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Please help me decide which ALienware laptop buy buy from th

Apr 8, 2015 8:51PM PDT

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Hello, I would like to by gaming laptop for playing games and to be able to move to different places. For me its important that laptp would last long, not get worse or parts would stop work. My budget is around 1-1.3k pounds, I don't mind if its refurbished. I think its not a big deal or is it? I don't mind about the battery life, I would prefer Windows 7, but 8 will be okay too I guess.I want laptop to last at least few years, SSD maybe important, if it helps play game faster, mostly I will be playing cs go and Sc2. I don't really need optical driver, although it would be okay.I can't decide if I should buy m17 or m18, there are all laptops which I find out and have the best deals, I think two of m17 more powerful than mx18? Or is it similar? Because two of m17 got really good gpu, cpu, but I don't know that much after all, just tried to google a bit. And maybe 18inch would be nicer to be able to have a little bigger screen.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201326584398http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201326584398http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331520347792http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321716327064http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151633125641Thank you a lot if you will spare some time and help me out

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Used gaming laptop? Not what I would look at.
Apr 9, 2015 1:44AM PDT

The last one looks new. So for that and the better GPU/CPU it's the only one I might consider.
Bob

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Maybe any other good laptops for similar price? E..g XMG or
Apr 9, 2015 2:57AM PDT
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Why XMG?
Apr 9, 2015 3:40AM PDT

It looks to have a lesser GPU.
Bob

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about allieware
Apr 9, 2015 4:32AM PDT

Well some guy told me that for alienware only 2 ram slots, 1 2.5" hdd, soldered CPU + GPU, 180watt psu + bios issue.. so a little scared

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Your criteria.
Apr 9, 2015 4:41AM PDT

The move to less slots, solder is to get the size down, prices down, etc. What BIOS issue? I guess some don't like EFI so they won't like any machines from about 2014 on?
Bob

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Dell
Apr 19, 2015 8:25AM PDT

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