kinkinkijkin Wrote:I've found that alienware computers can cost anywhere from $100 too much to $700 too much for what they are. Really, that's worse than apple, and apple at least puts together a decent product.
Not even close to apple levels of price inflation.
Back in high school I once did a business project/powerpoint presentation where in one of my slides I compared the cost overhead of different PC manufacturers. I did this by customizing builds with identical specs from each company at various price points, comparing their price against the total parts value, and averaging them together. HP was 25%, dell was 40%, alienware was 60%, apple was 110%.
Note Alienware had not yet been bought by Dell at this point. Their prices have actually gone down comparatively since then.
A lot of my friends at the time had apple computers so I really enjoyed that project
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@Everyone
I haven't seen a system throttle at a temperature as low as 70C is a long time (pentium 4 era). The OP needs to check his clock rates to verify that it is indeed throttling.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:3D modeling is handled by the GPU.
Depends on the program and what exactly you're doing. A lot of stuff is still done on the cpu. And it tends to stress the cpu a lot even for things that rely heavily on the gpu as well.
wrong, Wrong, WRONG answers ... I bet each & every one of Y.O.U. anti alienware gaming laptops apple loving hipsters love to play farmville on a puny insignificant macbook pro and just enjoy the lagging from there. Apple does not put together a decent product at all my pentium m can a play a game better than that hunk of rotten apples. first off, How dare yous leave an answer and compare gaming laptops like Alienware, MSI, Sager, Razor, Or Origin to a small careless macbook pro.
(02-06-2014, 10:21 AM)4killer1room Wrote: [ -> ]wrong, Wrong, WRONG answers ... I bet each & every one of Y.O.U. anti alienware gaming laptops apple loving hipsters love to play farmville on a puny insignificant macbook pro and just enjoy the lagging from there. Apple does not put together a decent product at all my pentium m can a play a game better than that hunk of rotten apples. first off, How dare yous leave an answer and compare gaming laptops like Alienware, MSI, Sager, Razor, Or Origin to a small careless macbook pro.
What are you going on about? Why are you insinuating that we prefer Apple over other companies and brands? And who is Y.O.U? A new pop band? An evil organization?
At any rate, you've won yourself a warning. Try to follow the rules when posting.
Perhaps he was referring to this?
NaturalViolence Wrote:A lot of my friends at the time had apple computers so I really enjoyed that project Tongue.
And not understanding that I was using the data to make fun of apple users for how overpriced their products are.
(02-06-2014, 10:21 AM)4killer1room Wrote: [ -> ]wrong, Wrong, WRONG answers ... I bet each & every one of Y.O.U. anti alienware gaming laptops apple loving hipsters love to play farmville on a puny insignificant macbook pro and just enjoy the lagging from there. Apple does not put together a decent product at all my pentium m can a play a game better than that hunk of rotten apples. first off, How dare yous leave an answer and compare gaming laptops like Alienware, MSI, Sager, Razor, Or Origin to a small careless macbook pro.
Woah there bad boy. Watch your language.
Well, in any case, My MSI GE40 which has the Intel Core i7 4702MQ Handles Dolphin @ 80-85 degrees Celsius without throttling (4 cores @ 2.9 GHz and remember, It's hell'a hot here in the Philippines!).
I don't think that notebook chips would be logical to be throttled at a ridiculously low 70-ish degrees when most mobile chips idle at 40-55 degrees Celsius. o.O