Do you own an alienware? Because I have a 2 year old gateway laptop that if I were to go out and buy a brand new laptop with the same specs as this it would still cost just as much as I bought this for two years ago. Intel Core2Duo t5200, 2gb ram, 500gb hdd, intel x3100, 15.4" glossy widescreen, 4x usb, expresscard, gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g/n, card reader, dual layer dvd burner w/labelflash, blue leds all around. put about $100 in for upgrades (wifi and hdd)
that ailenware you posted is almost the same specs as mine, just has a tad bit faster cpu, better graphics, and 1/4 the ram I have lol.
Paid 549 brand new, basically same laptop, new, still 549 LOL. 2 years ago, I was ahead of the laptop curve apparently (only diff is the cpu is 1.6ghz on this, and 2.0 on that one)