Almost every site or forum I visit to research Alienware computers say they are junk and a waste of money. They never really give any reasons and just say to build your own instead. I priced the Alienware Aurora (not ALX) components at newegg.com and you might save about $50-100 building it yourself. I'm beginning to think that there are a bunch of people just brand bashing without giving any real reasons besides 'they suck'. I want a prebuilt gaming computer with lots of room for future upgrades, warranty, support and Alienware Aurora seems to fit that quite nicely. Any thoughts would be appreciated, except 'they suck. I'm sorry, I posted this first in the laptop/notebook section by accident.