What was the appeal?
>>103250844pretty cool
>>103250844you'd understand if you had more sports cars ingrained in your brain
Right when PC gaming got a little more mainstream and was a lot more public, Alienware and many SI’s at the time tailored their marketing to being as visible as possible to the masses, offering the premium pc gaming experience but without the diy hobbyist aspect of it. They made it accessible to everyone as a retail product. Before that era, not Alienware as a brand but specifically the time you saw those types of alienwares, if you wanted a gaming pc built for you, you usually had to deal with a salesperson or a pc store tech.
>>103250844They look fun! Art deco retro-futurism car-design kitsch poured with mtn dew. Wish I had one.
>>103250844mid 2000's aesthetics
>>103250844It was fun.
>>103250844I loved how this specific case looked
couldn't bear the 'ware huh?
remember the "pc master race" shit?back when people took that seriously instead of fed/psyop stuff?
>>103250844cars
>>103250844ayy lmao
>>103250844
It looks cool. Retard. that's a stupid question
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>>103250919Beat me to it kek
>>103253008That makes two of us, fren.
>>103250844they were cheap
>>103250844pre-built with high specs, including a legit GPU. No big companies were doing that at the time. You'd build one or get someone (or a small shop) to build you one locallythat was it, really. the unique aesthetic was just a status thing because they were expensive. Most people didn't actually think the aesthetics were good on their own
>>103253505Include me on that too, like-minded brothers.Edit: Hehe, thanks for the gold, kind stranger!Edit 2: Wow, more gold... That makes at least 5 of us...Edit 3: I didn't expect this post to blow up so much, thanks everyone who upvoted!
>>103250844They just looked so cool and funand before Dell bought them, they were actually really good fully specced top tier, you literally could not find their specs in any other prebuilts Then Along came Dell and it all went to shit
>>103250844it's like SGI gaud but aliens insteadand affordable
>>103253505Same here fren
>>103250844Man I had one of those light green ones for years. Loved that little guy.
>>103250844Killed the custom built market at the time. Only the best priced companies survived that slaughter. Before dell bought them Alienware had decent quality parts, back then alot of parts even for a diy build where shoddy at best but at least it was somewhat affordable.
>>103253776There is an additional thing.Every pre-built PC had the problem that you weren't allowed to open the case or god forbid, change anything in the hardware configuration, else your warranty would immediately expire.Alienware was the first company that allowed you to open the case and change any hardware that had a bright green frame or sticker. So if you wanted an upgradeable pre-built PC, Alienware was the way to go.
>>103256426I remember opening one up and every single component was glued into place
>>103250844It was cool
>>103250844PC gamers really wanted head.
