Indeed, I was smitten by the looks of the Lunar Light version of my R9 and noticed the price increase over the basic black.  If I recall correctly it was about 50 bucks more, which is quite expensive for ALIENWARE to light up on the side of a case, but I didn't have the time or energy to build a computer from scratch and since I usually use them for at least 10 years I decided to splurge and get as close to what I wanted as I could.

Eight months later, after upgrading to 64 Gb of RAM and installing a 1500 watt Platinum efficiency power supply, I have just the Alienware Aurora R9 I wanted. 

If you're talented you can customize anything, but if you mean a simple swap I don't think so; it depends on whether or not the basic black allows for light to pass through the ALIENWARE logo on the side or if it is solid.

Some other people have expressed interest in other post on this site concerning replacing their R11 front pieces so that they have all the LED lighting that is available on the Lunar Light package...I think they are being held up at this point because Dell might not have enough spare parts to be selling them as stand alone.

Can you add the additional lights on the dark side chassis?

The ram thing is annoying cause it looks identical

i am replacing all of it but it is cheeky

I didn’t realise the lunar light had more lights just that it was more expensive. My previous was a lunar light and I thought I’d go for dark this time. Not really bothered to be honest as the sides aren’t visible on mg setup but I still think they should make it very clear that you lose lights as it just implies it’s a colour thing

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 I still think they should make it very clear that you lose lights as it just implies it’s a colour thing

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Indeed, this is the same Dell/Alienware that doesn't tell you that the Kingston HyperX RAM they install is proprietary and isn't the same as the Kingston HyperX RAM you buy from other retailers.

The consumer really has to do his/her homework. 

I agree, I have never had a problem with Kingston, but I went with Crucial Ballistix since it seemed odd to buy more Kingston and then have two OEM modules sitting in a drawer.

Link to my adventure in upgrading Alienware RAM...https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R9-a-pain-free-upgrade-nice-for-a-change/m-p/7746432#M35997https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R9-a-pain-free-upgrade-nice-for-a-change/m-p/7746432#M35997 

Am not bothered about the back lights but I do like the front inner ones, these aren’t on the black chassis. Am definitely cancelling and re-ordering. I know am being picky now but I also wanted to get an external Blu-ray DVD player I have a huge collection of Blu-ray movies, happens to be they don’t do any blu ray players, I could get one from another supplier but would’ve been a bonus just to get everything from dell.

The computer is coming tomorrow and I was excited. I’m sure it’ll be fine, it’s only a few lights and my keyboard has individually controllable lights so that’ll be fine I’m sure

to be fair, I never changed the colours on the lunar light version anyway so probably won’t notice it. Hope so!

I didnt realise it was missing the front inner lights too. That’s really not so good, they really should have made it more obvious

What lights does the black have?