Are Alienwares worth it? Better alternative?
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Look at it this way, a desktop always has room for expansion - i.e. better graphics card, more ram, more hard drives, better cpu etc.
With laptops - the most you can do is expanded the ram and hard drive... But even the hard drive part is difficult to do.
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Re: Are Alienwares worth it? Better alternative?Hard drive? Hard drives easy, just unscrew the side it's on and it slots out, though some laptops have no expansion for an extra Hard drive so you got to replace the entire thing :/(Original post by djshine88)
Look at it this way, a desktop always has room for expansion - i.e. better graphics card, more ram, more hard drives, better cpu etc.
With laptops - the most you can do is expanded the ram and hard drive... But even the hard drive part is difficult to do.
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That's what i sort of mean. More so, if you want to put an ssd in, you will have clone the entire thing, and then sort out a load of permissions etc.(Original post by Iqbal007)
Hard drive? Hard drives easy, just unscrew the side it's on and it slots out, though some laptops have no expansion for an extra Hard drive so you got to replace the entire thing :/
For a second hdd, u have to sacrifice a disk drive - like i did. WELL WORTH IT
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Re: Are Alienwares worth it? Better alternative?I would have gone for an SSD, especially if your laptop is struggling, as I hear it increases performance quite a lot.(Original post by djshine88)
That's what i sort of mean. More so, if you want to put an ssd in, you will have clone the entire thing, and then sort out a load of permissions etc.
For a second hdd, u have to sacrifice a disk drive - like i did. WELL WORTH IT
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Well put it this way, before i had one my macbook boots in 1 minute 3 seconds.(Original post by Iqbal007)
I would have gone for an SSD, especially if your laptop is struggling, as I hear it increases performance quite a lot.
With the SSD, it boots in 20.3 seconds... Less if you don't count the POST
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