Alienware's tricked-out
Hangar18 HTPC launched last month, and Computer Shopper was first to put a unit through its paces. The reviewer had praise for the sheer number of inputs and outputs, nifty Gyration remote, and the terrific sound from the 1000W amp, but found that the AMD Athlon X2 4600+ and NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS were a little slow for games and other compute-intensive tasks -- in fact, benchmark results were "close to entry-level." We're not certain that's what Alienware was aiming for with its $3,199 flagship HTPC, but the Hangar18 did shine when used as a media player: the only other faults Computer Shopper found were the lack of QAM tuners and a finicky DVD drive. With a final score of 8.6, it looks like the Hangar18 lives up to its advance billing -- now here's hoping Alienware rolls out those promised Blu-ray and CableCARD options sooner rather than later.
posted Jul 2nd 2007 11:53PM
wow, someone hit that thing with the ugly-stick a few times. yuck.
Hangar 18...?
Seriously, should've been "Docking Bay 94"
More like "Area 51"
I'm just thinking of the song, Hangar 18.
Well at least thier other pcs are powerful. How do they justify the price on this one. The thing costs more than a friggin mac pro.
Did they get the design intern to draw this one up?
Because it sucks. Especially for that kind of money.
seems like somebody over at alienware likes Megadeth
Dont buy alienware. They have the worse techinical support. Trust me, I bought 4 of them prevoiusly. Never again!
That thing is a piece of junk.
If you dont want stresses, headaches and misery from this thing not working properly (which will happen), then stay clear!!!
Mo!
I think it looks fine.
I am actualy miffed about this if you notice you can only record 1080i on one channel and standard DEF on another with the highest end unit starting at 3,849.00
Record 2 TV shows at once (1 Analog & 1 HD/Digital Tuner) with 1080i option
While my scientific atlanta DVR box from TimeWarner will record two 1080i channels at once so i can record lets say Beer fest priemere on starz HD while i watch a rerun of sapranos in HD
To Hell with that.
Alienware is a subsidiary of Dell. Do I need to say more?
Wot!
No BluRay
No QAM
No CableCard support.
I'm flustered...I mean like, what the heck? Why bother to roll out a totally crippled $3K product? Wait until they upgrade folks....
Hey cool! If it works as well as their computers in that price range, it will be broken and overheated in 6 months! (bitter)
That is insane. Http://TVease.net sells media centers that put this to shame. Their top of the line machine is only 1699 and comes with 1 TB hard drive, 2 HD QAM tuners, 7.1 digital audio, and has 1080P through HDMI. All for 1699 and that is their most expensive one.