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here in the alienware suite or restaurant or whatever this is it
doesn't matter the point is this is the star of the show this is the
alienware 55 OLED monitor technology
preview don't worry it's going to have a much cooler name when it comes out i
promise you because nothing could be less cool than that but the product
itself is something that we have been wanting so much
ever since we first saw OLED technology
perfect blacks fast pixel response times
vibrant colors nothing else is quite
like it today the fact that you don't have to deal with uh zone backlighting
in order to achieve the kinds of crazy contrast ratios that these things do
because every individual pixel emits its own light absolutely incredible
technology except for one critical like
game-breaking flaw dell actually released an OLED monitor it was either
last year or the year before can't remember they wouldn't seed it to me
because they didn't want me to review it as far as i can tell anyway i just
bought it and then it broke in shipping and by the time i could try to get a
replacement it was discontinued i was like damn it
i just wanted to get my hands on this thing so apparently they learned their
lesson about going at this too early but this time they're taking a more
conservative approach so they'll only tell us a little bit about this it's
using a 4k panel it's 55 inches it's
going to run at 120 hertz so
that gives us some sort of guesses as to who their supplier is lg
and what's really cool is we were hanging out with lg display yesterday
and they were actually showing us a really impressive demo on what they've
been able to do with OLED pixel response times over the last year so we could
expect because remember lg display is not the same company as lg electronics
so we could expect that lg displays hard work to make OLED better for gaming
could finally amount to a tv okay they're calling it a monitor but
whatever to a tv gaming experience that's as low latency as you would want
it to be now there's a lot of stuff they legitimately
don't know about this yet whether it's going to be compatible with precinct
whether it's going to be compatible with g-sync they do know that they're
targeting some kind of variable refresh rate gaming technology but there are a
ton of things up in the air they know that it'll run 120 hertz over
displayport but hey HDMI 2.1 is upon us
maybe it's going to end up with a 2.1 compatible scaler and we could run 4k
120 hertz over HDMI who knows the point is they're taking their time we're not
expecting this anytime in the next six months because they're doing some
long-term testing on burn-in prevention
to make sure they don't have a repeat of last time so one thing that we do know
they're doing is they're not going to crank the brightness the same way that
they did on the original m13 OLED gaming laptop that thing was freaking cool but
of course any OLED is eventually going
to burn in it's just due to the nature of the organic
light emitting diode it degrades so they're doing their best to figure out
what exactly it is they can do OLED technology has also gotten more
resilient over time and i for one am
incredibly excited to see where we're going with this
so i think we're kind of in the way but you know whatever uh yeah do you mind
hey thanks
can you hold that for me for a sec thank you just one moment
so here from the back we can get a better look at the cable management system that they've built into the
monitor so they've got all the inputs over there including a usb hub they've
got power over here the whole thing comes down in a nice tidy little ponytail uh there's no word on pricing
whatsoever but yeah i mean hey whatever
the price is people are gonna buy this thing because this is gonna be one
unreal gaming experience and i am pretty excited
and in other OLED gaming news we've got the alienware m15 OLED display and did i
just unplug it bloody hell nope it's fine it's all good yay now just like
pretty much every other gaming laptop that we've seen here at the show they
have upgraded their lineup with rtx graphics so this particular one is going
to be available with an rtx 2060 or 2070 max q but unlike everything else we've
seen it is going to be equipped with a yes my friends they still haven't
learned their lesson from the alienware 13 r3 and OLED panel now i shouldn't say
haven't learned their lesson because they say they did and they've been hard
at work making sure that this thing isn't going to be a problem but yes my
friends it's coming back OLED gaming and
in a bigger chassis with a bigger screen which was basically the only issue that
we had with the old alienware 13 was we just wanted a screen that was a touch
bigger it's still shockingly thin considering the gaming power on tap and
not just gaming power this is equipped with a core i9 8950 hk which assuming
that it doesn't thermal throttle to hell and back no guarantees we'll have to
wait for the full review means that you've got six cores 12 threads of
pretty impressive power again in a pretty slim design
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so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our ces 2019 content we will see
you at the next booth