Any good gaming laptops like Alienware?

[sesselpupser]

A guy at work has an MSI gaming laptop, it has a 980M (I believe) and, for some reason, three M.2 SATA SSDs in Raid 0... I have no idea what it cost him - I suspect he may have had an extra arm and leg going spare - but it seems pretty nice. He brought it in to show me Star Citizen, which as far as I know is kind of hard to run even on a desktop, and managed to get it going at about 20fps.

Of course now that you can get proper actual desktop GPUs in laptops he's kicking himself, but that's progress for you.

 

[Tornado]

To go from a 970 to a 980 on mine would have added $800 to my MSI. Didn't think it was worth it.

 

[Moglet]

Oh, good, you didn't get an Alienware at least. Generally, they seem to be trash products and I've never met someone happy with their Alienware purchase after the span of a year.

Try 6 months. Ours required a re-install of the OS after 6 months, then a new HDD (we replaced it with an SSD) after 2 years. It constantly has issues with connecting to wi-fi, sometimes refuses to boot and drains the battery within 10 minutes when asleep and not plugged in. Never again. Luckily we got it at a massively reduced price in the first place.

 

[BobK]

Try 6 months. Ours required a re-install of the OS after 6 months, then a new HDD (we replaced it with an SSD) after 2 years. It constantly has issues with connecting to wi-fi, sometimes refuses to boot and drains the battery within 10 minutes when asleep and not plugged in. Never again. Luckily we got it at a massively reduced price in the first place.

...and now you know why the price was so massively reduced.

 

[Moglet]

...and now you know why the price was so massively reduced.

I feel sorry for the people who paid full price for the same model though!

 

[Rallywagon]

Makes me sad a bit. I remember when Alienware was the end all be all. Then Dell happened... Now Dell just took over EMC, and I am wondering how much longer our storage systems are going to be running! Not looking forward to the day we have to try and recover 50PB of data...