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( This is an article by Notebook
Guide. Considering that the article is about
Alienware and
DELL, M-Tech Laptops sure gets a large mention, probably the
largest single focus of the whole article.
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Alienware
Laptops & Voodoo Laptops
- The truth about both
Alienware and
Voodoo laptops and also Widow PC is that they are no different than
many other brands on the market today. All laptops are built by the
same three or four companies in Taiwan. In the past
Alienware
purchased and re-labeled a great laptop manufactured by a company
called Clevo At some point
Alienware
made the huge mistake of dropping Clevo and going with a company
called Uniwill. In the past the two lowest rated laptop
manufacturers for quality have been a company called ECS and
Uniwill. Uniwill produces a cheap laptop. ECS Produced an even
cheaper laptop. How could this be worse news for
Alienware and
DELL laptop owners. ECS and Uniwill have merged. So you now have
Alienware, a
once esteemed brand lowering it self and its prices by dropping the
high quality laptops they once had in favor of laptops made by a
company that is low levels of support, quality and service. In fact
the past president of ECS once said , when asked about why his
quality and support was so bad, he say" What do you think you are
getting for the price we charge?" A fair enough statement and if
that is your decision when you buy then fine. But what of the many
Alienware and
DELL customers that think because they purchased a
Alienware
they are also getting a great laptop. Is it fair for them to not
know the philosophy behind ECS/Uniwill?
Update July 12 2009, This is a update to the
text above about who makes the
Alienware
laptops. This should have been done quite a while ago but better
late than never. Now in addition to the low quality laptop makers
Uniwill/ECS, DELL and
Alienware now
also use the company call OCZ. OCZ is not a laptop manufacturer but
then again neither was Uniwill or ECS. OCZ is the company that makes
the super cheap Solid State Drives. M-Tech tried these drives, 25%
of them were bad right out of the box. Within 36 hours 60% had
failed. This is the company that makes the laptops that
Alienware
calls there high end gaming laptop. The ones with a backlit
keyboard. Sure they disguise the laptop with a cool feature, but are
you buying it because of the keyboard or because you want a gaming
laptop that can really stomp the daylights out of game. Now back to
the original programming. Not just in price
but also in quality. This was a mistake of huge proportions for
Alienware.
Their quest for an even greater margin of profit has lead to quality
control and support problems that still plague the once elite
company. Now in an attempt to get back some of its lost reputation
they have reintegrated some of the laptops made by Clevo. Sadly
Alienware is
still trying to stretch it bottom line by not always offering he
internal components that best suit the machine. For example.
Alienware and
M-Tech offered the same base machine, each machine was capable of
handling 533MHz RAM and each machine could if built that way hold
SATA hard drives (at first, since our
article they have caved and started offering these at a huge
premium). To make the price
seem less extreme,
Alienware
would not offer the 533MHz RAM nor would SATA be an option. Yes the
laptop was a great laptop, that is why M-Tech offered it under their
product line. However, to not offer the items that would really
unleash the power of the machine, just to save money, is not very
smart. Of course now this issue is old news but it does represent
the true level of commitment they do or do not have.
- Another point we here take issue with at
Alienware is
the level of service you expect
vs. the
service you really get. At M-Tech we have made changes to be able to
offer person to person help. Not generic help in getting you to buy
a laptop as fast as possible but rather help in teaching you what is
best and why it is best. This way we can build your laptop together
and know that it is perfect for your needs. The only way to do this
is to talk with you, and not just a quick chat but for quite a
while. We need to know how you will be using the laptop, what
programs and many more items. Again this takes a lot of one on one
time. Time
Alienware and DELL will not spend with you. If you are not
making a immediate purchase don't expect DELL or
Alienware to
sit and hold your hand while you struggle to understand a
particular piece of technology. You pay enough for them to give this
service , but they won't. And why won't they? Simple. In the book by
Bill Gates, Business at the Speed of Thought In this book
Michael Dell of Dell Computers ( owner of
Alienware
Laptops) is quoted as saying their goal is to eliminate the Person
to person ear to ear contact with all but the most important
customers. Then Bill gates later explains that Dell tells him the
"important customers " are huge conglomerates that can purchase
hundreds of laptops at a time. I am sure you can put two and two
together and see where that puts customers like you and me. These
customers, the average consumer is the one Dell wants to eliminate
personal contact with. They designed the website supposedly with
enough information that hopefully you won't have to call them. This
is no joke nor is it exaggerated. Pick up a copy of the book
Business at the speed of thought, by Bill gates and learn just
how important you are to him. Of course when we speak of DELL we are
also speaking of
Alienware since DELL now owns
Alienware.
- Why then is
Alienware perceived as being "All That"? Frankly, as everyone
knows, looks sell. Lets face it,
Alienware
takes the same, exact laptop and makes it look HOT.
- To achieve the cool look that
Alienware is
noted for,
Alienware takes the laptop and strips it down, spray paints it
or modifies it in some other way and reassembles it. While this
makes the laptop look very nice, it does have some negative effects
on you and the laptop itself
- (Brief note: As a update to the
painting on
Alienware Laptops)
Alienware is
now painting les and less of the laptops. Why you ask? Well since
Alienware is
now using a less reliable laptop, we suspect it is because they
cannot afford to carry the warranty on their own for a laptop that
will fail many more times as often as a good laptop. You see as
mentioned here, when
Alienware
tears apart the laptop to paint it, they lose their warranty from
Uniwill/ECS. So ask yourself, why would you want to do anything to
lose the warranty of a laptop that will in al likelihood need to be
repaired. There is no way Dell
Alienware
wants to cover the cost of repairing these laptops out of pocket. it
would kill them because they know these laptops have a phenomenally
high failure rate. It was probably worth the risk when they were
using the Clevo base laptops but no way with Uniwill/ECS. .
- First: The paint job costs a lot of extra money. Money you pay,
for nothing other than a cool paint job. No extra benefits, no
custom look that separates you from someone else, just a laptop that
screams out "look at me I look like all those other expensive
Alienware
laptops, steal me when my owner is not around".
- Second: By choosing to strip down and paint the entire laptop,
the warranty from Clevo and Uniwill to
Alienware is
voided. This of course is bad news to the consumer. If anything ever
happens to
Alienware as a company you will not have the ability to get
Uniwill or Clevo to cover the laptop for warranted repairs. (No, we
are not in anyway saying
Alienware is
in danger of going under. We have no idea of what their financial
standing is.) As a side note, when M-Tech applies your unique custom
laptop look, we only paint the lid so disassembly is not required.
(See the brief note at the start of
this article.)
- Third: We believe you should not tear down a laptop any more
than is absolutely necessary. Every time your strip down a laptop
you stress the laptop chassis. This increases the chance that a
mistake will happen in reassembly. If it isn't broke, don't fix it!
Especially if the laptop is a Uniwill based machine or now the low
quality Arima based machine DELL has insisted on adding to the
Alienware
lineup.. They just are not built well enough (in our opinion) to
withstand this abuse.
- Fourth: All this modifications add weeks to the time it takes
you to get your laptop from
Alienware and
now that DELL owns
Alienware you
also get the benefit of talking to someone in India rather than were
you live.
- You do the math. Is this the laptop you want to pay twice the
price for? Essentially the same story holds true for Voodoo laptops
and Hypersonic laptops as well.
- Product news update July 15, 2008,
Every time we re-read this article we see just how fast our laptop
product line upgrades itself. Since the last time we updated this
article M-Tech has turned the mobile technology world on its ear. We
are now launching the first laptops to use the new Intel 25 watt
Montevina CPU's. This means less power consumption, longer battery
life and less heat. M-Tech Laptops did not stop there though. While
we were at it we also are the first to use DDR3 in the system RAM.
You may recall seeing everyone else using it in the video RAM.
M-Tech brings this RAM forward to use in the laptops themselves.
DDR3 means your laptops bus speed just got up to 4 x faster than
fastest Alienware's laptop ever built. Was this enough for
M-Tech? No, we also are introducing the New NVIDIA 280M GT with
1024MB of RAM. That's right! a video card with 1024MB of video RAM.
We think it is more RAM than you could ever need, but what the heck!
Who ever said M-Tech owners were not power freaks. So lets sum up
the latest news that just proves M-Tech Laptops stomps the living
daylights out of
Alienware Computers.
- Monetvina CPU 25 Watts
- DDR3 1333MHz RAM
- NVidia 280M GTX with 1024MB VRAM or Dual
280Ms with 2048MB of Video RAM
- and a whole host of smaller upgrade
features. Call or email M-Tech today to get help in choosing the
correct model for you. If you call any other laptop company (Alienware
included) they won't care what the right laptop is for you, they
will just try to sell you the most you will spend. M-Tech won't ever
do that. Thousands of M-tech owners know this to be true. Take the
challenge, call us up and try to get us to sell you the most
expensive laptop we own. You will be shocked to discover we will try
to talk you out of that if we do not feel it is in your best
interests. You won't get hat special treatment from
Alienware,
Voodoo or anybody else. Only M-Tech guarantees this treatment.
- Instead of paying twice the price for a laptop of questionable
quality, try looking at the
D9F
MTECH D900C,
MTECH M9800 and the
MTECH M5700 these three laptops easily match and outperform the
Alienware
laptops and cost you half the price. In fact the newest laptop that
M-TECH is just now offering is the MTECH D900C. This laptop easily
outperforms all other laptops and most desktops made today. If you
want the worlds fastest laptop choose the MTECH D900 Series. The
D900 series is the same as the
Alienware
but with far better quality prices and a significantly shorter
delivery time. In fact if you want a AMD based laptop and call the
Midwest regional office at AMD, they refer you to M-Tech Laptops.
David Makin of AMD and ATI (he also writes for Toms hardware), says
that he M-Tech laptop "is the only game in town".
- If you prefer a 18" laptop with SLI video then please review the
MTECH M9800. In the past
PC Magazine said the MTECH 870P (now retired) was the
fastest laptop they have tested to date. It beat all other laptops,
it even beat all the AMD 64 laptops. If that 870P was tested against
today's M9800, M5700 or the
D9F, the D900 series they would cleanly beat the 870P on
performance. That is how fast the current lineup of laptop is with
M-Tech. They beat the fastest laptop in the world hands down!
(Revised 1/3/2007)
- To sum it up, if the
Alienware or
Voodoo or Widow PC, looks like an M-Tech with a great paint job,
then the laptop is a very good base model and one you would be happy
with it. If it does not look like ours, it is a Uniwill and you will
have to take your chances. Just make sure that you have the best and
fastest components within it and not just the base machine barely
filed out with inadequate technology. Remember, the perception that
Alienware or
Voodoo or any other high priced laptop is better, is only that, a
perception perpetrated by very good marketing. In fact we would go
as far as to say that laptop owners would be thrilled if the laptops
Alienware
sold were as good as Alienware's advertising and marketing is.
However the fact is they use, at best, the same laptop as other
quality vendors and at worst an inferior product made to look
beautiful through clever artwork. This can make the laptop look far
better than it performs. Do you really want to spend all that
extra money for nothing more than very good advertising?
- Here is but one of many comments from a prior
Alienware
owner.
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Words just can't describe
this machine it is absolutely the best notebook or desktop I have
ever
come across and for the price can't beat it. the months of web
searching and research was absolutely worth it. forget
Alienware,
voodoo, sager, hypersonic all of these cannot give you what you get
in terms of quality product and price and features, MTECH machines
have separated themselves from everyone else by leaps and bounds.
Thanks again,
Philly (MTECH D900T)
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"Anyone can pick a top gaming notebook and say
its the fastest in the world. However, you have to prove
it or back it up....the real wildcard entry is M-TECH.
They have a philosophy of working with and using
cutting-edge technology and firms to produce some
superior gaming machines."
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- Year 2003
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gives M-TECH a
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M-Tech is rated "Top 5 Laptop Computer Systems"
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Laptop
Magazine views M-Tech as one of their favorite Tier Two
laptop Vendors
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- Year 2009
 reviews
and rates M-Tech Laptops as the
"World's
Best Laptop"
saying
M-Tech
"boasts of such a high configuration that can
put even Alienware's to shame"
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Are you starting to notice
a trend. M-Tech is slowly but surely growing into a
company that makes the best laptop computers money can
buy. No amount of advertsing can do that. Only a true
commitment to quality and our customers.
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