The Best Things Come In Small Packages

[TheBilgeRat]

I want the Vic version.
I am not for sure I want to buy a machine that has Amgia written on it just yet.

Riiight, because "Vic" was used all over the place in the original Amiga line, as in "Get your budget Vic A2000".

[TheBilgeRat]

Oh yes, now options scalable starting at $1499

Another $500 saved :-)

Surely, for 500$ less you get  i3-2130 3.4Ghz  instead of i5
and 4GB RAM only.

Is this overpriced or not?

1400 dollars for my system with an I7 2600K unlocked, Asus P8z68V PRO motherboard, 1000 watt gold Cooler Master PSU, Cooler Master case, 128G SSD, 16G ram, GTX560 Fermi, card reader, and pioneer blu ray drive.  THis was 6 months ago.  OH, and win7 Pro.

You tell me if they are overpriced garbage or not.

[TheBilgeRat]

Yes, low quality.  1400 dollars at newegg will get you a top of the line mobo, PSU, memory, hard drive (gen 2 SSD), name brand case, card reader, blu ray player, and an NVIDIA card two off from the top of the line.  If I bump my figure to 1550, that covers the Leopold Otaku brown Tenkeyless, Razer Abyssus and Puretrack Talent mousepad.

At my price point, you're building an I3.  I can get an I3 from Dell for 300 bucks.

[TheBilgeRat]

@Tripitaka:  
MEMORY    8GB (2x4GB) Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz    

I need more RAM.  This machine is partially for work, and I'm not using this hardware for serious gaming. Alienware appears to be Dell on the back-end, no wonder they have their act together.  I think my mistake has been to assume that a name is the same thing as a brand experience.

If Commodore comes out with some third-party evaluations in the very near future, I will pay attention, but for a guy like me to be able to understand holes in their engineering is not a good sign.

Thanks for the replies!

Then go to either:

http://www.crucial.com/

OR:

http://www.newegg.com/

and buy one of the super duper 16GB ram upgrades available for under 100 bucks with warranties of their own.  Seriously - if an extra 8G of ram is making you spend a grand more for hardware, you need to spend some more time researching the field.