I'm a High School Senior and will be going to college in the fall. I need a laptop that will be reliable, but also good for gaming. Also, it has been a dream of mine for several years to be the proud owner of an alienware computer. I've recently read some horror storries about the hardware on the m17x, however. I was just wondering if these are isolated events, or if these were common problems among m17 owners.Can anyone please tell me, or recomend another good laptop?

Thanks to everyone

-Delta.

P.S. Please don't recomend a MAC, as my father, who worked for EDS for many years would disown me.