New Computer?
I think I'm taking my current home PC to its limits and I'm starting to itch for a new machine. I have had this one for about 3 years +/- and it has been a good machine. It is a desktop/tower computer though and I think my next one is going to be a laptop. But...The coolest laptop I have seen out there is from Alienware. These machines are set up for gaming and have tons of gadgets and options. They have all of the power of a box packed into the compact frame of a laptop. They even have dual CD/DVD drive bays! The sound and graphics cards simply rock and they have great options for building them just the way you want them. What's the problem then? They don't have a docking station or a port replicator! I was surprised to read the ads for keyboards, monitors, speakers, mice, and other peripheral devices and then learn that they would all have to be connected individually to the computer itself. What a pain!
I currently use a laptop for work and, though it isn't exactly a powerhouse PC, I do have port replicators with a standard setup in the two different offices I work in. This makes life very easy because all I have to do is plop the laptop in the docking station and I have a full size keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor, external drives and printers automatically connected. No fuss, no muss. Plug and play, baby! You would think the folks at Alienware would get a clue on this. Why would you have a laptop, ideally a portable computer, that isn't designed for the ease of use with portable peripherals?
So, I start my search again, looking for a good powerhouse PC, dockable, for a decent price. Dell has some decent PCs but nothing that comes close to Alienware. Gateway? Yeah, right! Anyone have any ideas?
posted by Bonzai @ 7:56 PM
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I have yet to have any luck with Gateway, I loathe them.
Dell makes a few high end Pentium-M types of notebooks I have always had preference to. The XPS Gen2 has always been a little pet I have wanted to buy. And they are quite commonly used with port replicators, i agree is a big bonus. These even have a few special nvidia quattro cards meant to be fast, and portable...
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