Alienware

**The_Doctor** · 07-26-2006, 09:56

Which supplier are you working with? Do they build custom laptops? Do you have a website?

I found all this stuff on www.aria.co.uk

Also Doctor were are you located? If it's any were up north Manchester or near enough I could tell you a few places were you coudl get a rig for about £ 300 cheaper than that.

Liverpool.

EDIT: Wrong web address.

**Cebei** · 07-26-2006, 15:34

Originally Posted by tibilicus

Cebei if your thinkign of buyign a laptop over a desktop don't do it. Trust me jsut dont. :p

Yes, I was thinking about that. Actually I can't notice a significant price difference between laptops and desktops over high-end systems; they cost more or less the same.

Also, I will have to sell my desktop when my PhD is over, which leads me to the laptop solution, but if I can find a cheaper customs desktop builder in the UK, I will definitely pick that one.

I found all this stuff on www.aria.com

The prices look ok. Thanks Doc

**The_Doctor** · 07-26-2006, 16:05

That should be www.aria.co.uk

**Cebei** · 07-26-2006, 17:25

Originally Posted by The_Doctor

That should be www.aria.co.uk

Yeah I added co.uk in the end. I am considering buying a desktop around November. I hope they'll pull down the prices by then.

**tibilicus** · 07-26-2006, 18:42

Doctor have a look up for a palce called bowlers computer fair it's located in manchester. I got my pc from there which im delighted with. Don't worry it's nothign dodgy like a mix and match cheap parts garage sale it's a well organized group of stores both who have perminent stores and soem who coem and go from tiem to time. There you could probably get the system you asked for under the 1K mark. The stores also normaly offer atleast some form of warranty I got a one eyar one with my pc but others offer 3 years or even mroe if your willing to play extra. You can basicly mic and match on aprts say buy a rig from one store then the monitor cheaper from another or buy a barebone system and buy your chosen graphicis card and so on. Also ask aroudn to fidn whos sellign the software you need windows Xp ect. It's very cheap for software aswell but personly I wouldn't buy any software other than windows Xp from there. Rembember one of the more memorable stalls selling a disk entitled "hackign stuff". :P