WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:08.480 for years alien wear's laptops have been absolutely insane out of this world 00:00:05.319 --> 00:00:10.920 machines that are insanely fast that you 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:14.960 maybe don't actually want cuz using them in real life kind of sucked well 00:00:13.719 --> 00:00:21.039 hopefully they're going to change that here today cuz we have the new M16 R2 00:00:18.119 --> 00:00:25.920 that promises to be kind of practical but first let's have a look at the power 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:29.119 adapter to see just how fast this might 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:31.920 be you're looking at 240 WS which is 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:36.640 being delivered over a barrel Jack now at that kind of a wattage it is pretty 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:40.640 difficult to get it over USB type-c so I will accept the barrel Jack but it's 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:47.399 still not my favorite cuz this is a massive power adapter is there anything 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:50.280 else in here we got a little manual do 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:56.239 we have any stickers oh stickers heck yeah so here we have the new 00:00:53.600 --> 00:01:01.680 M16 and it is looking pretty good it actually looks a lot like Dell's gaming 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:04.479 laptops like G3 G5 that kind of more 00:01:01.680 --> 00:01:09.200 budget stuff but this is definitely a bit more premium how heavy is this it 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:16.720 feels pretty like given that I know there's a 4070 in here one sec 5.4 lb 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:19.600 that's pretty heavy but not too bad 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:25.840 given that it's a gaming laptop and with the charger we're up to O nearly 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:32.200 6.9 for context that's a total carry weight just over 3 Kg looking at the iio 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:36.920 it is quite solid on the right side we have a micro SD card reader and two type 00:01:34.479 --> 00:01:41.119 A ports that are in the exact correct spot to make sure that if you have a 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:45.240 Wired Mouse it runs straight into the wire right there very bad placement but 00:01:43.479 --> 00:01:51.119 I'm glad that they have them we also have Thunderbolt 4 USB type-c that 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:53.880 connects directly to the dgpu HDMI 2.1 00:01:51.119 --> 00:01:59.439 our power input right there on the left side we have headphone microphone combo 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.520 Jack and 2.5 GB land which I really like 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:06.680 to see looking at the design overall the materials are quite premium although it 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:12.840 does kind of look like a laptop from like 3 4 years ago this really isn't 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:14.360 giving me designed in 2023 Vibes but 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:18.480 that said look at the size of this trackpad it is Tiny compared to the 00:02:16.519 --> 00:02:24.280 amount of space that they could have used if they really wanted to go for it 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:28.879 for comparison here is the origin laptop that we use for screen recording on our 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:33.519 ShortCircuit set it is a slightly larger laptop 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:39.959 but just look at the size difference of those track pads it is complete night 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:43.480 and day looking at the design overall 00:02:39.959 --> 00:02:45.920 again it is very reserved but it is very 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:52.599 high quality as you can see there's very little Flex around the keyboard it's 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:55.440 very well built we also can see where 00:02:52.599 --> 00:03:00.680 all of the cooling is going so there's a whole bunch of vents here vents on the 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:03.959 sides and vents on the back back so I believe it's sucking in from the bottom 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:08.640 and blowing out there and there and there and there and it's really loud at 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:14.200 the moment what are you doing overdrive button Works confirm that 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noticing is that it's not particularly 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:07.239 bright although it is a matte display so Props for that alien wear it gets up to 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:10.439 375 nits as tested by our Labs which 00:04:07.239 --> 00:04:13.079 means it's fine enough indoors I have it 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:17.400 maxed right now and it's acceptable enough but at the same time you try and 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:21.840 take this outside not going to happen you are not going to see a thing and 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:27.000 that is compounded by the gamma leaning a little bit towards the darker end so 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:32.360 things that are black are going to be more blacker on here so you're dark 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:37.000 areas might be not quite as bright as you would expect that said though the 00:04:34.520 --> 00:04:43.960 color accuracy of this panel is absolutely fantastic it covers 100% of 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:46.240 srgb although it only covers srgb you 00:04:43.960 --> 00:04:53.240 don't get a wider color space than that we measured an average Delta e2000 of 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:55.520 1.42 which is absolutely fantastic you 00:04:53.240 --> 00:05:00.520 expect less than two to do professional color work so as long as you don't need 00:04:57.919 --> 00:05:05.800 the wider color spaces like d C ip3 or adobe RGB you can very much trust this 00:05:03.479 --> 00:05:11.919 display now in the future we are going to be changing our measurements a little 00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:14.440 bit to Delta e ITP which is a better way 00:05:11.919 --> 00:05:19.160 of measuring the colors on a display and this right here as our first one gets an 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:25.000 average Delta e ITP of 6.54 which is again really good it's not 00:05:22.880 --> 00:05:29.319 quite as good as like a Macbook in reference display mode but you know what 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:33.280 a Macbook can't do display 240 FPS straight to your eyeballs that's right 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:38.199 this thing right here has a 240 HZ panel and 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:40.800 1600p so that's like 1440p but a 16 by10 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:45.160 Edition which is just fantastic because I really love that even gaming laptops 00:05:43.080 --> 00:05:50.560 like this have those slightly taller displays because it just it makes more 00:05:47.400 --> 00:05:52.440 sense for the size of a laptop and also 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:56.720 it's just so much better for professional applications browsing the 00:05:54.600 --> 00:06:01.520 web that sort of stuff what also is great are the specs of this thing so we 00:05:58.919 --> 00:06:06.360 have the Intel core Ultra 7 155h if you really want it you can go up 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:10.720 to the ultra 9 but I suspect that's not going to be getting you a whole lot more 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:15.280 performance we also have 16 GB of RAM running at 5600 megat transfers per 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:19.759 second ooh and it says the form factor is sodm which is very exciting this 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:25.639 might actually be upgradeable we also have a Samsung NVMe SSD that is 1 tbte 00:06:23.880 --> 00:06:30.280 and also apparently you can set this up in raid Zero from the factory if you 00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:36.960 just want things to be really fast and not very reliable we also have Intel 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:41.120 Wi-Fi 7 on board we also have an NVIDIA 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:43.319 RTX 470 that is the top speec of this 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:50.120 and you might know that the R1 version of this came with up to an RTX 490 which 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:51.800 means that the new one is slower but as 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:56.560 we said at the start that is because they were able to make this chassis way 00:06:53.880 --> 00:07:02.479 smaller than the old one and most people just weren't buying over a 4070 anyway 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:07.360 also in here we have the npu with our Intel processor which we now know is not 00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:11.840 powerful enough to do most of the AI things that come with Microsoft co-pilot 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:16.879 so uh it's useless all right let's play some games now uh I did just launch 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:22.639 rocket league and as you can hear it's really flipping loud now one interesting 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:27.080 thing that our Labs noted is that even if you're in like balanced mode or quiet 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:31.120 mode or whatever if it's plugged in and you turn on a game it automatically goes 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:37.000 to Performance performance mode which is why is this 100% GPU fan speed you can 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:39.680 see this right here the GPU is at 50° C 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:45.560 it does not need to be at 100% fan speed balanced maybe quiet down please all 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:52.440 right it appears that we have gained 2° oh maybe three on the GPU and we now 00:07:49.159 --> 00:07:54.720 cannot hear the fans excellent tuning D 00:07:52.440 --> 00:08:00.360 all right this is not a very heavy game but we are seeing 250 to 300 FPS that's 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:05.120 pretty darn good and especially with this 240 HZ display I imagine this is 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:08.840 going to be a pretty good time if I'm honest I was planning on kind of 00:08:07.039 --> 00:08:13.080 complaining about this display cuz if you look at it compared to like most of 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:16.879 what other gaming laptops have now which is like oleds and stuff like that it 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:21.120 didn't sound like it would be too good but now that I'm seeing it in game this 00:08:18.599 --> 00:08:26.199 is excellent for gaming you don't necessarily need like the darkest blacks 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:30.240 or the most contrast for a game cuz sometimes that can be not even as good 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:34.479 if what you want to see is kind of dark on your display we have confirmed that 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:38.760 this gaming laptop is much powerful enough to play this let's head out just 00:08:36.959 --> 00:08:43.279 changed over performance mode again switch to Performance preset no change 00:08:40.839 --> 00:08:46.920 settings all right we can disable it we can go in the software we can flip a 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:50.880 switch and then it doesn't automatically go to Performance mode which I quite 00:08:48.680 --> 00:08:54.240 appreciate if you are playing a game and it seems like things are heating up a 00:08:52.760 --> 00:08:58.279 little bit too much you can just press this button right here boom high 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:01.519 performance mode enabled there we go from most part 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.920 I don't want that we can just very simply have it be in Balan mode and 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:11.480 everything will be happy this does also have NVIDIA Advanced Optimus so you have 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:17.920 gsync in there of course and we also have a direct line from the GPU directly 00:09:15.079 --> 00:09:21.480 to your display so it can get a little bit confused at times but for the most 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:27.360 part that means that you're going to have an extra 10 or so FPS compared to 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:31.440 if it had to put those frames through your igpu first to get into this display 00:09:30.040 --> 00:09:38.480 yeah we're in valheim here and we're looking at 75 FPS highest possible 00:09:35.079 --> 00:09:41.040 details that's at, 1600p of course our 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:49.079 lab also put it through the paces so we're looking at 104 FPS in cyberpunk 00:09:43.839 --> 00:09:51.519 2077 159 FPS in F1 2023 and 80 FPS in 00:09:49.079 --> 00:09:57.680 Total War Warhammer 3 and that is coming out of the 140 wat 470 in this model of 00:09:55.079 --> 00:10:03.120 the M16 that we have right here now that was able to beat the Asus sephus G14 00:10:00.920 --> 00:10:07.760 which is good cuz this is a much larger laptop although it wasn't able to quite 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:14.480 match the Rog strix g16 which you'd think would be pretty 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:16.160 similar at 140 W TDP on the GPU as well 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:21.480 but maybe they're able to just stretch their CPUs legs a little bit more either 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:27.079 way this is a pretty freaking fast laptop even if it is quite loud in that 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:32.519 performance mode but loads of gaming performance is no good to you if the 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:36.240 keyboard is trash fortunately though this one feels 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:41.760 excellent yeah this keyboard is fantastic I'm going to give it just a 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:44.000 solid a there is loads of consistency 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:49.560 between the keys there is heaps of travel look at that they feel really 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:53.680 good they have a nice tactile bump at the top they don't bottom out in any 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:59.320 sort of a weird way there's enough chassis rigidity that they are just 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:01.920 working really quite well now I will 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:07.000 briefly complain about the trackpad it's overall pretty good the tracking solid I 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:10.760 haven't had any problems with it like right clicking when I meant to left 00:11:08.680 --> 00:11:14.680 click or stuff like that I just wish there was more of it like I said before 00:11:12.560 --> 00:11:17.920 there's quite a bit of space here that they definitely could have put a 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:23.000 trackpad into and it kind of seems like they just reused the old one from the 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:26.560 laptop that had all of that extra space for fans and crap on the back and all of 00:11:25.040 --> 00:11:32.560 this was moved down but instead they just didn't bother making a new one for 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:34.480 this gen which is kind of disappointing 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:39.800 especially given that this is not a cheap laptop it's passible I am going to 00:11:37.839 --> 00:11:46.040 accept the size of the trackpad just simply because Alienware did such a good 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:47.880 job on this keyboard so I will be okay 00:11:46.040 --> 00:11:52.200 maybe plugging in a mouse every now and then if I need to if it does mean that I 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:57.360 can comfortably type on this keyboard for hours and hours but can I 00:11:54.040 --> 00:12:01.240 comfortably listen to music 4 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.240 hours all right 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:07.279 tiny wow there's there's not a lot going 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:13.800 on there it's loud but there's no base 00:12:11.560 --> 00:12:21.320 whatsoever compared to the speakers that I've been hearing on other laptops like 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:23.440 those from Asus and Razer and HP these 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:27.959 do not match up to what they have been able to achieve and it's especially 00:12:24.920 --> 00:12:30.360 disappointing cuz Dell on their XPS line 00:12:27.959 --> 00:12:35.040 has really f fantastic speakers and it's kind of sad that that technology wasn't 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:40.639 able to make it over here J's probably also really disappointing given Dell's 00:12:37.160 --> 00:12:43.120 streak the webcam we do have a 1080p 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:51.680 webcam here and it looks okay I guess I look really blocky 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:53.399 and kind of blotchy and overall just not 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:59.160 particularly flattered by what I am seeing but at the same time it's not 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:00.959 doing anything egregiously wrong it's 00:12:59.160 --> 00:13:06.040 exposing for my face as well as I can even though it's kind of completely 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:09.199 blown out right there it's so grainy and 00:13:06.040 --> 00:13:12.040 overall trash looking that wa look at 00:13:09.199 --> 00:13:17.920 those Halos whenever I move it the like the image stays for a second I would say 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:20.240 that webcam is perfectly acceptable even 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:24.360 though not good at all hopefully the Qualcomm laptops that are coming out now 00:13:22.079 --> 00:13:28.040 will just blow this out of the water or they do I can tell you that for sure one 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:31.440 thing that is very nice about this camera though is that there's IR sensors 00:13:29.959 --> 00:13:37.360 up here so you can use Windows hello facial recognition to get into your laptop which is my personal favorite way 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:41.720 to get into a laptop one thing I have been noticing though is that it's 00:13:39.160 --> 00:13:46.639 getting really warm around this it has the exhausts on the side that are 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.760 blowing out this way and the area on the 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:53.759 M pad even though we haven't been gaming for a while is really hot these are 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:59.880 kicking out a lot of heat and I imagine if you to play games for half an hour an 00:13:56.920 --> 00:14:04.279 hour or so your hand over here is going to be getting very toasty especially if 00:14:01.959 --> 00:14:11.120 you're gaming in the summer so note that eight Phillips head screws later and we 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:12.880 are in and I am quite impressed so many 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:17.199 laptops these days do not have upgradeable RAM and I love to see that 00:14:15.199 --> 00:14:21.720 Alienware has kept on including that here even in their mline which is you 00:14:19.959 --> 00:14:28.480 know supposed to be a little bit thinner and lighter this rate here huge bonus 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:30.920 for me so we only have 16 GB of RAM in 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:36.560 our model here if you need more in the future just put in more you can just do 00:14:33.079 --> 00:14:38.759 it super easy to do this I absolutely 00:14:36.560 --> 00:14:43.519 love to see that kind of upgradeability and it moves this laptop up a couple of 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:48.360 places for me personally also if you want to put in a second SSD you can do 00:14:45.839 --> 00:14:53.440 so right here if you did insc one from the factory and if for whatever reason 00:14:50.880 --> 00:14:57.399 Wi-Fi 7 doesn't work in a couple years well you can just replace your Wi-Fi 00:14:54.880 --> 00:15:02.639 card as well so that is about as good of upgradeability as we can expect expect 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:05.079 from a laptop like this so good job guys 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:08.920 also looking at the heat sink here it's nothing too crazy we don't have a 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:13.759 massive Vapor chamber we just have a couple of heat pipes going to our vents 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:19.279 on the back and on the sides we've got two fans that are just pretty typical 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:24.720 fans for your laptop but the star of this show here besides our SOA memory is 00:15:21.680 --> 00:15:27.399 the 90w hour battery now this being a 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:32.360 gaming laptop it's not the most efficient in the world but we were still 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:36.600 able to get over 7 and 1/2 hours in our battery life endurance test which is 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:41.880 pretty good for a laptop like this something like the Asus G14 does beat it 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:46.680 pretty much every ryzen gaming laptop does beat it actually but for an Intel 00:15:44.199 --> 00:15:51.240 gaming laptop it is really quite good I feel like it's very rare these days that 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:56.319 a computer manufacturer manages to just make something that overall is solid 00:15:54.279 --> 00:16:00.759 there's nothing about it that blew me away I wasn't like oh an OLED screen wow 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:04.680 what if the same time there's nothing really bad about it like I can wish for 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:09.240 a slightly larger trackpad but that's not a deal breaker for sure and the 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:13.639 keyboard more than makes up for it so I quite like it this model that we have 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:19.600 right here with 16 GB of RAM terab of memory and that 470 comes in at 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:25.000 $1900 so it is definitely a bit expensive but it is also quite in line 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:28.720 with everyone else and in particular if you can find one of these on sale I 00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:32.839 would jump on it just like I'm going to jump jump onto the end of this video hit 00:16:31.319 --> 00:16:37.199 like get subscribed and just have a great all day see you later Labs just 00:16:35.160 --> 00:16:41.480 asked if I want to talk about the max spec version that's 3,800 bucks I don't 00:16:39.920 --> 00:16:44.959 that's stupid don't buy that one just upgrade it yourself