Coming back soon!

[blast3r]

I moved to center city Philadelphia this month and am getting settled in, I reactivated 5 of my accounts and then found my computer was running like crap and kept crashing so I decided to just buy a new computer.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/deskt...rea-51_anav1~~



I can't wait to get the new system!!!!

[moosejaw]

I'll bet you can't wait.
I suppose those Area 51 setups are worth every copper.

[Sajuuk]

You're getting raped price-wise.

I just built the same computer minimum specs (their starting price) for 500 less than their price.

[jinkobi]

What rapes you is if you do their payment plans... Depends if you used their credit or not of course! Made that mistake myself because I'd had lots of medical bills and my old PC was fried. Didn't want to sit here sick & PC less and did the dirty deed of buying an Alienware on their credit plan. In the end if I'd payed just the minimum payments was something on the order of 16 years and 6,000$... Had to pay it off of course- but won't fall into that trap again.

I'd built my own too at the time but just had to lay out 20,000$ for surgery etc...no medical insurance So was unable to get the parts.

One thing to note- BOTH video cards on my Alienware 2X8800GT's in a SLI went out within a year.

[blast3r]

Crap, got a message from Dell I didn't have enough on my credit card to buy this. *pout*

[Maxion]

Welcome back anyway

[EaTCarbS]

You can never really quit. Its always just on 'pause' =P

[Hivetyrant]

Excellent machine, the case design is worth the cost in my opinion, so ignore the inevitable people saying "I can build a better one for half the price" they don't understand where the cost goes.

Plus support wise you are way ahead of the pack (so if for some reason you do have an issue, just make sure you do your support calls through the web page)

I'm now running a few Aurora ALX's and Area 51's (Don't ask) and I LOVE them.

Anyways, welcome back!

[moosejaw]

Those Area 51 machines really eliminate the engineering errors for the cooling and case design. It would really take me lots of research and several attempts to produce a case/cooling arrangement as functional as that. I think the premium is in line for such a quiet/efficient machine.

[Tonuss]

I buy a PC when I want to avoid any of the cost and hassle of building my own. But most of the time, I build it myself because I enjoy doing it. I don't know what the price premium is, and I don't trust OEM tech support as far as I can throw it. That said, there are a lot of boutique builders out there who provide so many options that I would find it hard to beat their prices by building it myself.