http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/ Engadget Comments for Alienware's Sentia m3200 business-minded laptop reviewed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/
This reminds me of the episode of the simpsons when Homer comes to work in a pink shirt and gets promoted...]]>Apr 3rd 2006 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/

You obviously haven't been to many Fortune 500 board meetings.....]]>Apr 3rd 2006 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/
Try small game companies. After all, when the word "business" is said or used, it doesn't always mean for corporate customers. I'm sure some guys at Blizzard use Alienware's "business" machines.

Besides, what do you expect? A Dell-looking machine? Oh wait, nevermind.]]>Apr 3rd 2006 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/
4/3/06 RIP Engadget]]>Apr 3rd 2006 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 3rd 2006 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 4th 2006 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 4th 2006 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/
Dell, known for low-to-medium priced computers for home and business purchases a computer company known for high-end gaming systems... and then uses the brand to produce low-to-medium priced computers for home and business?

Does this whole exercise seem pointless to anyone else?]]>Apr 4th 2006 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/glowing alien head == WTF

I'm sorry but you obviously don't work in the world of first impressions. Go into an lawyer's office and have them whip out a laptop across the table with an gilled case design and a glowing alien head. Doesn't exactly speak to professionalism. It would be like putting a tricked out blinking LED case at your receptionist desk. I've never been to a company that has ever done that simply because you don’t want to make potential customers go WTF. That case design is a 7 of 10 on the WTF scale.
]]>Apr 4th 2006 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/Apr 4th 2006 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/I bought one and it's video card died after 3 weeks. I had them send me a new mobile video card and that one died after 2 months. They then wanted me to send the entire laptop back to them, which they kept for a month...then sent it back with the speakers disconnected...
On the "Quality Assurance" checklist they included with it had a big check mark next to "Sound Works"....Um...BullShiat. Sound no workey… How the fark do you miss that the speakers aren’t even plugged in.
They tried to blame it on FedEx, saying it was mishandled during shipping.
B.S. If that were true then AW needs better packaging and a sturdier product.
I sent it back to get the speakers reconnected...a month later I get it back with a F'IN CRACK IN THE SCREEN.
Again it goes back. Then it returns and right out of the box... MID-BOOT it BSODs. It won't stay on for more than 30 minutes.

.... A GAMEING MACHINE...that overheats and shuts off with no warning after 30 minutes (MAX) of use.
(And it doesn’t need to be a graphics intensive game/application. It'll crash when using WORD, or Firefox.)
Freaking only game I can play on it is solitaire, or minesweeper because the DVD drive won't even read disks anymore. (It was replaced too, at one point).

DON'T BUY ALIENWARE.
If you MUST get A.W., get a tower from them, and the LONGEST warranty you can possibly get... but even then... you could BUILD a better, cheaper, more reliable one yourself.

If you're going to get a laptop and need rock solid reliability, go Lenovo.
If you want decent quality for the price, go Dell.
If you want style, go Sony.
If you want all three with a cult, and limited software, support and still want to pay out the arse...get an mac.

Just whatever you do...unless you're sadistic...DON'T BUY ALIENWARE.
You'll be doing yourself a BIG favor.
6 months after you order a laptop from them (about the time you're laptop arrives) they'll have a new model, and the quality of service you'll get from them will be NILL.

Don't fall for their BS. Alienware "gaming laptops" are JUNK.
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What I don't get is why the design is so half-assed. Both Dell and IBM have 14" laptop designs tageted at businesses that don't have integrated graphics. You'd think this might occur to a company that specializes in gaming computers. 3 hours of battery life is pathetic in this segment. The weight specs are on the 14" aren't bad, though 4 pounds for the 12" seems excessive.

Overall, I thought Alienware was supposed to make powerful computers. But in this size class, if you want power, upgrade to a ThinkPad or Latitude. Who would have thought?
]]>Apr 4th 2006 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://appserver.lenovo.com.cn/product/channel/product_detail.asp?productid=5147 (look up the exchange rates for yourself, please, they seem to change by the second)]]>Apr 4th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/03/alienwares-sentia-m3200-business-minded-laptop-reviewed/
I have 2 Alienware laptops at my company, both stopped working after a few short months (one arrived 2 months late after unexpected delays and finally shipped it to the wrong address). Both have been sent back countless times, and both needed considerable effort to convince the tech support to replace any parts (8+ hours on multiple phone calls before they even START to think about replacing hardware). Paying my employees to sit on the phone for 8+ hours on tech support means it's cheaper to purchase the parts myself--making their warrenty pointless.

I've had Dell laptops, Macs, Toshibas, and Sonys. Alienware is the worst of them all, and their tech support is even worse than the products they sell. DON'T BUY ALIENWARE.
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The answer everyone else already knows of course is that they're talking about the type of business that computer manufacturers love and that the category was made for. It's the type that buys 200+ laptops (and/or 500+ desktops) at a shot. They want every one of them exactly the same so that IT doesn't have to manage 50 different models and they can buy replacement parts by the case. They want the computer to do a job for a good price and they don't care what it looks like to a sector-G drone. Like it or not that is business.

Maybe that's not your 5 person business with no network where no one visits customers and people come to work in their slippers (don't get me wrong I've worked there) but that's not what computer manufacturers are talking about when they talk about business computers. They're not saying you aren't a business they're just not marketing business computers in your direction.

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