the first OLED gaming display is here
OLED I mean I've been waiting for something to bring CRT like response
time back to the PC since Canon crushed
my dreams back in 2010 by officially discontinuing development of their s
technology well OLED has that potential
but so far the best OLED displays are LG
TVs which have notoriously terrible processing leg so
the pixels can be as fast as you please but gaming still feels like telling your
friend in the Next Room which buttons to press for you which okay sorry I digress
okay so the display I'm talking about OLED gaming display it's connected to a
laptop the alien wear 13 R3 now with a
13-in OLED display in case you hadn't
picked up on that before let's take her for a
spin
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fine a balance between Tastefully
aggressive looking and Gody and tacky as
any gaming PC with an alien theme possibly could and and rocks a pretty
strong I/O configuration with USB type-c and type a super speed ports on the
right an additional type A and dedicated
headphone and mic ports on the left and gigabit killer Ethernet mini display
port HDMI 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 Alien wear's
proprietary external GPU dock connector and Power in at the back flanked by some
large rear heat sinks that vent hot air down back and up for optimal cool
immediately noticeable are both its size
and weight considering the Alienware
13's 13in screen size so the numbers
listed on Dell site are meaningless the depth is based on the edge even though
the center is a full centimeter more I can't for the life of me figure out
where they measured the 23.3 mm height and the width is off by a whopping six
CM oops but anyway when I measured it
myself it worked out to about 2 L of
internal volume so for comparison the Razer Blade 14 with quite similar specs
comes in at less than 3/4 of that while weighing half a kilogram less so how can
Dell justify it well easy upgradeability
is one good way making our way to the bottom these five normal Philips head
screws are all that stand between you and the m.2 slots that you can use to
upgrader ad ssds and RAM slots that you can use to install up to 32 gigs of ddr4
RAM just like that Inspire and value gaming machine that we checked out here
unlike that one however the Alienware 13 is packing some serious heat under the
plastic cover that protects all the stuff that you shouldn't be tooling
around with this tricked out config got a COR i7 6700hq quad core with
hyperthreading 16 gigs of RAM a 512 gig
nbme SSD and a VR capable GTX 1060 with
6 gigs of vram that ended up packing more of a punch than I expected more on
that later first let's flip this puppy over and talk about the important stuff
that you're going to see and touch every time you use the machine the RGB
lighting there are nine lighting zones
including this is the first time I've seen this one an RGB trackpad which
admittedly actually looks really cool too bad its functionality could be
improved it does track accurately and feels very responsive to the touch but I
found it a bit small and I found the chin of the laptop combined with the
depth of the clicky buttons below made them a little bit awkward to use
fortunately the keyboard is mostly good news typing experience- wise it's not
the best that I've used but it's far from the worst the layout is very good
with full-sized arrow keys and the long travel distance and reassuring tactile
feel were great for gaming on top of that for a small device it feels
surprisingly not cramped maybe because
Dell ended up stashing the speakers on the side of the unit which I was all
geared up to complain about until they totally kicked my ass with solid output
volume which is necessary when using speakers on a gaming laptop fans and
surprisingly lifelike 3D positional audio they ended up being a highlight of
this machine along along with Windows hello presence detection which by the
way is still freaking amazing but not as
amazing as the display boy is it
beautiful so my config has the optional 2560 x440 OLED touchscreen monitor that
boasts perfect black levels shockingly vibrant colors and some other advantages
that were like a breath of fresh air for
a gamer who grew up on old school CRT monitors look
at the difference in Mouse movement to screen movement response time here the
blade 14 at about 40 milliseconds at 60
HZ is far from the worst I've seen But the Alienware 13 is right down around 25
milliseconds a full screen refresh faster which only accounts for faster
processing time the pixel response times contribute equally to the perceived
Clarity and responsiveness of the display because they keep the image looking
crisp even during fast camera pans it is
awesome which doesn't mean though that it's perfect It suffers from Best Buy TV
syndrome a little bit in that color saturation is off the hook but with a
little bit of tuning of in-game gamma controls I think you'll find that most
of the Shadow crushing effects can be countered for an unreal if a little
small gaming EXP experience let's talk performance and
usability now the Alienware 13 scores pretty well here in spite of the beef do
battery off-all life is unexceptional at
about 2 hours in change in PC Mark's conventional work test and one hour of
continuous Crisis 3 gaming but it runs
fanless under very light loads stays
much quieter than the blade 14 under gaming loads maintains reasonable
surface temperatures on both top and bottom while gaming and manages to do
all of that while performing as well as the blade
14 they both end up falling behind a
desktop GTX 1060 probably due to power
delivery limitations but remember guys that's to be expected especially on 1
and 1/2 to 2 L machines which leads us then to the
obvious conclusion the Alienware 13 is
the hands down winner right well maybe not
who made a better computer personally I
still prefer razer's approach but while
I'm not ready to switch to the MacBook Pro fulltime I also don't really gain
that much anymore which means that I'm willing to make some compromises there
for reduced weight and a larger display
with that said the Alienware 13 is a better pure gaming machine in almost
every way the webcam kind of sucks but the display is better the keyboard is
better I mean the list goes on iO cooling noise I mean heck even alien
wear's external GPU enclosure is cheaper
if you want to upgrade your video card down the road just like the blade don't
expect any of that to come cheap because this is a serious toy for serious
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