M18x R2 warranty price

Hello fellow Alienware owners

I've asked Dell for extending my warranty on the M18x R2 (The one in my signature), and after almost 2 months i've finally heard back from them.
I'd like to know if the prices seem fair to you:
- 1 more year (end date 1. dec. 2017) 256€
- 2 more years (end date 5. nov. 2018) 492€
(both basic warranty)

Consider that the warranty doesnt cover:
- CPU (installed later)
- SSD and HDDs (mfg warranty 4.5 years left)
- RAM (mfg lifetime warranty)
and i'm still waiting for them to confirm that the warranty will cover GPU's (wich were a replacement for 7970M's by Dell US)

Side question, any AW rep still active on the forum that could help me out with this last part?

 

Know this: Dell has no parts to service the M18x R2, and will replace it with a Alienware 17 R3 or an Alienware 18 (if available in your region)

Not worth it imo.

 

Really? not even the motherboards or GPUs?

Well if that's the case i'll opt out of the warranty, i dont want that crippled ****...

Guess i'll stock up parts (mobo + gpu) for if the need be i can swap it out

I especially don't like new laptops coz they only support Win 8 and up -.-

This M18x is staying for a long time.

 

If they replace your machine to AW18 you will be dissapointed. Locked BIOS, cpu power limits, 100W power limit and so on. Not even mentioning puke-making design.

 

I think you should get warranty. I'm sure they will come out with new design on their next revision , along with the new hardware. Only time will tell.

 

Yeah, it's ugly AF not to mention everything is soldered.

It doesn't matter if the design is better if intel won't stop with the BGA nonsense and Dell continues to solder the GPUs, + a lot of newer PC's that i've had pleasure of dealing with didn't have compatibile ACPI for Windows 7, wtf is this BS?

I want the option to choose the OS not just be stuck with Win 8/10 BS or Linux...

 

Yes it is definitely not as good looking or functional as the M18x R2, but it is not soldered. It has removable CPU/GPU

 

Alienware 18? i've heard everything is soldered... ouch maybe it was AW 17 xD

Still, don't want to have it replaced.

 

Nope, Alienware 17 and 18 have sockets and slots, but they have a BIOS crippled by Secure Flash that cannot be unlocked like the models before them.

The 17R2, 15, 13 and newer Alienwares are the ones with soldered BGA crap.

 

I know Dell technicians that are still doing warranty services on M18xR1, R2 and M17xR4's - No shortage of parts here (AU)
One of my friends who's a Dell tech just changed out 2 x AMD6990's and a M18xR1 motherboard for a customer - All from Dell and all under warranty.

 

Well they told me they have parts here aswell .. so extension it is

 

Wow. Think you can swap out my dead pixel LCD? Dell ran out of parts 2 years ago

 

Hahaha, fistly i don't think they exchange LCD because of one dead pixel xD... it has to be 5 or more afaik...
And secondly i'm in EU and you are in the US, the shipping costs alone would not be worth it imo