Passed through 98 to 10, using every single one. 98, ME, XP with every service pack, Vista, 7 just when it came out, 8, 8.1 and updated to 10 as soon as it was released. My first time with a PC was at 3 back in 2001. Later, I tested 95 for curiosity.
Salty Floridian I have one of the last M17xr4 with the box and 120hz 3D screens with the box and 3D glasses. It’s a great very fast notebook...a dying breed!
Stonewall Jackson I’ve owned both the M17xr4 and the MacBook Pro 15...both are nice but u have to deal w windows...but the new 2004 win 10 is good on my Alienware
Stonewall Jackson I lean now towards the Alienware but be careful which one. The newer ones don’t allow I to chg the GPU ...it’s now soldered to MB. Not good. I have an original owner M15x from the Miami Alienware factory...loaded and mint
@@saltyfloridaman7163 you can't upgrade laptop GPUs so that's complete bs I mean you can with the WiFi card slot but then it's not really a laptop is it
@@Doc_Valparaiso I know but it is what it is, once tried to buy an old laptop from a dude, he asked € 150 for a 11 year old basic little business machine; his reasoning "It still works .. mostly" suffices to say it didn't come home with me :/
reminds me of a friend who had a asus 'rog' republic of gamer laptop with red tints and stuff. with a like gtx640? ish cant remember but had a i7 but yeha was old we said we give you 200€ for it for the fun its old shit but he wanted 350 ish we said nahhh good luck. he went to our local pawn shop and sold it there for 350€ +50 credits at there store... WTF and they sold it 4 weeks later for 650€ to someone who wanted to play the sims... welcome to france.. say it has a i7 and asus rog they will buy and dont understand its old and wont game... but hey we were laughing and happy for him that he god that much for it and that the shop sold it with in 1 month was ever stranger... but its often like that people buy at he pawn shop more for double price then on facebook / local craigslist... my lg g3 nobody wanted to buy it for 130€ i went ot the pawn shop they would give me 100€... so i kept it ended up selling it local at 100€... how does the pawn shop make profit on something i couldnt sell for more then 100€ but they would take for 100€ and so resell it for atleast 150€..... but they know there clients... people like to see the item in a shop in france.... 'better quality' more expensive is better it there motto...
I remember being so amazed by this laptop, drooling over images of it and wishing if i was rich enough to afford it. It's amazing how fast technology becomes outdated, at this rate you'd be stupid to buy anything
I remember how they used to put desktop CPUs into a laptop so they crushed all competition but even just browsing the web you got under 2 hours of battery life. Gaming it was just a requirement to be plugged in. I wanted one so bad for a LAN rig but a Shuttle setup was so much more practical. I couldn't afford either so I lugged my heavy case and CRT monitor around instead.
Thats why gaming on laptops suck, even if the cpu could support both gpu's it would either overheat so much that you could cook an egg on it or come up with some other bs that would make you regret paying 4 grand for it. A 2006 machine with 4k$ price that can barely run 2007 games is stupid even for a laptop though.
@@spongeboimebob thats why i still have the hp trashtop that the estate has give to me, it only has 2.0ghz cpu and a 4gb of ram... But it runs better than that bad boy from 2006 xkdnxnd xD
@@spongeboimebob ?? What are you talking about. I have a MSI Raider for school that I also use for gaming and I get 65°C on cpu and GPU on RDR2 with mixed high and ultra settings. Downvolting and repasting does wonders, but it's already clear you don't know anything about it.
Runs great on my i3 3110M HD4000 2.16gb vram, fallout new Vegas also. Just need 8gb+ ram in dual channel and I have 16gb. Cheap 2012 Dell laptop, with $100 worth of upgrades over time. It games unplugged, the reason why I keep it although it's not my primary anymore.
This brings me back to when I stopped a friend from buying an MSI GT83 for nearly £5k. I found out later he went for a used Alienware desktop that blew up as soon as he plugged it into power.
I had one of these at my old job. I was doing corporate video and needed something mobile for live events. This was about as fast and powerful as you could get at the time that could could take on a plane.... I think the AC brick weighed more than my current laptop and it's own AC brick...
This reminds me of the time when every years' new hardware made such a huge difference. 4000 dollars for stutter after a year? No. I'm still using my 1000 dollar 3630qm 650SLI laptop after 7 years. Everything up to 2017 ran fine on 1080p low.
I had a GTX 660M laptop from 2012-2018. It did well in 1080p, especially after I overclocked it. Now i have a Asus Turbo GTX 1080. It does similarly well but in 4k (also Overclocked).
This makes me feel like benchmarking my Dell XPS M1730 (from 2007). It's been upgraded a bit over the years, and is currently sporting Core 2 Extreme x9000, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD + 1TB HD and GeForce 8800M GTX SLi. I bought it after a serious accident back in late 2007, because I couldn't sit normally at a desk for several months, and so I needed to be able to game with my legs up. It was my primary system for over two years. And was used frequently for a lot longer.
Mine was my daily driver from 2008 until 2014 or 2015 when the gpu cooked itself. Showed its age but a fantastic machine. Recently got it up and running again with a replacement part too.
@@siyzerix fun of course , same reason youtubers build pcs i crazy everyday things , and why the make sleeper pcs. take and old school alienware and either put in a new school laptop mobo and stuff , or go one better and find a way to put an actual pc in the chassis. would be an epic challenge
@@thewizardoftech5075 See, now that makes sense. When youtubers who say ''Oh just get a old thinkpad and upgrade its screen, cpu, gpu, etc. because all new budget laptops suck'' pisses me off because thats not true. But if you wanna do it for fun, sure. Its all good.
Topet Hernaez ...not really, as the RTX cards are EXTREMELY powerful and will be able to still play every SINGLE game 14 years from now with ray tracing disabled. Literally the only thing that will be lost is the ability to ray trace in a game 14 years from now on current laptop hardware, especially since RTX was made for the upcoming next gen games anyways. Meaning it will still be able to play games perfectly fine on at least medium settings 14 years from now with ray tracing disabled, just one single generation after this one coming up. Heck, they might even be able to run them with the lowest ray-tracing option enabled still. So no.
Great video. I remember when I was younger I'd go on the Alienware website and custom build something that was around $5k in cost. Knowing I could never afford that it still made me happy just building those gaming pcs on their website. Then I learned how fast PC technology goes out of style and if you wait just a year or two, that tech that was $5k would drop almost in half in that time. Good times.
Seriously theres no way I could ever dislike a video from you man. You are probably one of the most likable people on this planet. Even if someone doesn't find you exciting, I doubt anyone could actually DISLIKE you. Good video as always. love to watch your stuff.
I actually have the 4k model and it's still working to this day (and holds a charge with 89% battery total life left) with Windows 10 and in almost mint condition. This month I decided to finally sell it lol love the video!
I had this Laptop, I used to take it with me to Yu Gi Oh tournaments and challenge people to Mugen and MAME Street Fighter matches because in those days it took alot of power to run those properly. My brother bought the X1900 ATI with the Core Duo laptop and it smoked this one even with the SLI in newer games. Laptop mobo eventually shorted.
The xbox 360 was released in 2005 and ps3 in 2006, so contemporaries of this laptop. This 2000+ dollar gaming laptop likely can't play any games that look as nice as a lot of ps3 and 360 games.
I had an Alienware M9700i-r1. My old man got it for me as a college gift in 2006. It cost $2500, and had an Intel T7200 and 1GB of ram (thought i upgraded to 3GB towards the end. It had the same Dual 256mb cards, though I have seen reports of support for a specific 512x2 configuration. Fun fact, you could get the screen upgraded to 1920x1200, and the CPU up to a T7600 at 2.3Ghz. I'm sure if you maxed the fuck out of it, it would have been pretty future-proofed till at least the 2010s.
For the record, there was also an Intel edition, called the 9750. That did have a dual core option, but it had a very strange Intel drawback. While the CPU could claim a 64bit address space, the chipset was limited to a 32bit address space. As such, it resulted in a strange scenario where it was possible to upgrade to 4GB of ram on a 64Bit machine, while still dealing with the 3.5GB limits associated with a 32bit OS.
Really really love this channel... My man I hope you go even further with this channel - a million subs on the way hopefully!! Your videos are so thorough but not overly lengthy! Your scripts are so so well written! It’s also clear you know your stuff! The work you put into your videos here really shows... Keep it up
He’s back?!? Wooo! I haven’t seen his videos in like a year (or whenever his Xbox was smoking a sig), I know what I’m binging tonight, thanks for the alert that UA-cam somehow couldn’t guess, cheers!
The build quality of this laptop clearly speaks for itself, Ive killed about 4 mid spec laptops in the past which didn't even last 2-3 years with relatively casual/uni use
ah wow this takes me back, looks like this is a common perspective, fantasizing about a bulky alienware or XPS machine back in the day. Interesting to put everything in perspective now.
You should look into the Dell XPS M1730. It was the last gaming laptop sold by Dell before the Alienware acquisition. Sadly they are fairly pricey nowadays, but they had a ton of neat hardware in them. Option for SLI graphics, dedicated standalone Ageia PhysX, Core 2 Extreme CPU, and multiple 2.5" hard drives.
The fact that this 16 years old beast still can run (even beaten up like that) is something. I got a mid-range Asus laptop (2012/2013). I used it carefully (it stayed on my desk, rarely moved out), took a good care of it. But in the end, it's still dying. 2017 the fan stopped working, some keys not working, 2 usb ports died, turned off on it's own (even with good add-in fans on the bottom. Then one day it refused to turn on. I tried to fix it (brought it to a repair shop). They said the motherboard is dead.
Attenborough impersonation was a 10/10.....I want this laptop so much...it is beautiful...yeah I am weird...when you booted that WinXP Log On Screen, I saw pummelled by nostalgia, our first home HP Compaq PC....man...2004 - 2006...i miss those days...I still have a Windows 7 Dell Vostro from 2010 that still works...Dell laptops are really built well I guess...I don't know about the newer ones though....
It feels like everything went so fast until like 2008-2009. My 3k computer from 2005 became outdated/useless after only a few years, while I still use my 1.5k machine from 2009, with first gen i7.
Wow I VERY nearly got this system back in 2006 but ended up getting a Dell XPS M1710 with a Duo T2600 and GTX7950Go for $1500 less money! It was double the specs for almost half the money! That XPS was a beast and beat all my friends desktop pcs at the time!
I scored a 2013 Alienware laptop a few years back and gave it to my eldest stepson at the time as a b'day present. From memory it had an Ivy Bridge i7 and Nvidia 640M and ran pretty well. And it handled Crisis at 1080p medium settings at about 40fps too so it wasn't too bad although it did get quite hot thus requiring him to face his desk sideways to the ac to keep it cool enough to not throttle.
This is one aspect of modern computing that I love. I hated how fast the greatest technology turned obsolete growing up. I was born in 1990 and I went through so many computers to chase bleeding edge performance. Today if you buy an expensive laptop or build a high performance desktop, you can count on it being fine for close to 10 years.
I was also born in '90 and was really into gaming tech as it was getting obsoleted every 4 months by the newest, latest, greatest. I spent my spare time reading the Tom's Hardware reviews on the newest, latest, greatest and drooling over it all. I've also come to the same conclusion about modern hardware--processing power is cheap these days. The average cell phone blows a gaming computer from the mid-00s away. My Q6600 held me over from '07 to '16 and I only upgraded because GTA V online was just too much for that old thing. I'm hoping my 11700K and RTX 3080 hold me over until 2028-2030, by which time I suspect prices will be so absurd I'll just build something cheap and basic, which will run all of the worthwhile titles of the next 3 years and the last 30 years perfectly fine while being fairly priced.
I just remembered that I still to this day hold many 2nd-place HWBot world records for benchmarks with a Turion ML-37 under the name ZorchThatCPU. I used to have all the golds for the benchmarks that were meaningful at the time, but I quit competitive benching and a friend/rival beat most or all of my world records after that. Good for Bones! We were both benching the ML-37 in a desktop board, obviously, the DFI Infinity nF4X. Best Socket 754 overclocking board ever made. Ya gotta run it with some Winbond BH-5 or Samsung TCCD memory to get the full effect. Ah, to think back to when I had time to simply piss it away on repetitive attempts to run a benchmark, for just... endless hours. What a luxury that was. I never properly appreciated it at the time.
Haha I did an Attenborough impersonation last week 😂. It's addictive. Nice content, btw. I had an m9700 and m9750. I've owned alienwares for years. The trick is to shop their lowest to mid-range model and never upgrade ram or storage. Also, use the outlet. Same warranty but considerable savings.
Best nature documentary in the history of documentaries
'The next Sir David Frederick Attenborough' ...aww...that warmed my heart.
Truly a genius at work here :)
He needs a nature mocdoc channel
4:20
Don't you disrespect Sir David Attenborough
-How old are you?
-Windows XP.
-Respect sir.
Passed through 98 to 10, using every single one. 98, ME, XP with every service pack, Vista, 7 just when it came out, 8, 8.1 and updated to 10 as soon as it was released. My first time with a PC was at 3 back in 2001. Later, I tested 95 for curiosity.
jokes on you I was using xp in 2011 (11yo att)
Windows 95 was my first pc os I used then 98, 2000, xp, vista, 7, 8, and 10 I also use Mac and iOS
DOS son.
I used windows 7 to windows 10 lol
It was worth the tilting camera alone
Collin
@collin hey man long time no see how's your channel doing still active?
Anyone remember those Acer laptops that used to flip the camera all the way? I recorded so many classes
Can u bargain this 4000 dollar laptop ?
I know I miss tilting cameras on laptop too. Feels better knowing you are not being watched and you could record classes.
2006 was actually the year Dell bought Alienware out.
This is one of the last non-Dell Alienware products to be released.
Alienware was in Miami when they sold out to Dell
Salty Floridian I have one of the last M17xr4 with the box and 120hz 3D screens with the box and 3D glasses. It’s a great very fast notebook...a dying breed!
Stonewall Jackson I’ve owned both the M17xr4 and the MacBook Pro 15...both are nice but u have to deal w windows...but the new 2004 win 10 is good on my Alienware
Stonewall Jackson I lean now towards the Alienware but be careful which one.
The newer ones don’t allow I to chg the GPU ...it’s now soldered to MB. Not good. I have an original owner M15x from the Miami Alienware factory...loaded and mint
@@saltyfloridaman7163 you can't upgrade laptop GPUs so that's complete bs
I mean you can with the WiFi card slot but then it's not really a laptop is it
Meanwhile in a random eBay seller's mind
"This is still worth $ 3999!"
i did a quick ebay search and found one in blue for 625 dollars XD
@@KOSMOS1701A Exactly my point! xD
Such value, much ripoff .. so disappointing :p
Depreciation is a b-tch. Telling someone in 2008 who spent $3500 in 2001 that there was nothing I could do for them was even worse.
@@Doc_Valparaiso I know but it is what it is, once tried to buy an old laptop from a dude, he asked € 150 for a 11 year old basic little business machine; his reasoning "It still works .. mostly" suffices to say it didn't come home with me :/
reminds me of a friend who had a asus 'rog' republic of gamer laptop with red tints and stuff. with a like gtx640? ish cant remember but had a i7 but yeha was old we said we give you 200€ for it for the fun its old shit but he wanted 350 ish we said nahhh good luck.
he went to our local pawn shop and sold it there for 350€ +50 credits at there store...
WTF
and they sold it 4 weeks later for 650€ to someone who wanted to play the sims... welcome to france.. say it has a i7 and asus rog they will buy and dont understand its old and wont game... but hey we were laughing and happy for him that he god that much for it and that the shop sold it with in 1 month was ever stranger... but its often like that people buy at he pawn shop more for double price then on facebook / local craigslist...
my lg g3 nobody wanted to buy it for 130€ i went ot the pawn shop they would give me 100€... so i kept it ended up selling it local at 100€...
how does the pawn shop make profit on something i couldnt sell for more then 100€ but they would take for 100€ and so resell it for atleast 150€.....
but they know there clients... people like to see the item in a shop in france.... 'better quality' more expensive is better it there motto...
I remember being so amazed by this laptop, drooling over images of it and wishing if i was rich enough to afford it. It's amazing how fast technology becomes outdated, at this rate you'd be stupid to buy anything
The key is to buy based on price performance. So what makes sense to in the marketplace.
I remember how they used to put desktop CPUs into a laptop so they crushed all competition but even just browsing the web you got under 2 hours of battery life. Gaming it was just a requirement to be plugged in. I wanted one so bad for a LAN rig but a Shuttle setup was so much more practical. I couldn't afford either so I lugged my heavy case and CRT monitor around instead.
The story of the buyer of this laptop in 2006: So i was drunk
Thats why gaming on laptops suck, even if the cpu could support both gpu's it would either overheat so much that you could cook an egg on it or come up with some other bs that would make you regret paying 4 grand for it. A 2006 machine with 4k$ price that can barely run 2007 games is stupid even for a laptop though.
@@spongeboimebob thats why i still have the hp trashtop that the estate has give to me, it only has 2.0ghz cpu and a 4gb of ram... But it runs better than that bad boy from 2006 xkdnxnd xD
@@spongeboimebob ?? What are you talking about. I have a MSI Raider for school that I also use for gaming and I get 65°C on cpu and GPU on RDR2 with mixed high and ultra settings. Downvolting and repasting does wonders, but it's already clear you don't know anything about it.
@@svenversteeg5486 This dude doesn't seem to have seen recent gaming laptops :)
Talha Saraç Times have changed drastically, boy 👦 For the good :-)
This was the laptop made to answer the question “can it run crysis”
It's crazy, Bioshock can be played on an integrated gpu nowadays.
It's actually the way I first experienced it, on an intel hd 3000.
Frank Thoughts I suffered with first gen hd 1000 on a dual core i3-550, it didn’t even support antialiasing
Can run on a phone soc as well
@@twiittter I salute your determination!
Runs great on my i3 3110M HD4000 2.16gb vram, fallout new Vegas also. Just need 8gb+ ram in dual channel and I have 16gb. Cheap 2012 Dell laptop, with $100 worth of upgrades over time. It games unplugged, the reason why I keep it although it's not my primary anymore.
"14 years ago" man time sure flies fast
Time doesn't wait for no man.
I wasn't even born when this thing launched lol.
@@hariskhan01 i was 2 yr old
I want to start a Techno Amish collective with nothing but good technology like this only from the pre fad era that overtook us post-2012.
4:27-4:56 Istg this man deserves AT LEAST 1M subscribers. What a king
At least an Oscar I’d say 😂
@@RandomGaminginHD next video, make a funny joke
RandomGamingin240p
Alex Mason it wont be long until he reaches 1m trust me.
Legendary acting
God I remember absolutely loving their designs as a teen. I LOVED their old tower cases.
@Jeffrey Grindle eh, it’s just the coolers imo. and you can upgrade those for like 16 dollars with some cooler master fans to replace them with.
Petition for RGinHD to make a new channel called RandomNatureinHD?
Then if there isn't enough nostalgia, bring on the RandomNostalgiaHD channel.
I want him to bait and pet some seagulls.
Yes
RandomNatureinSD
Please. I need it
Man I used to be in love with this units back in the day.
Old alienware looked amazing on the outside lol really over the top but didn't age very well
If you covered it in RGB, it could look like a laptop from today.
@@DrearierSpider1 I kinda feel like it's a reverse sleeper pc looks amazing but performance not much
All of those gaming laptops have such a shitty and cheap design
neither did the trackpad
i still have the Area 51 models, still the best!
Water blocks and all are still good!
This brings me back to when I stopped a friend from buying an MSI GT83 for nearly £5k. I found out later he went for a used Alienware desktop that blew up as soon as he plugged it into power.
Yeah, I'm gonna need you to narrate a hardware video like you did with the rainforest.
I had one of these at my old job. I was doing corporate video and needed something mobile for live events. This was about as fast and powerful as you could get at the time that could could take on a plane.... I think the AC brick weighed more than my current laptop and it's own AC brick...
This reminds me of the time when every years' new hardware made such a huge difference. 4000 dollars for stutter after a year? No. I'm still using my 1000 dollar 3630qm 650SLI laptop after 7 years. Everything up to 2017 ran fine on 1080p low.
Martin Stoyanov I have a gtx 670 in my desktop
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 Fancy! :D
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 i have a 750, currently saving for a better cpu though
I had a GTX 660M laptop from 2012-2018. It did well in 1080p, especially after I overclocked it.
Now i have a Asus Turbo GTX 1080. It does similarly well but in 4k (also Overclocked).
@@MrGunzngirlz good for you
This makes me feel like benchmarking my Dell XPS M1730 (from 2007). It's been upgraded a bit over the years, and is currently sporting Core 2 Extreme x9000, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD + 1TB HD and GeForce 8800M GTX SLi. I bought it after a serious accident back in late 2007, because I couldn't sit normally at a desk for several months, and so I needed to be able to game with my legs up. It was my primary system for over two years. And was used frequently for a lot longer.
Mine was my daily driver from 2008 until 2014 or 2015 when the gpu cooked itself. Showed its age but a fantastic machine. Recently got it up and running again with a replacement part too.
probably the only laptop ever with more gpu's than cpu cores
@iewind good morning
@@jmmjjmmjjmmj you just a creep jk
@@xXqc_Zod47 i was being polite though, wishing my guy a good morning 2 days later
@@jmmjjmmjjmmj good morning
@@AsgardTheFatcel ty its genuinely morning rn
imagine modifying an old alienware laptop chassis to fit a newer laptops internals
Whats the point when those upgrades cost a arm and a leg. And the newer laptops would pack in as much power if not more while offering other benefits.
@@siyzerix fun of course , same reason youtubers build pcs i crazy everyday things , and why the make sleeper pcs. take and old school alienware and either put in a new school laptop mobo and stuff , or go one better and find a way to put an actual pc in the chassis. would be an epic challenge
@@thewizardoftech5075 See, now that makes sense.
When youtubers who say ''Oh just get a old thinkpad and upgrade its screen, cpu, gpu, etc. because all new budget laptops suck'' pisses me off because thats not true.
But if you wanna do it for fun, sure. Its all good.
Wow. The Single-Core Processor is really disappointing on a machine like this.
I just looked it up. Upgrade path: None. No dual core even if you tried.
@@AmstradExin typical...forces you to upgrade, even if u spend 4k on a laptop.
Makes you wonder how people will see the current gen alienware area 51m worth $4k to people 14 yrs into the future
yep, considering that a year later every mid-range $500 laptop did have a dual core.
Topet Hernaez ...not really, as the RTX cards are EXTREMELY powerful and will be able to still play every SINGLE game 14 years from now with ray tracing disabled. Literally the only thing that will be lost is the ability to ray trace in a game 14 years from now on current laptop hardware, especially since RTX was made for the upcoming next gen games anyways. Meaning it will still be able to play games perfectly fine on at least medium settings 14 years from now with ray tracing disabled, just one single generation after this one coming up. Heck, they might even be able to run them with the lowest ray-tracing option enabled still. So no.
Great video. I remember when I was younger I'd go on the Alienware website and custom build something that was around $5k in cost. Knowing I could never afford that it still made me happy just building those gaming pcs on their website. Then I learned how fast PC technology goes out of style and if you wait just a year or two, that tech that was $5k would drop almost in half in that time. Good times.
RIP Windows 7
October 22, 2009 to January 14, 2020
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I remember seeing this laptop in Die Hard 4.0 and thinking to myself: "man that's a cool ass laptop".
There was another movie where they had this exact laptop as well and all I can remember is that it was a game involving a witch.
" *THIS* is the alienware Aurora"
random demuro
@@JowoHD and am going to tell you it's quarks and features
How about Aurora Borealis when
you're steaming the hams just to sent on a plate and then brought into the next room?
why do i read it in his voice?
Seriously theres no way I could ever dislike a video from you man. You are probably one of the most likable people on this planet. Even if someone doesn't find you exciting, I doubt anyone could actually DISLIKE you.
Good video as always. love to watch your stuff.
This short documentary brought up to me some nostalgy to me.
And you clearly deserve an oscar for that 20/10 narration.
"What's inside this alienware laptop"
*Grabs chainsaw*
Meanwhile inside the mind of a female
@@dolbywolby9100 haha very bold of you to assume I'm a female
@@jersey2450 IT'S a Trap!
"Do you have $4000 to spend on a gaming laptop? Neither do I! " this gave me chuckles
I actually have the 4k model and it's still working to this day (and holds a charge with 89% battery total life left) with Windows 10 and in almost mint condition. This month I decided to finally sell it lol love the video!
4k in 2006?
@@pietroalessandrini yep that’s how much the laptop cost when I bought it in 06
@@ChahtaAnumpa lol I thought you meant the resolution!
@@pietroalessandrini ohhhh lol I can see where you’d be very confused then! No I meant 4,000$ USD lol 😅😅😅😅
Nature documentary had me dying
He sounds like Winnie the Pooh.
I had this Laptop, I used to take it with me to Yu Gi Oh tournaments and challenge people to Mugen and MAME Street Fighter matches because in those days it took alot of power to run those properly. My brother bought the X1900 ATI with the Core Duo laptop and it smoked this one even with the SLI in newer games. Laptop mobo eventually shorted.
The xbox 360 was released in 2005 and ps3 in 2006, so contemporaries of this laptop. This 2000+ dollar gaming laptop likely can't play any games that look as nice as a lot of ps3 and 360 games.
It's an Alienware, what did you expect?
Any gaming laptop of this era would suffer the same fate.
@@SaoGage what are you talking about a 700 bucks gaming laptop (acer nitro 5) could beat ps4 or xbox out of the water
@@kire929 what do you mean there are alienware laptops that have a rtx 2070
it's a laptop made for portability in it's era, it's not as giantic as ps3 or xbox
Some time in the future, we would be looking at the rtx 2080 just like this....
It's just 2024 and we are lookin it at just how you said
Mate that David Attenborough impersonation was spot on! 😂
I had an Alienware M9700i-r1. My old man got it for me as a college gift in 2006. It cost $2500, and had an Intel T7200 and 1GB of ram (thought i upgraded to 3GB towards the end. It had the same Dual 256mb cards, though I have seen reports of support for a specific 512x2 configuration. Fun fact, you could get the screen upgraded to 1920x1200, and the CPU up to a T7600 at 2.3Ghz. I'm sure if you maxed the fuck out of it, it would have been pretty future-proofed till at least the 2010s.
4:28 How dare you exclude Dave.
For the record, there was also an Intel edition, called the 9750. That did have a dual core option, but it had a very strange Intel drawback. While the CPU could claim a 64bit address space, the chipset was limited to a 32bit address space. As such, it resulted in a strange scenario where it was possible to upgrade to 4GB of ram on a 64Bit machine, while still dealing with the 3.5GB limits associated with a 32bit OS.
4:27 to 4:56 i can smell an Oscar
*in the background Oscar smelling like onions*
6:06 mate I thought the reflection was me, it tripped me out
10/10 on that impression lol
This is type of beast I've been looking for, I kind of want a dope xp laptop again.
Hey everyone hope you're having a good day
Thanks buddy,you too!
ThebigM lol
I'm not, Amazon shipped my package to another house.
@@mouaxiong8618 hahaha
Was going good, unitl I got stuck in a level in a game.
Really really love this channel... My man I hope you go even further with this channel - a million subs on the way hopefully!!
Your videos are so thorough but not overly lengthy! Your scripts are so so well written! It’s also clear you know your stuff!
The work you put into your videos here really shows... Keep it up
That documentary was amazing lmao
Yes
loved the 1970s wall lights & shades lol :-) 6:40
"Notebook"
More like Oxford Dictionary: Chonk Edition
If by notebook they mean a 3 ring binder.
@@christophermorin9036 a *full* 3-ring binder that is.
I like how this guy reviews stuff.Clean and simple.
Props for playing Midnight Club 2 as well btw !
midnight club 2 and windows XP, so nostalgic 😍😍😍
Love how estimated ship date shows end of next month 2020. Amazing as if we can still order this beast today with its full price.
6:55 my man there lookin handsome af🔥🔥🔥
The side bezels on that screen though are impressive!
No finger prints when opening
Man i wish i had the 2012-2013 models at least, they are still so damn expensive...
took some balls showing the world that home documentary....NICE!
Damn, nice Amazon rainforest. That is a really scary lion.
That documentary is one of my favourite things now
In future,2080ti and i9 will be in memories like this😳
more like now, 2080ti was a scam
Ah yes Windows movie maker, used to make ms paint animations with it back in the day when I was a pre-teen
4:29 became green ham gaming for a sec there
BadCompanyLuma bro I’m so glad that he’s back
@@tatsuyastudios i know right 😃
He’s back?!? Wooo! I haven’t seen his videos in like a year (or whenever his Xbox was smoking a sig), I know what I’m binging tonight, thanks for the alert that UA-cam somehow couldn’t guess, cheers!
The build quality of this laptop clearly speaks for itself, Ive killed about 4 mid spec laptops in the past which didn't even last 2-3 years with relatively casual/uni use
The design looks so modern
Looks really alien (pun definitely intended) especially with that gray/silver body
How about a Naruto sprint into Area 51 with one?
ah wow this takes me back, looks like this is a common perspective, fantasizing about a bulky alienware or XPS machine back in the day. Interesting to put everything in perspective now.
i remember when the name alienware meant the best. anytime someone would say they got a new pc, you would ask if it was an alienware
I had this laptop in the green color, still got it somewhere. Loved this thing, did everything I needed it to.
Can we have the full clip of nature flim?😂
Yeah why not haha
yes please!
@@RandomGaminginHD
Yes plz!
I was reading an article on the history of alienware 2 days ago and this laptop was mentioned. Nice to get a full hands on of it.
I love his and these types of videos
You should look into the Dell XPS M1730. It was the last gaming laptop sold by Dell before the Alienware acquisition. Sadly they are fairly pricey nowadays, but they had a ton of neat hardware in them.
Option for SLI graphics, dedicated standalone Ageia PhysX, Core 2 Extreme CPU, and multiple 2.5" hard drives.
Nice build, if you can find one with a Core2Duo i would definitely pick one up, they are timeless! =D
It looks amazing as a retro laptop.
@@lukasg4807 ☺️ yup, agree
Love the description
Advantage
Standard features.
watching this on alienware m15 2019
The fact that this 16 years old beast still can run (even beaten up like that) is something. I got a mid-range Asus laptop (2012/2013). I used it carefully (it stayed on my desk, rarely moved out), took a good care of it. But in the end, it's still dying. 2017 the fan stopped working, some keys not working, 2 usb ports died, turned off on it's own (even with good add-in fans on the bottom. Then one day it refused to turn on. I tried to fix it (brought it to a repair shop). They said the motherboard is dead.
4:27-4:56 is pure gold 😂😂
Weeb
@@misfitpants54 fucking weeb
Attenborough impersonation was a 10/10.....I want this laptop so much...it is beautiful...yeah I am weird...when you booted that WinXP Log On Screen, I saw pummelled by nostalgia, our first home HP Compaq PC....man...2004 - 2006...i miss those days...I still have a Windows 7 Dell Vostro from 2010 that still works...Dell laptops are really built well I guess...I don't know about the newer ones though....
Bruh, I was born when this got out lmao.
Please make a dedicated channel to that XP interlude, that was golden
Ever wondered if you could fit modern hardware in the chasis of these laptops so they become sleeper beasts?
Waste of time and money
Most laptop motherboards have different layouts therefore pretty much useless
If the Alienware was a Clevo, maybe?
It feels like everything went so fast until like 2008-2009. My 3k computer from 2005 became outdated/useless after only a few years, while I still use my 1.5k machine from 2009, with first gen i7.
For how much do you think i can get a used/non working one
I'm into old computers
manic co i can sell you one. I have the green one in pristine condition. Only problem i think the gpus are playing up.✌️
So far you have this channel, the Classic Gaming channel, and the car review channel. When are you going to create a nature documentary channel?
thank god you had clothes on while filming the screen
Why wouldn't he?
@@KHaLeD-jv7fu it's starting to get warm outside now
@@KHaLeD-jv7fu wait... its not normal to walk around the house naked/half nude?
@@bitchwormpuddin1499 not when your parents and siblings are around..
Amazing cinematography on that short nature documentary!
5:25 Press F for family and Ext. family xD
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Wow I VERY nearly got this system back in 2006 but ended up getting a Dell XPS M1710 with a Duo T2600 and GTX7950Go for $1500 less money! It was double the specs for almost half the money! That XPS was a beast and beat all my friends desktop pcs at the time!
You kinda sound like Winnie the Pooh in that clip of yours
I like how bezels used to be big on older laptops
Alienware gear was kind of the “Apple” of the pc world-pretty,but overpriced.
I'm pretty sure apple is the apple of the PC world. Alienware a whole nother beast
@@ayylmao459 what do you mean, apple's laptops are trash
@@barbrose4987 I’m saying don’t compare apple to Alienware because Alienware is better. If you knew how to read you wouldn’t be asking
@@barbrose4987 apple already makes computers so calling Alienware the apple of the pc world makes no sense
@@ayylmao459 whatever
I scored a 2013 Alienware laptop a few years back and gave it to my eldest stepson at the time as a b'day present. From memory it had an Ivy Bridge i7 and Nvidia 640M and ran pretty well. And it handled Crisis at 1080p medium settings at about 40fps too so it wasn't too bad although it did get quite hot thus requiring him to face his desk sideways to the ac to keep it cool enough to not throttle.
This is one aspect of modern computing that I love. I hated how fast the greatest technology turned obsolete growing up. I was born in 1990 and I went through so many computers to chase bleeding edge performance. Today if you buy an expensive laptop or build a high performance desktop, you can count on it being fine for close to 10 years.
I was also born in '90 and was really into gaming tech as it was getting obsoleted every 4 months by the newest, latest, greatest. I spent my spare time reading the Tom's Hardware reviews on the newest, latest, greatest and drooling over it all. I've also come to the same conclusion about modern hardware--processing power is cheap these days. The average cell phone blows a gaming computer from the mid-00s away. My Q6600 held me over from '07 to '16 and I only upgraded because GTA V online was just too much for that old thing. I'm hoping my 11700K and RTX 3080 hold me over until 2028-2030, by which time I suspect prices will be so absurd I'll just build something cheap and basic, which will run all of the worthwhile titles of the next 3 years and the last 30 years perfectly fine while being fairly priced.
@@406Steven Yeah we have hit a technological plateau and I love it.
I just remembered that I still to this day hold many 2nd-place HWBot world records for benchmarks with a Turion ML-37 under the name ZorchThatCPU. I used to have all the golds for the benchmarks that were meaningful at the time, but I quit competitive benching and a friend/rival beat most or all of my world records after that. Good for Bones! We were both benching the ML-37 in a desktop board, obviously, the DFI Infinity nF4X. Best Socket 754 overclocking board ever made. Ya gotta run it with some Winbond BH-5 or Samsung TCCD memory to get the full effect. Ah, to think back to when I had time to simply piss it away on repetitive attempts to run a benchmark, for just... endless hours. What a luxury that was. I never properly appreciated it at the time.
Hands down the best era of Alienware design, both for notebooks and desktop cases.
That was a very good David Attenborough impression.
A friend of mine had it. It was untouchable back then
lol that DA segment was gold mate. very funny. ps, you need glasses old boy :)
These types of videos are the best!
Haha I did an Attenborough impersonation last week 😂. It's addictive. Nice content, btw. I had an m9700 and m9750. I've owned alienwares for years. The trick is to shop their lowest to mid-range model and never upgrade ram or storage. Also, use the outlet. Same warranty but considerable savings.