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    Price of m17x actually a lot better than i thought

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by laststop311, Jun 3, 2009.

  1. laststop311

    laststop311 Notebook Deity

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    A sager 5797 from sagerbotebook.com with 1920 x 1200, t9800, 1 gtx 280m, Vista Home premium 64, 4 GB 1066 ram, 500GB 7200RPM drive
    Price of Sager: 2414
    Let me note that it only accepts 1 hard drive and 1 graphics card which limits upgrade potential

    Now an alienware m17x from alienware.com includes 1920 x 1200, t9800, 1gtx 260m, Vista Home premium 64, 4gb 1066 ram, 500GB 7200 RPM drive
    Price of m17x: 2474

    So the AW costs 60 more and has the 260m instead of the 280m. BUT it has huge potential for upgrading later on. Personally I'd rather have that AW config pay the 60 more and the slightly lower graphics card and later upgrade to dual gpu and quad core cpu and dual raid 0 ssd's later on when I have more money and when I need more power and when SSD prices crashes more. Not to mention all the cool looks of the m17x the lights the binary GFX the stealth mode the facial recognition. This m17x is priced way better than my expectations and I think it's gonna sell like crazy. AW/Dell has a winner right here thats gonna sell huge numbers.
     
    laststop311, Jun 3, 2009
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  2. IKAS V

    IKAS V Notebook Prophet

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    Yes it is considering some past AW laptops fully configured cost around $5000, even with a Quad CPU's and 280M in SLI the new m17x seems to be a good deal compared to other SLI laptops, or at the very least very competitively priced.
     
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  3. JWest

    JWest Master of Notebookery

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    I know, this is why I may be getting it ;)
     
    JWest, Jun 3, 2009
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