Good morning,

I have been absolutely blown away by the new Alienware computers I have
seen. They don't appear to run slow at all (unlike so many others I have
used). However I am a bit weary as I have not had much luck with some new
computers (both projects and purchased) lately. I built my last PC back in
December (AMD X2 Athlon 64 3800+) and it booted smoothly and ran fine for
the first week. But even after installing only minimal software (the usual
office type programs) after a few weeks it runs slower than mollasses
flowing uphill. Even now it hangs on Windows XP loading and takes about
five minutes before I can start using it. I have run defrag/scandisk/Norton
and it is still slow.

At any rate, I'm not here to gripe about my current PC, but rather I would
like to know if anyone here owns or has at the very least tried a new
Alienware system and could tell me about their experience with it. If I am
to spend upwards of $3,000.00 on a new computer I would expect it to work
flawlessly 24 hours a day (and not become "obsolete" for at least five
years) but the way things are going these days I don't know.

Thanks anyone for your time and response

Ernie

Ernie Werbel wrote:
http://www.epinions.com/Alienware_PC...tores_Services

Paul

"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message news:evvvfa$mjj$1@aioe.org...

Thanks for the link, Paul. After reading some of these I think I will hold
off for a while longer!

Ernie

Ernie Werbel wrote:
XP - use Win2K instead or better yet Win98SE; 2) Norton AV is a pig
running on that pig and is a POS - use AVG instead; 3) you undoubtedly
have the "call home" feature turned on - turn off and disable *all*
so-called automatic updates (you may have up to 6 of these programs
running "in the background). Do that manually for anti spyware and AV
software only; leave the OS alone as at least half of the "updates" from
M$ are worse than not having any at all.

In article <m5MUh.22075$PL.1983@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink. net>,
Robert Baer <robertbaer@earthlink.net> writes
Yep Win 2K was the best prog that Microsoft ever produced

Nah full of memory leak problems etc was glad to see the back of it!.

Yep agree on that!.

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Tony Sayer