Photorun
macrumors 65816
Alienware IS a toy
And oooh, that alloy saucer silver chassis part, no no THAT'S not a toy, gimme a break.
You know what kind of company alienware is when you go to their website and there's some geek's idea of a wetdream anime chick with vulcan ears... and that's on their first page! Basically it's a site selling computers to loser gamer geeks who've never seriously kissed a girl, live with their parents, and choke the bishop to, well, lame cheesy unrealistic bad cartoons of chicks with pointy ears that's currently on alienware.
Now professionals that choose the best tools for the job, who make decent money and live on their own or students (or anyone) with discerning taste clearly should be buying Macs and, if they had to, a Dull or Sony ViooOOHHHImnotamac. I'd tip my hat to alienware for style and substance but it's neither. If I walked into a meeting with one of those I'd never be taken seriously and the only attention I'd get would be from 1. loser geeks and 2. okay... that's all the attention I'd get. I had a crowd around me after buying my first TiBook at a little cafe. Owners of peecee laptops gathering around asking what was it, what version of Windows did it run (I laughed at that one), and compliments galore. I think recently Sony did a commercial like that with their VioOOhhImstillnotamac and laughed. I have acquaintances with VioOOOhhnopedefinitelyjusta****tylaptopbySony and I can tell you NOBODY walks up to them when they pop it out of the saddlebags. I still get people asking about mine even while sitting next to friends with the VioOO(you get the picture). PC, ugly, nobody cares, Mac = art = buzz AND style AND substance.
Usually... until now when the processor is getting long in the tooth. I appreciate the naive optimism in this forums but facing facts, we're stuck with the G4 PB a lot longer, at least though this year. Bummer to be sure, but reality is reality, I wish I knew different.
One thing though re: the kiddieware, er, alienware laptop, I actually DO like that being able to swap out videocards from the laptop, this makes total sense as this is probably the one item that gets dated the fastest. I wish Apple would do this but am not holding my breath, Apple, great products always but always one dumb thing or two, lack of video card upgrading has been one of them.
Also, re: kiddiealienware, the prices on those (which was why I went to their site because the poster "conveniently" left the price off, ugly bad cartoons of fake looking supposed alien babes does nothing for me) aren't that great. I admit Apple's mark ups kinda are ridiculous but alienware's uglyass area 51 top of the line laptop costs almost $3700, which is more than the 17 inch Powerbook. Some expensive "toy!" But hey, the kiddieware area 51 comes with, oooh gee whiz... a remote! (???? WTF?)
Puuuhhllease.
And oooh, that alloy saucer silver chassis part, no no THAT'S not a toy, gimme a break.
You know what kind of company alienware is when you go to their website and there's some geek's idea of a wetdream anime chick with vulcan ears... and that's on their first page! Basically it's a site selling computers to loser gamer geeks who've never seriously kissed a girl, live with their parents, and choke the bishop to, well, lame cheesy unrealistic bad cartoons of chicks with pointy ears that's currently on alienware.
Now professionals that choose the best tools for the job, who make decent money and live on their own or students (or anyone) with discerning taste clearly should be buying Macs and, if they had to, a Dull or Sony ViooOOHHHImnotamac. I'd tip my hat to alienware for style and substance but it's neither. If I walked into a meeting with one of those I'd never be taken seriously and the only attention I'd get would be from 1. loser geeks and 2. okay... that's all the attention I'd get. I had a crowd around me after buying my first TiBook at a little cafe. Owners of peecee laptops gathering around asking what was it, what version of Windows did it run (I laughed at that one), and compliments galore. I think recently Sony did a commercial like that with their VioOOhhImstillnotamac and laughed. I have acquaintances with VioOOOhhnopedefinitelyjusta****tylaptopbySony and I can tell you NOBODY walks up to them when they pop it out of the saddlebags. I still get people asking about mine even while sitting next to friends with the VioOO(you get the picture). PC, ugly, nobody cares, Mac = art = buzz AND style AND substance.
Usually... until now when the processor is getting long in the tooth. I appreciate the naive optimism in this forums but facing facts, we're stuck with the G4 PB a lot longer, at least though this year. Bummer to be sure, but reality is reality, I wish I knew different.
One thing though re: the kiddieware, er, alienware laptop, I actually DO like that being able to swap out videocards from the laptop, this makes total sense as this is probably the one item that gets dated the fastest. I wish Apple would do this but am not holding my breath, Apple, great products always but always one dumb thing or two, lack of video card upgrading has been one of them.
Also, re: kiddiealienware, the prices on those (which was why I went to their site because the poster "conveniently" left the price off, ugly bad cartoons of fake looking supposed alien babes does nothing for me) aren't that great. I admit Apple's mark ups kinda are ridiculous but alienware's uglyass area 51 top of the line laptop costs almost $3700, which is more than the 17 inch Powerbook. Some expensive "toy!" But hey, the kiddieware area 51 comes with, oooh gee whiz... a remote! (???? WTF?)
Puuuhhllease.
