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Alienware Area-51 m15x Review

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  1. Tarso •  May 12, 2008
    Rating: 1/5

    It all sounded great but I bought this machine with the exact same configuration and honestly I deeply regret it! I paid over $4000 for a machine that is giving me blue screen errors every single days. I have spent over 10 hours with their tech support, and they still can’t figure this out!! From BIOS upgrade to memory test to a bed video card. They just can’t find out! Today I called custumer service to get my money back and they still want to charge me a restocking fee!! I just can’t believe the amount of trouble I had to go through for $4000!

    Rating: 2 :: 2 out of 2 people found this user review helpful.

  2. jaredb909 •  January 28, 2009
    Rating: 1/5

    I agree with Tarso i just got my m15x and ive only had it 4 days and it has blue screened me at least 7 times already. I am contacting alienware about it to see if there is a fix yet, if not i will be returning my system for a different model.

    Rating: 2 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Ryan •  February 23, 2009
    Rating: 4/5

    I hope you two aren’t using Norton anti-virus with Vista… it is not compatable and will shut your system down, I only know this because for some reason HP shipped a friends laptop with Vista and Norton on it… it worked for about 3 days… then it just started to slow down and stopped booting and then… blue screen, it was quite difficult to get it off of there too, and I had no idea what the problem was… but eventually a CS guy finally got on and asked me if I was using norton… anyways if you get a vista machine and you are a norton user, do not install it on your new OS

    Rating: 8 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  4. Craig •  March 2, 2010
    Rating: 0/5

    I have had this model for about 9 to 10 months now and I love it.

    I ordered it with 2gigs Ram and upgraded to 8 as soon as I got it.

    These machines require quite a bit of Ram, this could be the problem many

    people are having. The applications I am currently using include, Maya 3D software, and all Adobe products. For a laptop it works well even with

    memory intensive software. No problems other than things that I did to cause any discomfort with this model.

    Rating: 0 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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