Open box excellent should be able to ship within 250 miles and pickup for good and fair as well. Check to see if it's at a store close enough to you. 👍🏻
edit: Make sure if you do pickup for good or fair condition that you evaluate it and check for all accessories.
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Open box excellent should be able to ship within 250 miles and pickup for good and fair as well. Check to see if it's at a store close enough to you. 👍🏻
edit: Make sure if you do pickup for good or fair condition that you evaluate it and check for all accessories.
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Can't even find the little section that usually talks about open box variants.
on mobile its right under the price and finance options -> "Get it for less Ways to save on this item". I have genuinely no idea how to do it on desktop anymore, just tried.
on mobile its right under the price and finance options -> "Get it for less Ways to save on this item". I have genuinely no idea how to do it on desktop anymore, just tried.
Nothing within 250 miles of me.
Found it, thank you. None near me either, maxes out at "good" anyway.
I regularly check open box on BB and this alienware is on massive markdown at least couple times a week. Must be getting shittons of returns
I did get one in supposedly excellent condition, but it came in an ordinary box with one layer of bubble wrap only. In the less than 24 hours I had it, the battery didn't charge at all, bsod, and after doing a fresh windows install , the bsod seemed to go away. I didn't want to deal with any other issue that may come up, so I returned it
I just got one for $1515 excellent. Upon arrival for pickup, it had a scratch on the screen(minimal and only visible on black screen but still a defect nonetheless) , no charging accessories/cable, no original box. In a random box.
I got the store manager to mark it down to "fair" condition (but i waited like an hour) and the price adjusted to $1352 or something. How are you getting $1200? Thats even better!
well anyways, I got an OEM charger from Dell for $185 - 15% with card so $177w/tax.
Dell is totally ripping off for their chargers, but also note that the original charging cable and brick are twice the size as the current one from Dell. So, while they screw you up the ass in the price they do at least give you a smaller more realistic charging cable/brick if you buy the new one.
Now with all that is said, I will have spent like $1600 with tax included for the laptop and a new OEM charger. IF it passes my testing I will keep it of course for a desktop replacement. 4080 laptop is comparable to a 4070 desktop performance.
At $1600 your still not gonna find a 4080 laptop at this price point. Comes with 32gb ram and high hertz monitor screen, although low 300 nits only. I heard the speakers suck so not going to care about them. Has 3 NVME slots but note that 1 is 2230 and only supports up to 500gb nvme. The other 2280 slots support up to 4-8tb nvme's.
The only downsides are if best buy tries to scam you and claim excellent condition like with me, but had 3 issues that should have been fair condition. Make sure you inspect in-store. The other issues people are having could be due to the usual laptop bloatware. My goal is to wipe the drive and install Ghelper. Typically laptop software is bloatware from the manufacturers. Ghelper is a minimal program and comes with important features but not as many as the original bloatware. Ghelper does provide the important stuff though like fan curve, cpu wattage and mux switching options.
Lastly the cooling on any laptop is going to be bad out of the box. You have to set a temp limit, wattage limit and curve optimizer to negative values.
If all my settings run this laptop well and keep it cool temps, I will keep it. If not then I will surely be glad to return this motha fockin dell ripoff $185 charger.
Also this is pretty heavy for a laptop, a true desktop replacement. Note that you will not have to upgrade anything unless you want more nvme drives or 64gb ram instead of 32gb. Otherwise everything is good. I will just be putting my desktop drives in it and keep the 32gb.
I will be able to test it when the charger comes in the mail from dell. I will try to update my review afterwards.
Also, here is a spec sheet that I found in another thread for this laptop:
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Nothing within 250 miles of me.
Nothing within 250 miles of me.
I got the store manager to mark it down to "fair" condition (but i waited like an hour) and the price adjusted to $1352 or something. How are you getting $1200? Thats even better!
well anyways, I got an OEM charger from Dell for $185 - 15% with card so $177w/tax.
Dell is totally ripping off for their chargers, but also note that the original charging cable and brick are twice the size as the current one from Dell. So, while they screw you up the ass in the price they do at least give you a smaller more realistic charging cable/brick if you buy the new one.
The Dell part numbers: Manufacturer part W6RK4 | Dell part 492-BDMB | Order Code 492-bdmb
Link to part:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/d...92-bdmb/ac
Now with all that is said, I will have spent like $1600 with tax included for the laptop and a new OEM charger. IF it passes my testing I will keep it of course for a desktop replacement. 4080 laptop is comparable to a 4070 desktop performance.
At $1600 your still not gonna find a 4080 laptop at this price point. Comes with 32gb ram and high hertz monitor screen, although low 300 nits only. I heard the speakers suck so not going to care about them. Has 3 NVME slots but note that 1 is 2230 and only supports up to 500gb nvme. The other 2280 slots support up to 4-8tb nvme's.
The only downsides are if best buy tries to scam you and claim excellent condition like with me, but had 3 issues that should have been fair condition. Make sure you inspect in-store. The other issues people are having could be due to the usual laptop bloatware. My goal is to wipe the drive and install Ghelper. Typically laptop software is bloatware from the manufacturers. Ghelper is a minimal program and comes with important features but not as many as the original bloatware. Ghelper does provide the important stuff though like fan curve, cpu wattage and mux switching options.
Lastly the cooling on any laptop is going to be bad out of the box. You have to set a temp limit, wattage limit and curve optimizer to negative values.
If all my settings run this laptop well and keep it cool temps, I will keep it. If not then I will surely be glad to return this motha fockin dell ripoff $185 charger.
Also this is pretty heavy for a laptop, a true desktop replacement. Note that you will not have to upgrade anything unless you want more nvme drives or 64gb ram instead of 32gb. Otherwise everything is good. I will just be putting my desktop drives in it and keep the 32gb.
I will be able to test it when the charger comes in the mail from dell. I will try to update my review afterwards.
Also, here is a spec sheet that I found in another thread for this laptop:
https://dl.dell.com/content/manual50486663-alienware-m16-r1-amd-setup-and-specifications.pdf?languag... [dell.com]
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