd rather go through the extra trouble and save the money. I got my Barton 2500 six months ago (512mb DDR400, 9600XT, other goodies) for about $600 CAD, before rebates (I just $50 back last week, I'm still waiting for anyother $30). It might have taken an evening to put together and to install everything, but I think it's worth going through the trouble save hundreds of dollars.

Ah, yes, very good system setup; probably what I'd reccomend the most. Are you reffering to Canadian dollars with the "CAD"? If so, you did succeed in getting nice prices. If not, I presume it was a full system.

Yeah, Canadian dollars. I thought "CAD" was standard for that, although I might be wrong.

hehe, I loved the part about "Style" and obviously if you're building one yourself you have to have a generic grey box. :p

First-To-Market Screen

"Building a system on your own means not having the kind of exclusive relationships with vendors that are needed in order to secure the latest components ahead of everyone else. Instead, you are forced to wait until components become more widely available on the market before you can attempt to track them all down."

Then when you go actually customize one, and ask for the estimated ship date, they tack on about 30 days because of unavailability of the video card and processor.

Gotta love it.

I thoughtpart of the reason people built their own computers did so because they liked doing so and such

I have to agree with that comment.

Unreliable my ***. I purchsed my $700.91 machine in early August. They told me everything would arrive 3 days later. I got it a day early. That isn't just reliable, that's freaking awesome.

<3 newegg

I got my Athlon 64 and motherboard 3 days early from them


Wow, that "Generic Grey Box" part had my rolling out of my chair

And why the hell is alienware of all PC makers talking about their systems being cheaper by indivdual OEM parts. It's not like by building yourself you dont have the ability to buy OEM. They make it sound like they have exclusive access.

Plus their systems are rediculously overpriced. That is the funniest piece of crap I have read in a long time