NEW TOY!! what do you guys think of my first gaming pc?

Alienware stuff has gone downhill very fast after Dell bought them out. It might look nice on the outside, but I wonder how long it'll be before something starts going wrong.

My friend bought an Alienware about a year ago. It started to bluescreen about 2 weeks later. Sent it back to them, they replaced the motherboard. When it came back, the USB ports weren't working properly. So, sent it back, they fixed it. A couple months later, it started shutting off unexpectedly. They said it's the GPU and that it'd cost £260 to replace.

I ended up helping him build a Desktop PC for around £750. Still runs fine 6 months later.

 

Can't argue with that, though my preferred controller is the Genesis pad (at least on the 2600, I don't have a C64.

 

Like an Apple product.

 

Except not. Macs tend to be pretty reliable, actually. My previous Macbook lasted for 5 years, and it was still working when I sold it. I've had my current Macbook Pro for about a year and a half or so, and I've had no problems so far.

 

That's all interesting but, I had nothing but pains with iPhones. Can't stand the restricting OS Mac users have to deal with.

 

Really? Exactly what do you find restricting about it?

 

Very nitpicky things I just hate.

Clicking the desktop to then get the finder menu. Having to hold down a key for sub menu on an object. Etc.
Everything that runs on Windows, that runs on Mac seems half assed to me.

 

Clicking the desktop to get to the Finder? I'm not sure where you got that idea. The Finder is in the dock. All you have to do is move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and click on the Finder icon. All newer Macs have a secondary click which works pretty much the same as it does in Windows, and you can also use a standard USB mouse. I'm not even going to comment on your last point, because you don't want to hear what I have to say about that.

Anyway, I think we should leave it at that and stop distracting from the main purpose of the thread.

 

That's why it is bad to cram relatively powerful CPU and GPU inside laptop. They just desolder from MB because of heat.

 

All macs since lik 2004 support right clicking.

OSX is far less restrictive than Windows for a lot of things.

 

It has been years since I've used a Mac, but I want it to stay that way... It's a matter of opinion.

 

You have to use mouse to open Finder?

 

It okay I guess. Nothing spectacular. The specs that what it counts.

 

Well, if you really want to, you could open it with the keyboard by opening Spotlight (command+space) and then search for Finder (or just the letter "F") and press enter. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, though.

 

Usually an OS has hotkeys for that. Win+E for explorer, Win+F to find something.

 

My iMac Mid 2007's Panasonic DVD drive broke in the first month. No problems otherwise. The Mid 2011 13 inch Macbook was the worst though. Very bad bearings on the fan after a 2 foot fall, DVD drive similar to Xbox 360 drives (Tilt it it screws up the disc), and a dead HM65 PCH. Ridiculous... Other than that, my experience with macs was ok. I just use my iMac to identify flash drive chip manufacturers.

 

Pretty much ALL macs that can run MacOS 7.6.x and higher can do right click with 2 button mouse with a small extension. Including 68k ones. For OS X (at least 10.3.x) it's the standard feature.

Of course, it's a BSD system under that shiny (not so in the newer versions) GUI after all.
But linux beats OS X when it comes to customization and stuff like supersonic jet beats a bicycle in terms of speed.

 

Yeah well, for the sake of user friendliness there are just as many reasons why those proprietary OS's beat gnu/linux.

 

They look like ok machines, I'm getting the Alienware 17 soon

i7-4940MX processor (Overclocked)
32GB ram
256GB mSATA SSD Boot drive + 1TB HDD

Only annoying thing is only a Dvd burner (no BD-r) and not 3D (3D is pretty much dead anyway..)

Full specs http://www.dell.com/au/p/alienware-17/pd?oc=x5102ar2au&model_id=alienware-17