Alienware, one of the leading makers of Gamer specific PC's, with some of the funkiest looking boxes you'll see on the market, backed up with some seriously powerful specs have finally come to Australia.

For those of you that have been living under a rock, Alienware have been quite active in the support of the large US game events, and one of the few companies that focus their products squarely at the gamer. I just wonder who will be the skank that turns up at a LAN with one of those bad boys under their arms!

Head on over to the Alienware Australian site for a look at the funky pc's!

Nice to know your up to date with the lastest news.

Geez they need to get a new server it takes like a minute to load any of the pages :S

Maybe its just being crap now who knows.

mmm overpriced computers in ugly cases! Awesome!

ps. OFN

term, the aging process slowing you down eh?

mmm that cyborg green colour is noice, they are missing canary yellow i reckon thatd be awesome :)

Poor Term =)

posted on 11th Jan 05

obviously neither do these guys, or they'd be aware of the rigourously enforced "don't say old" policy

I dont go on the qgl forums much

Incase a lan gets organised? :p

I use an Antec Sonata case. I think that's pretty tasteful.

you can get the Alienware cases from the disk shop...seen them at the mansfield one think they were $60

i use an Antec SOHO file server case personally but i remember someone here wanting to buy the case alone

last edited by Irhabi at 20:23:23 09/Feb/05

since they're comming to aus, get them to sponsor the next qgl so you can afford a pimpin new venue! :)

the disc shop one isn't far off, and it even has yellow for rubba_chikin

last edited by character at 23:16:20 09/Feb/05

Well I don't know where my post went, but here it is again:

you can get the Alienware cases from the disk shop

Alienware has never and probably will never sell their cases seperate.

http://help.alienware.com/cgi-bin/alienware.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=59

Aww the cool looking cases are $125 :(

If they were only $60 I'd be very tempted :)

So discshop is selling cheap clones of their cases?

By the looks of things yes, from the pic I couldnt see any difference, and by alienware's disclaimer its highly illegal to copy their logo and design so I dunno.

Probably cause the clones are made in some dodgy place in asia and shipped here and attempting to sue them from the US is basically impossible.

They could still sue the Australian sellers/distributors.

Wonder how good those replica cases are?

They could still sue the Australian sellers/distributors

That would be as easy as trying to sue the dodgy manufacturers, suing internationally is a f***ing massive pain in the ass jurisdictionwise AFAIK. I have done a uni IT law subject so I do know a very limited bit about proceedings, any law buff feel free to correct me :)

in any case, if you want one of those cases, snap them up from the disc shop while you can just in case ;)

http://www.mossyblog.com/archives/398.cfm

Read that.. This consumer is going overboard.. He can't even wait one extra day for a laptop. and he starts ringing em and hassling them... What a toss.

Man I have to wait 2 weeks for my pc and I aint complaining...

I'm sure if you put an alien ware system next to an identical generic system but bought from say Umart or something, the umart PC would be considerably cheaper... ???

I'm gunna buy this!

OS - Extreme - Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Tower - Alienware Full-Tower Case - Space Black
Cable Mang - Alienware Cable Management System
Power Supply - Alienware® 480 Watt Power Supply
CPU - Intel Extreme - Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor w/ HT Technology Extreme Edition 3.4GHz 2MB Cache
Motherboard - Intel - Intel D925XCV PCI - Express
RAM - Intel Extreme - Corsair 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 2 x 1024MB
Video Card - Intel Extreme - ATi Radeon™ RX800XT 256MB DDR3, 256-bit, DVI, VGA and Video In/Out Interfaces (S-Video/Composite), PCI-Express
Video Cooling - On - AlienIce™ Video Cooling System - Astral Blue
HDD - Intel Extreme - Extreme Performance - Serial ATA RAID 0 - 320GB (160GB x 2) Hitachi Deskstar 7,200RPM w/16MB Cache
HDD2 - High Performance - Serial ATA - 160GB Seagate® Barracuda 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical One - Sony® 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Recorder
Optical Two - Sony® 52x32x52x CD-RW Drive
Floppy - 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black
Sound - Audigy 2ZS - Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE® 1394)
Modem - None
Network Connection - Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet
Display One - Alienware® 20.1" LCD Display - may delay your order
Display Two - None
Keyboard - Microsoft® Multimedia Keyboard - Space Black
Mouse - Microsoft® IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 - USB - Space Black
Speakers - Creative GigaWorks™ THX® S750 - 7.1 700-Watt Speakers
Head phones - "ZALMAN" 6-channel Real Surround Sound Headphones, separate front, rear, and center channel speakers + microphone
Security Software - None
Video Optimiser - on - AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer
Blank Media - None
Printers - None
Warranty - 1-Year AlienCare Warranty Return To Base + Toll-Free Phone Support
Productivity Software - None
Free Alienware T-Shirt - Free Alienware® T-Shirt - Black (a $19.99 value)
Free Alienware Mousepad - Free Alienware® Mousepad (a $14.99 value)
Desktop Enhancements - Exclusive AlienGUIse Theme Manager
AlienInspection - AlienInspection - Exclusive Integration and Inspection - $99.99 Value - FREE!
AlienWiring - AlienWiring - Exclusive Internal Wire Management - $99.99 Value - FREE!

Only.. wait for it... $8,944.99 inlcuding shipping and GST! s***, I might buy 2!

last edited by Mantra at 19:00:53 04/Mar/05

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