3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3230M (3MB Cache, up to 3.2 GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) edit OPERATING SYSTEM Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit edit MEMORY 8GB (2 X 4GB) Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz edit HARD DRIVE 500GB 7,200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s edit VIDEO CARD 1 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M with Optimus™ edit LCD PANEL 14.0" High Def (720p/1366x768) with WLED backlight edit WIRELESS CARDS Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 With Bluetooth 4.0 edit INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE Slot Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW)sorry that it says edit in places, I copied it off the alienware website and i couldn't get rid of them
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I don't know if that thing would run a shaders mod, but it should be able to handle a 128x or 256x texture pack at 60fps(+).
Alienware is not a great brand though - the quality of their products is high, but they usually charge far too much for what you're getting. Brand power and whatnot.
Not sure if the keys are backlit, but its GPU is way better than the gtx 650m (better than even the 660m). Reaches the same CPU clock speed with turbo, same base clock speed too...
Thanks for all the help guys, I'm looking through those links now.
These laptops are windows 8, I thought that was bad? anything else?
Who told you Windows 8 is bad? It is just Windows 7 with a touchscreen wrapper. Is Windows 7 bad too? Poeple in general are idiots. Anything they don't understand is bad, anything they have heard about they feel they are pros at, and most of the people here appear to have obtained their knowledge from sources that know as little about these things as they do.
DON'T BUY A LAPTOP FOR GAMING. Best advice possible.
Even if you do have a high performance laptop, the price point is not reasonable and laptops are not designed to be gaming systems no matter how they are marketed.
And optifine...worthless. Running more programs in an attempt to increase performance of another program is counterproductive. Build the right computer and you solve these problems the right way.
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But yes, it'll run fine, just...value can be better knowing Alienware.
Alienware is not a great brand though - the quality of their products is high, but they usually charge far too much for what you're getting. Brand power and whatnot.
For laptops, I always recommend Macs. Their laptops are the best in my opinion. But of course, you can't play any games on em at all.
Alienware has trouble with heating (though most gaming laptops do, CPU + GPU generates a lot of heat). And they're overpriced.
This laptop should run Minecraft quite well if you put in an i5 + 650M (and I would recommend upgrading the RAM to 6-8 GB). And for only $775!
DO NOT buy alienware computers unless you like wasting money. There is nothing special about alienware. They are dell computers with fancy cosmetics.
Also...what is it with people trying to buy laptops as gaming machines?
Yeah, $1200 for what you were going to buy is an outrageous and almost stealing kind of value.
Might I recommend this (after quick searching, still a better value though over Alienware):
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16834152369
Or if you want the same thing, but in a smaller size, this could be great (screen is smaller than the one above)
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16834152370
Macs are also garbage. High price for the same stuff you get in a Windows PC at half the cost with more functionality.
Why comment as if you know something if you are not sure?
http://ncix.com/prod...ar&promoid=1424
Not sure if the keys are backlit, but its GPU is way better than the gtx 650m (better than even the 660m). Reaches the same CPU clock speed with turbo, same base clock speed too...
Who told you Windows 8 is bad? It is just Windows 7 with a touchscreen wrapper. Is Windows 7 bad too? Poeple in general are idiots. Anything they don't understand is bad, anything they have heard about they feel they are pros at, and most of the people here appear to have obtained their knowledge from sources that know as little about these things as they do.
DON'T BUY A LAPTOP FOR GAMING. Best advice possible.
Take your lies elsewhere.
Even if you do have a high performance laptop, the price point is not reasonable and laptops are not designed to be gaming systems no matter how they are marketed.
And optifine...worthless. Running more programs in an attempt to increase performance of another program is counterproductive. Build the right computer and you solve these problems the right way.