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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron $800 vs Alienware X14 $1800
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:10:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:03 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:00:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote at 17:05 this Saturday (GMT):
>>> On 2/20/2025 1:21 PM, Tahitian pearl wrote:
>>>> Not much improvement here because the X14 appears to be an entry level 
>>>> offering.  I didn't realize this when I bought it because I was fooled 
>>>> by the Alienware brand.  The Inspiron has 12 GB of RAM.  My bet is that 
>>>> if they put real fans in it, then it would blow the X14 away.
>>>> 
>>>> Plan on overspending if you want Alienware.  The clerk tried to get me 
>>>> to buy a $3400 version of the Alienware, and if I knew they were going 
>>>> to give me a line of $3000 credit like they did I would have taken him 
>>>> up on the offer.  I felt pretty let down by the X14, but fortunately it 
>>>> took a bullet for me.
>>>
>>> I never buy brand name computers.  They're either absolute junk in 
>>> proprietary cases you can't put upgrades in or cost almost 2x as much as 
>>> they should, or both.  Either build your own or part and buy from a 
>>> custom maker.
>>
>>
>>Yeah, if a computer brand spends so much on marketing, there's probably
>>something up with the product
>>
>>this goes for all computer companies APPLE
>
> Apple long ago gave up on being a computer company. Their a luxury
> brand. 
>
> And not totally undeserved. A lot of the engineering in Apple products
> is impressive. But it's too often focused on form, not function, and
> even for what you get, the price is rarely worth it.
>
>     [But I'm a grump about Apple in general. It's not that I don't 
>      like their hardware, but I spent years in the trenches supporting
>      the platform and I consistently heard about Apple's superiority
>      over its competitors even as I banged my head against their bad 
>      decisions. At least PCs were honest in their awfulness ;-)]

Same, I have to use an iPhone against my will.

> As for Alienware... well, it's not the same company it once was. It
> grew to popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s as an expensive
> provider of high-end boutique gaming PCs. Its computers had a unique
> look that made them stand out from the crowd, and they offered a
> product that was top-of-the-line in performance. (It wasn't that you
> couldn't build your own PC that was faster or less expensive, but
> Alienware PCs were a pretty good turnkey purchases, if you could
> afford them). But that started changing in the late 2000s, after Dell
> bought the company, and now... well, they're just Dells with slightly
> better spec'd hardware and a price that is more about the name than
> the quality.


Good to know, I never really trusted them.
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