last year we reviewed the Alienware 13 R3 and thought that it was a fantastic
little machine but it has a bigger
batter more bloated brother that's
coming to take all your lunch money but
in a world that is trending towards thinner and lighter can bigger be better
let's find out
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the video description the first thing you'll
notice about the Alienware 15 is wow
this is oh wow holy crap this thing is
heavy coming in at almost 50% heavier
than the 13-in model I think it's fair
to say most people wouldn't want to
carry it around in a backpack every day
which actually got us thinking both are
very similar and there's less than a $100 difference between the two that we
have so then which one would we rather
have so what started as a standalone review morphed into also a compar
comparison so the alien wear 15 straddles the line between tasteful
industrial design and over-the-top Elite
gamer I think the RGB lights on the sides of the frame kind of push it
overboard but those can be disabled through alienware's alien effect
software and the beauty of this thing is more than Skin Deep on a desk or in your
bag the laptop has a solid premium feel
that comes from its magnesium and reinforced steel chassis the quality
feeling Plastics of the outer shell especially around the keyboard and
trackpad and the overbuilt screen hinge
it really doesn't seem like Dell cut any Corners in the construction of these
machines spec-wise the Alienware 15 is
available in everything from low-end configs that cost more than the Dell
Inspiron gaming for no tangible performance Improvement all the way up
to our Beast that Sports a GTX 1070 for
graphics a quad core core i7 and 16 gigs
of ddr4 RAM yielding performance that
was consistently breaking through the 60fps barrier and often cracking three
digits in AAA titles and all of this is
with no worries about thermal issues the
CPU settled in at a somewhat toasty 87
de in our synthetic tests and the GPU landed at a breezy 74° C neither of them
were in danger of overheating or throttling at any time and this is
unusual for a laptop we have no complaints about Acoustics either the
cooling fans are nearly silent while the
speakers pack a really nice punch Dell
has gotten serious about audio on their devices lately but does the scen live up
to the rest of the specs I mean sure the
horizontal viewing angles and brightness are good the Windows hello enabled
webcam is a nice touch but compared to
the OLED display on the Alienware
13 colors look flat there's a lack of
depth to the blacks and adding insult to
injury it isn't even available with
touch support meaning that you might be fooled into thinking that it's outright
Terrible by comparison until you move the cursor running at 120 HZ with g-sync
this thing is buttery smooth and once you try High refresh rate gaming you'll
be hooked going back to the 60 HZ on the 13 feels like putting on skate shoes for
a basketball game but if the higher refresh rate is worth it depends heavily
on your use case for csgo or OverWatch
watch sure but if you're a filthy casual
like me playing sightseeing games like rise of the Tomb Raider or Witcher 3 the
OLED panel along with its crispy higher
resolution compared to all but the top tier 15-in model not to mention it's
better out of the box calibration and 95% coverage of the Adobe RGB color
space contributes more to the experience
both gaming and otherwise
the keyboard and trackpad on the Alienware 15 other than some macro keys
are identical to the 13 It's kind of
weird when you think about it considering how much more space we have
I mean come on Dell this move feels a little bit like you had uh that
leftovers and you needed some laptops to put them on how about a number pad maybe
here and a much larger trackpad let's say I don't know uh here I mean to be
clear I'm not saying that this reuse is a terrible thing the RGB trackpad looks
dank KF and behaved well in our testing
outside of a couple glitches with two finger scrolling and as for the keyboard
the backlit keys still have a nice long
action to them that avoids being mushy
gaming was a pleasure and getting up to full speed and accuracy while typing was
no problem as long as that accuracy is
near perfect back space and actually the indent on the s key instead of the W
where everybody else puts it are both small skid marks on what is otherwise a
really solid keyboard now let's say you were to save some costs up front how
easy is it to upgrade this thing down the road well after removing these seven
screws from the bottom panel I was pleasantly surprised although 1 m.2 and
the hard drive bay are occupied there are actually two more m.2 slots making
it super simple to upgrade youred CD storage RAM is easily accessed and the
battery which held up about like you'd
expect for something so powerful so not amazing is a quick swap making the
Alienware 15 about as simple to upgrade
as a laptop can be so bottom line then
both are fantastic notebooks and if you have the money either of them will
probably make you happy but you came here for a winner and for once we're
actually going to give you one if you plan on gaming for hours every day the
Alienware 15 is a pretty easy Choice
with more power and the 120 HZ display option this thing is wicked to game on
but for anything other than gaming the better portability and the utterly
unique and amazing screen of the
Alienware 13 helped it take home the
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