Re: Recent Pick Ups
02/17/12 10:55 pm | #1658
I got my Alienware Aurora R3 desktop in today!
Thing is freaking awesome! It has all these neat color settings you can customize on your keyboard and the tower itself. Keyboard has 2 spots to choose colors on and the System has 4 areas to change color on. Real Cool.
The System itself performs millions better than my previous Dell XPS 200 Slim tower. That thing seems like a thing from the early 90s compared to this.
So in comparison, I do a lot of photo editing as I do photography as a hobby. I use Adobe Photoshop CS5, and on the old setup, it would take about 2 minutes to even open the program. This computer, instantly opens, I would say maybe a 2 second wait time. Leaps and bounds better. Processing images, its the same story, new computer destroys the old setup.
Gaming wise, well the old system could run Call of Duty 2 perfectly, lol. Great game and all, but it could not run even semi recent titles, such as Batman AA, Bioshock 2, Street Fighter 4, Age of Empires, etc. It just could now do it. This computer, runs all of those titles at max settings, with no hiccups whatsoever.
All in all, I am really impressed with this computer, and even though I know it is not the best Alienware, it certainly does what I need it to do.