Alienware anyone?

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Just curious if anyone here uses an alienware desktop or laptop for their recording. Whats your specs and whats your results?
 
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo don't use alienwareeeeeeeeeeee. Totally overpriced. It hurts my balls just thinking about it. I compared my comp (built myself w/ parts from tigerdirect.com) with Alienwares best module and it took a huge shit on it and still wouldn't acknowledge its existance. I saved atleast $3000! FUCK ALIENWARE

Sorry...too much coffee this morning...
 
Yes, Alienware PC"s are FAR over priced and are really just normal Parts in a Fancy Case and you don"t need all of that Flash for PC Recording......

They are Good PC"s but you can make a simular PC yourself for a small fraction of the Price....

I would say Build your own and spend the Money you saved on some good recording equipment....

Cheers
 
No no no, I'm not buying a new one. I bought a used one from a web design guy. Paid $1k for it.
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Area-51m Chassis with 15.4" WideSXGA+ 1680x1050 LCD Display
Saucer Silver Magnesium Alloy Chassis
Intel Pentium 4 Processor at 2.8GHz 800MHz FSB w/512KB Cache
SiS648FX + SiS963L AGP8x Chipset Motherboard
1GB DDR PC-2700 (2 DIMMs)
40GB 5400 RPM ATA100 Hard Drive
Area-51M NVidia FX GO5600 Video Card with 128MB DDR
Sound-Blaster Pro Compatible 3d Audio
2x1x8x DVD-RW/16x10x24x CD-RW Combo Drive
Integrated 10/100Mb Ethernet NIC
Media remote control

I also bought a 500 gb LaCie external the other day. It has USB, I thought it had firewire too but I don't see the port for it. Does anyone know if it uses that same port but with a firewire cable instead?
 
If there is no firewire onboard then thats that. Firewire cards are cheap, so i would not worry about it
 
Alienware is for money. and its a waste, really. who gives a damn about the looks. if you want performance, build a system yourself. really easy and cheap.
 
A guy I work with has an Alienware laptop, I am pretty jealous of (speed wise). He says it's dual 3.6ghz but something tells me that it's prob dual core. Anyways still very over priced at the $5K he paid for it over a year ago. However now that Dell has bought them out, there might be a price drop (or not).
 
mentalattica said:
A guy I work with has an Alienware laptop, I am pretty jealous of (speed wise). He says it's dual 3.6ghz but something tells me that it's prob dual core. Anyways still very over priced at the $5K he paid for it over a year ago. However now that Dell has bought them out, there might be a price drop (or not).
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A quality drop as well.

I would recommend that you find someone in your area that specializes in audio pc's and give them a call. You will still be paying higher than you would pay to build it yourself, but the expertise is worth it.

I was fortuane to have a company here in Wisconsin recomended to me by one of the people who works in the sound room at John Deere. They also service quite a few of the radio stations around here as well as other large manufacturing plants.

The machines that they build have to run ALL DAY EVERY DAY without failure.

I called the guy and had a little sit-down with him and another tech and some of the things that they told me blew my mind about what we THINK is good in a recording pc and what actually IS. They have never built machines in the consumer market before, and mine will be the first. But all I did was spur them to begin something they have been researching for a year now.

I will post more details when I have time, but basically what it comes down to is they research every different part and test them a hundred different ways. Sometimes they end up even going with cheaper parts somewhere in the setup because of the way it works well with the other parts. All of these have an effect on the performance. Many things we think are great can actually hurt you, like the way that high-end video cards can pull system resources away from other things. Or the way that some motherboards (big name ones too) are set up with the SATA tied to the PCI bus so all your nice fast hard drive does is bog down your sound card.

It was eye-opening.

In my case it is being set up as a dual boot situation. One will be a recording pc where the I am using weaker standard video (and an adapter for dual video) and the 256 card is disabled, and the other will be more of a mid-to-high gaming pc. I am getting dual 17 inch monitors and a better machine for about 500 dollars less than The Creation Station or one of the Rain machines. They laugh at those 2 companies and spent hours telling me all the ways that they have it wrong.

I am sure there are companies like this in your area. Look one up. Find someone you trust. These guys came highly recommended by someone I trust(someone who has a gazillion degrees in all things SOUND), and just from thier history you can tell they do not play games when it comes to audio performance. They cannot afford to as companies like Deere would not put up with it.
 
Forget Alienware - they're for gamers. Forget 'audio' PCs - they're overpriced.

Best thing you can do is find a small company that'll put together a computer to your spec. I got my main unit built by a small online company - all using decent branded components. I sourced the graphics card from another company, and the monitors from another, and a silencing kit from another. All in all it cost me around £1000, whereas if I'd gone down the 'audio' PC route, I would've paid double.
 
Definatley build your own. Not only will you save lots of precious mulah, but you'll gain some good knowledge in the process. Makes you respect those little turd computer techs......lol. ;)
 
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