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VaiFanatic
That definitely has some bells and whistles to it. Like the high res screen. But at that price, what's stopping me from just getting a retina-display MB Pro?
Some concerns I've read so far is that a lot of thinks don't look great on that high of a resolution unless they were designed for it. Is 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 the sweet spot?
Most notebook screens now come as 1366x768, 1600x900, and 1920x1080. Then you have the retina display that's even higher, some games do look weird, and i cant imagine the 650m in it pushing games fast enough to handle that resolution.
I travel for work with a Sager NP8130, its Sagers lower end laptop, but still maintains a dedicated, and upgrade-able GPU. I find that its good enough with GTX 560m GPU for gaming on the go. They are a bit heavier than most other 15.6" notebooks, but i don't find mine to be unmanageable.
With the newer NP9130, you get options for the display, cpu options that start wth a dual core i5 ivy bridge and can be configured with several different quad core CPUs, a gtx 670m gpu ( only option for this model) 8gb ram, lots of options for HDDs, can even buy an optical bay adapter and throw in a 2nd HDD, or buy it with an mSata SSD, etc...
You can also bump up to the NP9150 or 17" 9170, which has several gpu options, in addition to everything the 9130 has for options.
Check them out at
XoticPC.com Scroll to the bottom and check out the np9130, np9150, and np9170.
Also wanted to add, Alienwares prices on their website are high, but if you do a bit of homework, you can find some discounts, and configurations that are on sale too. Plus if you call them up with a specific config, have some of those promo codes, or options ready too, then haggle a bit, people have been successful in getting 25-30% off the price of the notebook.