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Thanks to my dog and water – my XPS 730 finally kicked the bucket and having issues. Since I have complete care on the system (a must have by the way), they agreed to replace the system with “a like or better” model. Now since they don’t make the XPS 730 any longer it either had to be a Alienware (recently bought out by Dell) or a Studio XPS desktop. I was very worried thinking I could actually get “worse” (a lot of times they don’t go by the model, just GB, MB, or GHz). Well after waiting around 2 weeks to hear something from them I noticed a new order in my list. It was for a Alienware Aurora!!

Now compared to my XPS there are few draw backs…1) The video card is less powerful (260 vs 280), 2) the PSU is less powerful (1000w vs 875w), 3) no built-in bluetooth, and 4) the motherboard is smaller in regards to open slots. I could cancel this and get my money back from the XPS, or I can keep this system and be happy with the upgraded features of this system. Its hard choice since I need the money right now, like anyone else, but since I don’t have a desktop I most likely will keep this one.

I will follow up once I get the system with pictures, and maybe a video… 🙂

Here are the specs:

1 224-6493 Alienware Aurora Desktop
1 310-0173 Airborne Documentation, System Exchanges,Factory Install
1 313-8322 Cosmic Black, Alienware Aurora Chassis, 875W PSU
1 313-8750 AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue
1 313-8767 Dual Drives: Blu-ray Disc (BD) Combo (BD-ROM; DVD/CD Burner) and DVD-ROM
1 313-8948 Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
1 317-1886 Overclocked Intel Core i7 975 Extreme (3.6GHz, 8MB Cache)
1 317-1891 6GB Triple Channel 1067MHz DDR3
1 317-1904 Alienware High-Performance Liquid Cooling
1 317-2818 Accessory Kit, Aurora, Eng
1 320-0862 Single 1.8GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
1 320-7810 No Monitor
1 330-4769 Dell Resource DVD with Application Backup
1 330-6348 Automatic Updates:
1 330-6517 No Mouse
1 330-6518 No Keyboard
1 341-0436 300GB – SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 10k RPM, 16MB Cache HDD
1 410-0312 McAfee VirusScan Plus 15 Month Subscription (English)
1 410-1867 ADOBE READER 9.0 MULTI- LANG
1 420-6436 PC-Restore, Dim/Insp
1 420-9691 DataSafe Local BackUp 2.0 Basic
1 421-0974 CYBERLINK PDVD 8.0 ANW
1 421-0975 NERO 9, ANW
1 421-1424 Alienhead 3D
1 421-1721 Soft Contracts,Banktec Care,Alienware
1 421-2064 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
1 430-0637 1505 PCIe WLAN card with11n mini-Card & external antenna

Apple

…I owe how much? *Updated*

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Well, as everyone knows I sent back my Dell to get a Mac. Ever since I have been really happy with that decision, and really had no issues. However it appears as I over extended myself this year, and now I kind of have to sell this beauty of a machine. I will get something slightly less powerful, and not as big next time. However that won’t be for a while. Maybe I will just go with a NetBook for now and take it one day at a time.

Sad really, as I like it quite a bit, but you have to do, what you have to do… :/

EDIT: Laptop was sold on Craigs.

Downtime

Site down…

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Well, because of connection issues, my website was down from ~3:00PM EST or so. However the site is back up and seems to be working fine.

Alert Type: Site Not Available
Result: Failed
Time: October 6, 2009 14:54:38
HostName/URL: JMCKEE.NET
Monitor Name: jmckee.net
Service: http

Alert Type: Site is Available
Result: Ok
Time: October 6, 2009 19:54:59
HostName/URL: JMCKEE.NET
Monitor Name: jmckee.net
Service: http

Apple

UPDATE 3: Laptop search continues, or has it ended?

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Well, long story short. I love my new mac and its working well now. After speaking with customer service, I was told that everything would be fine and everything will work out, and well – it has…

Both Apple and Amazon were great in the return process and dealing with the issues that I had 🙂

I miss the E4300 in some ways, but you can’t get everything you want.