ALIENWARE REVIEW
ALIENWARE 17 REVIEWS
A good sign of a laptop nowadays is that it should have a high amount of specs so that you may have no interruption in the future. Nowadays gaming is common in every a PC and it is trending in laptops. A 17 inch laptop is best for gaming nowadays, we all area aware of Alienware laptops which are best designed for gaming having a roaring GPU that has huge amount of dedicated memory plus a lightning fast processor speed.
We are talking about the latest Dell Alienware 17 which is powerful than before and this time powered by an all-rounder AMD Radeon R9 GPU with a dedicated memory of 2 GB that competes twice times better than NVidia’s GTX 500 series of 4 GB.
A CLOSER LOOK
You’re looking at one beast of a mobile gaming rig here, measuring 16.3 x 11.8 x 1.8 1.9 inches (W x D x H) and weighing a hefty 9.15 pounds. TheAsus G750JX comes in at an equally wide (but thinner) 16.15 x 12.5 x 0.66 1.9 inches, but tips the scale at 10.5 pounds. Naturally, the MSI GS70 Stealth is the slimmest of the bunch, at 16.5 x 11.3 x 0.85 inches and 5.7 pounds.
Keep in mind that the MSI model lacks the Blu-ray drive found in both the Alienware and Asus units. But let’s see what Alienware manages to squeeze into such a bulky 17.3-inch laptop, compared with the slightly slimmer competition. Alienware crafts one of the most premium builds in the gaming laptop world, and offers one year of phone support — plus in-home servicing — for its machines. Asus supplies a year of 24/7 phone support, whereas MSI provides neither (though, it does throw you a 2-year warranty). The specs of the laptop are top notch and it looks like that the manufacturer tried to fit top hardware into it making it the best gaming laptop.
The machine is powered by 2.4 GHZ core i7 4th generation quad with a cache of 6 MB and Turbo boost up to 3.4 GHZ which means that there is no question when R9 GPU combines with all new i7 and your top games would lag. The storage contains either 256 GB MSATA SSD or 1 TB HDD which is an ample space to download all of your and a big room for installing games which nowadays mostly take up to 30 GB of installation. The RAM is incredibly plenty that is 16 GB of DDR3 that enables you to work smoothly without any ambiguity or interruption, like this you will not face any trouble even loading dozens of software at the startup.
Here is the list of specs the Alienware acquires
· CPU: 2.4GHz Intel Core i7–4700MQ (quad-core, 6MB cache, up to 3.4GHz with Turbo Boost)
· Graphics: AMD Radeon HD R9 M290X (4GB GDDR5 RAM); Intel HD Graphics 4600
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· RAM: 16GB DDR3L (2x 8GB at 1600MHz)
· Screen: 17.3-inch, 1920 x 1080 WLED, Anti-Glare Display
· Storage: 256GB mSATA SSD; 1TB HDD at 5400 rpm
· Optical drive: Slot-loading, Blu-ray reader (9.5mm, dual layer)
· Ports: 4 USB 3.0 ports (one with PowerShare), HDMI 1.4 (1.3 input), RJ-45 Ethernet, mini-Display Port, 2 ⅛-inch audio out ports (one compatible with inline mic headset), ⅛-inch line-in Microphone port (available for 5.1 analog audio output), Kensington security lock slot
· Connectivity: Broadcom 4352 802.11ac Wi-Fi; Bluetooth 4.0
· Camera: FHD, 2-MP webcam
· Weight: 9.15 pounds
· Size: 16.3 x 11.8 x 1.8 1.9 inches (W x D x H)
On whole the laptop is worth the watch delivering extreme performance and nonetheless lighter in weight despite of heavy hardware fitted into it. One drawback is that it is quite expensive as high as 350 to 400 dollars which may disappoint many users as not everyone affords this kind of machine, also when running on Windows it was found that switching between R9 GPU and Intel was hectic because sometimes while playing games, the GPU failed to switch which may be a problem initially but we hope that the manufacturer resolves this bug fix with latest updates allowing the user to unlock its true power.
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