Your thoughts on Alienware.

[PopsicleHustler]

Hi

 

Recently I've been looking into some Alienware products, particularly monitors, and they seem very good. Priced fair, and quality seems very good.

In EU Alienware isn't very popular, probably be they have same reputation of Razer, selling overpriced hardware. So I would like to hear opinion of others, maybe even some first hand users.

[Jurrunio]

I don't get why they get bad rep really. Sure they are expensive, but also built like tanks unlike Razer. In fact they are much closer to Aorus branded laptops, high quality product at a high price.

[Fuzzleworth1]

3 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Hi

 

Recently I've been looking into some Alienware products, particularly monitors, and they seem very good. Priced fair, and quality seems very good.

In EU Alienware isn't very popular, probably be they have same reputation of Razer, selling overpriced hardware. So I would like to hear opinion of others, maybe even some first hand users.

By far there laptops and desktops are overpriced, but their monitors, keyboards, and mice are pretty fair

[bleedblue]

Pricey, but pretty solid build quality compared to other gaming brands like Razer.

[Purgent]

Expensive; only buy if you like to game and are too lazy / don't care to research how to build your own

[TheDankKoosh]

19 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Hi

 

Recently I've been looking into some Alienware products, particularly monitors, and they seem very good. Priced fair, and quality seems very good.

In EU Alienware isn't very popular, probably be they have same reputation of Razer, selling overpriced hardware. So I would like to hear opinion of others, maybe even some first hand users.

Their laptops are decent, but most other stuff is overpriced crap, cheaply made and marked up

 

 

[Canada EH]

28 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

cheaply made

Yup like most consumer grade products, the corporations are relying on brand identification and brand building.

[LukeSavenije]

1 hour ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Hi

 

Recently I've been looking into some Alienware products, particularly monitors, and they seem very good. Priced fair, and quality seems very good.

In EU Alienware isn't very popular, probably be they have same reputation of Razer, selling overpriced hardware. So I would like to hear opinion of others, maybe even some first hand users.

like an expensive version off Dell. O wait, it is

[RasmusDC]

i got a good company discount on Dell, so bought one of the new R17 laptops, i´m not sure if i agree.

 

it´s a bulky laptop but without really good cooling, mine was assembled wrong, one speaker was not in its mount, so sounded awefull, dell asked me if i could fix it myself, with no impact on warranty if it failed, i did, had to pull out large parts of the laptop, and afterwards it was more like, well had it failed, then i would have been to pay to get a BRAND new laptop fixed... so made me not trust DELL.

 

however, after playing with throttlestop, i have a silent laptop runinng on desktop and small games, and a decent laptop playing games. 

 

i know it is a 1070OC and the 6 core I7 but still.

 

And the TN panel, i also feel it is a bit too cheap but happy with the 120hz, instead of the 60hz version, and the 1440p resolution.

 

IT does feel build like a tank, and nice not to have "warranty stickers" you have to remove to do simple upgrades. 

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

I don't get why they get bad rep really. Sure they are expensive, but also built like tanks unlike Razer. In fact they are much closer to Aorus branded laptops, high quality product at a high price.

Because they are not built like tanks, they have plenty of problems if you look on the internet.

Also they are overpriced because just like razer, 90% of the budget is spent on marketing and ugly RGB to target children with rich parents.

[Lathlaer]

I can easily recommend their ultrawide monitors. Until the new HDR Quantum Dot 200Hz panels from Asus and Acer appear, the AW3418DW holds the crown as the best ultrawide IPS G-Sync monitor on the market. Kind of caught Asus and Acer with their pants down because at the time of premiere they were offering 75Hz/100Hz (oc) panels with 3800R curve and here comes Alienware, not really that known for being in the monitor business and releases a 100Hz/120Hz monitor with 1900R curve.

 

Acer decided to match it with their refreshed Predator X34p but I think Asus gave up and decided to wait for the HDR.

 

Anyway, the r/ultrawidemasterrace was extatic

[PopsicleHustler]

Thank you all for responding. I will be picking AW3418HW as Christmas present for my brother. I saw one in my local PC store, 1080p on 34inch ultrawide doesn't look bad, in fact when you're playing games and sitting 3-4ft away, I could not see individual pixels, and that is coming from someone who is gaming on X34.

   I was a little worried about getting monitor from Alienware since I never used their products, but from your responses and other reviews, it seems like a solid choice.

 

Case Closed.