Yeah, I'm sorry to say he overpaid. For this, you can get these exact same model machines off of eBay for $200 to $300. They are all over the place. It's ridiculous. I just bought one fully loaded out the door for 200 bucks and have had no problem.
@johnDingoFoxVelocity used market is where it's at. I bought an alienware r4 m17 with a 3070, 10th gen i7 and 32gb soldered ram (unfortunately) for $140. Yes $140...though the screen had green lines indicating a bad gpu, I transfered the item to my name and paid $262 for a premium dell extended warranty. Sent it out on a Friday, got it back the next Tuesday eith a new mobo and gpu. All in all $462 for that laptop is awesome and I have 1yr warranty still. Dell has great customer service...
I have that laptop and I'm in love with it. It's crazy to play and it works well with most programs. The only thing is that I need an Office key for some apps.
“Role playing as the sunny side of Mercury” lmaooo! Dawid is hands down the best at his sponsors’ sections. I don’t skip forward. Sign of a master at work.
Okay the whale sounds got me. The booty on that laptop just looks weird, the shape doesn't even line up with the rest and it looks even worse due to the color mismatch. All rear IO is awful too, just leads to broken DC jacks due to people not always using them flat on a desk and straining the ports. That thermal performance is terrible as well, as usual with Dell they've applied power limits that they cannot maintain. EC firmwares are often real sketchy as well, fans not reacting properly to load etc. Sometimes they fix this with updates, sometimes they don't... plenty of Dell BIOS/EC firmwares completely broke CPU C states on many laptops for example.
I got this laptop with a 4060, 16gbs of RAM and 1Tb brand new but sold by the store as “open box”. Basically, it was an order from their customer, who cancelled on them, so I got bug discount and it was 2100$ cad. Honestly, I love it, and the performance is really nice. It’s not my main PC, but I daily drive it for school. It’s obvious not the cheapest and most bang for the buck laptop out there, but considering it was there, and I was looking for something in that performance level and price range, and it was still brand new with a clean windows install ready to be setup. I took it and have been using it for just over a year now.
@@GoatedYoungThug idk, the form factor and experience of using it for the past year have been great, and despite being an intel based system, I was really surprised by how long the battery can last. For 2100 cad brand new, with warranty from not just DELL, but aso the small IT store that I bought it from, I have zero complaints!
@@Alex-zy6yc a 4080 for 2100?!? I assume you mean 2100$ USD, cuz I’m saying 2100 Cad, and there’s no way you can get that kind of computer for 2100$ cad!
7:38 Gawd daym thats a solid looking hinge. lets hope its actually mounted to something thats not just a brass insert in a bit of plastic under the screen lid
So fun fact, for a good sleeper, compact, "gaming" laptop; the Precision 34XX series is surprisingly capable. Even better if you can nab it on sale. I got my 3480 for $400, and it has a i7-1370P, and a RT A500(RTX 3050). The new one has core ultra and the 4050 equivalent, and just looks like a normal office laptop.
I bought an Alienware r16 a few months ago with an AMD 7850 hx and 4080. As a desktop snob I quite like it except for the fans, the keyboard, and "foot". 3D printed a stand for itand it works pretty damn well. As far as upgradability two m.2 slots, upgradeable RAM and Wi-Fi. Also has a USB and Ethernet port on the left. $2500 from best buy.
Dell sent me the most expensive m17 r2 a while back to replace my laptop they broke (took 3 months so they gave in) and it lasted 2 years before quite literally blowing up, and thats after a mobo replacement. I now have a what use to be $3000+ laptop paper weight
The back part is primarily to keep the laptop stable, provide more cooling fin area, but also to keep the ports away from the main body of heat. It's an engineering choice they've been doing for a while, very nice hinge. I bought an Alienware laptop a few years ago and honestly, they're really fine.
I bought a used Alienware pc for my kid, really powerful, dual 970s, i7, 16 gb ram, for her vr games. I wanna tell you, I have never lifted a heavier pc in my life, at least 60lbs 😂😂😂
Dual 970s? Lol that's like 2016 specs. That 16gb ram is probably ddr3 and the cpu is like a 6800h series i7. Sure they can still play games I have my asus rog with a 980m and plays cod, r6 siege, fortnite etc etc pretty good
Not to be too elitist but dual 970s is very much NOT "really powerful" by any modern standard. Those GPUs are literally a decade old and were mediocre then. You can play simple games like Fortnite but I just hope you didn't pay too much for it.
Oh man, I 100% guarantee you that was designed by the same person at Dell that did the XPS. It looks so much like someone just made a slightly bigger XPS13
If you are going to game on a laptop then you have to either get a cooling pad or lift its back up to create a gap between the laptop and the desk. This makes a huge difference in cooling the laptop.
true with the design of this laptop that might not be so much the case. cooling pads are also going to be a little iffy because of how the ventilation is all at the bottom of the laptop
Speaking of network dongles Dawid, it would be interesting to see you take an SBC/NUC and use dongles for all the I/O. Ginormous GPU via PCI dongle, network dongle, external M.2 dongle, external sound dongle, you name it...DongleMania! Push it to the Moon (or Noon on Mercury)! Then to help the poor little SBC delay it's inevitable meltdown, earn valuable Streamer Pointz by hooking the hot mess to your window AC contraption. It will be glorious!
Im using 4,5 years old Alienware M15 R5 since January 2021 bought on Dell sale. My model have R7 5800H, RTX3070, 64GB ram and 240hz 1440o display. It’s still capable laptop. After so many years of use I can recommend Alienware laptops. They not perforce as when utilising components fans are loud and cpu/gpu temperatures inside are hot but easily within recommended levels.
It's insane how many modern "gaming" laptops don't have an ethernet port and don't come with an adapter either. Being able to use a wired connection is just as important as any GPU or CPU
@@unionofslavstanrepublics2317 That’s fair, but it’s definitely ok English. Like when you ask someone if they wanna try something new and they go “sure, I’m game.” But I can appreciate if it sounds goofy to some.
It's kinda weird to put on a product though. You'd think their marketing line there would be something like 'We're Gaming' as though they're the embodiment of it. But I guess they were going for the 'we are up to it if you are' form. I will admit when Dawid showed it I was a bit confused, it took me a while to think of that turn of phrase.
Maybe from a performance standpoint but they're entirely different systems for different markets altogether. It's not even like comparing a desktop to a laptop, handhelds are something else. But even then they're not really, only the highest end of handhelds can really compete with modern low end laptops performance wise and they still don't really hit the mark until probably next gen. But even then, you have to look at even lower end honestly.
There was a time when I had one of their ex series laptops and it had a 3070 GPU and a top-of-the-line Intel CPU. That laptop was absolutely amazing and no matter what I threw at it temperatures stayed in the 80s. It was also easy to customize with either more ram or additional memory slots, and I honestly love the computer and even had a mechanical keyboard. At the end of the day, I ended up in a situation where I could have a full desktop experience and I ended up selling it, but it was honestly a great laptop.
For 1000 USD i bought MINT like new, even with screen protectors alienware area 51m r2 with rtx2080super and i9-10900k 32gb ram, the power this laptop offer is enaugh for me and i think the quality is much better than the one You showed, also the cpu is a desktop version as well the performance of 2080super is not like the mobile version, just had to re-pad and re-paste the cpu and gpu! Im so happy with the purchase.
I have an Alienware laptop with a 1080 in it. The CPU thermal throttled with anything even remotely demanding. Turned out Dell had cheaped out on thermal paste. Seems wild to me given how cheap decent thermal paste is. This thing had some of the best laptop components money could buy at that time and they cheaped out on thermal paste?! Once I fixed it, it was a monster laptop that I still get use out of today on work trips. Plus, the whole experience inspired me to build an actual decent desk top PC.
My main laptop is actually an Alienware M15 R4 but it's a higher end model with a RTX 3080 wirh boost up to 140W. I had it for 3 years now and it's been solid. It actually performs similarly to a desktop with a 3060Ti in gaming. Timespy score roughly 11K.
I configured a laptop from PC specialist and it ended up costing £1700, ran every game very well. Was happy with it, I ended up buying a monitor keyboard and mouse and hooked it all up to laptop and never opened the laptop lid again. I also put it on a fan cooling tray. Super loud but I gamed with headset. Sold for a normal PC.
Speaking from experience, that 130w power brick comes with the Dell Latitude 5531's. Nice to see it's the same as having a plastic turning stock in a Lamborghini.
Alienware does make a good laptop and a good display. If they could figure out their airflow/misplaced engineering in a desktop, they would slay it there too.
It's got the same problem I've seen on all laptops with an Intel cpu that shares the cooling system with the GPU. You have to disable the cpu turbo for extended gaming sessions. Or else it will overwhelm the cooling system and bring the whole system to a slower state.
I always used throttle stop on my laptops to undervolt them, and you can restrict clocks and turbo, even on locked processors, or with motherboards that don't have those settings.
@@KesterKurtal The best you can do is turn off turbo on 9th gen and newer Intel processors if they aren't unlocked undervaluing isn't possible anymore.
@@KesterKurtal Yeah it was recommended to me to undervolt the CPU, and to get throttlestop to do it. So I grabbed it for my laptop with a 9th gen cpu and thats how I found out about the locking down. Only HX cpus can be undervolted now.
One of my coworkers used to work ad Dell (up until 2, 3 years ago). Whenever someone asks him for an employee discount his first reply is “are you sure you want to buy a Dell?” Jokes aside, it’s kind of interesting to see Alienware’s approach to a 14in laptop. Socketed wifi is even more surprising. A 4050 at this price is meh but then again if you’re buying a 14in laptop you probably know what you’re getting into
I have the Alienware X14 R2 with 3050 6GB and I love mine. I've owned it for about a year, and it plays games and does creative work well. I think it's probably one of the nicest looking laptops around. The only other laptop that I think is nicer is probably the Glacier White Lenovo Legion.
On your last question, Alienware machines in general aren't the most well-thought-out designs, especially from a cooling perspective. However, as is the case with all gaming systems, a desktop will always trounce a similarly priced laptop (including the cooling side of things, but especially on ease of maintenance and upgrades).
Did a review on the M16 R1 AMD version a couple months ago. I have really enjoyed the laptop, got it open box, and it has a 7845hx 12 core and a rtx 4080. Paid 1500 bucks, seriously my favorite laptop I've ever bought, and I have been a dell/alienware hater for 25 years. Also mine didn't have any bloatware on it either, I was shocked.
I had the first release of this laptop and it was a screamer even with its little i5 and 3050. I couldn’t tell from your hit piece if you were launching games from the Alienware command center like you are supposed to. For maximum performance on games you need to run them and full tilt fans-a-blazing at full speed. In that gameplay mode it’s a different laptop. Overriding fan speeds to full is key to performance in this little guy. Without it you are gaming on a throttled normal laptop.
skyrim console needs a proper numpad to work. needs separate pg up/down keys so lack of numpad means cant be perfect gaming laptop (unless you carry around a full usb keyboard).
I spent $2,800 CAD on an MSI Vector 16, and after some bios and OC tweaking, and a cooling pad purchase, I'm exteremly happy with this laptop. i9 13980HX, 32gb ram, and RTX 4080. It was on sale when I bought it, though...
Picked up an M18 R1 AMD from Best Buy and it’s been great. $1800 before taxes. The trick with Alienware is never buy new models, let them work out the bugs and save some money.
For some reason i am obssesed with alienware laptops, i am never gonna buy one but the videos reviewing these old laptops are so darn entertaining to watch
I’d rather have any sort of USB-C dock with Ethernet than having to plug in and unplug EVERYTHING from the back. You can literally get a good one for just 160 CAD or so, that has lots of USB ports, Ethernet, audio input and output, and etc depending on which brand.
New windows install yes. But - I would very much recommend putting Alienware commander back on afterwards - there's a not small pile of dead m17 and x15 machines in a storage cupboard somewhere at the office where someone didn't do that
I have a x14 R1 that I bought about a year and a half ago, and they have defiantly cheeped out on the build quality. My R1 doesn't have any of the plastic bits on it or the major chassis flex that this one displayed. Over all I have been very happy with the x14 R1 that I have.
I've had power delivery issues with laptops, and it's mainly because of the power profiles applied by the vendors. Clean Windows install or not, the way around this is to enable the default Windows power profiles. Most gaming laptops will have the "Ultimate Performance" profile hidden and bypassed by the vendor's power profile. Under the vendor's power profile, cpu and gpu don't reach their manufacturer advertised power delivery so that the vendor can sell their "great sound and cooling performance" by simply under powering the components. Yes, you'll probably get more fan noise, but that's because the fans are doing what they're supposed to. I've had Dell, ASUS and Gigabyte laptops, and they all disable the Ultimate Performance profile. Once I enabled it I had more steady power to both cpu and gpu, actually reaching their respective limits, which reduces stuttering during gameplay. Side note, the only issue I see with the Alienware/Dell laptops is the cooling design. Having to pull the whole motherboard out just to change thermal pads and paste is just dumb.
One thing I rarely see mentioned that dell does very well is warranty support. The alienwares come with on site support, which I have taken advantage of in the past and is pretty good. Maybe do a video testing their warranty support? It has to be better than asus.
Me: "Today, Dawid will not hit me with a brand-new nonsensical insult to technology which not only comes out of left field but fits flawlessly... It's not possible." Dawid: "Plague Ridden Goblin Sharks" Me: "GOD...FUCKING...DAMN IT!"
Oh god the price for the laptop is UFO level:
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@@CatCatuna I just paid $1000 for a non gaming laptop, so yeah. Not bad at all.
@@CatCatunayou could get an older version of the g14(2022 or 2023)
Yeah, I'm sorry to say he overpaid. For this, you can get these exact same model machines off of eBay for $200 to $300. They are all over the place. It's ridiculous. I just bought one fully loaded out the door for 200 bucks and have had no problem.
@SimplyTheSloth we don't recall main OP's comment asking for your opinion either but yet here we are. The hypocrisy in your statement holy shit
@johnDingoFoxVelocity used market is where it's at. I bought an alienware r4 m17 with a 3070, 10th gen i7 and 32gb soldered ram (unfortunately) for $140. Yes $140...though the screen had green lines indicating a bad gpu, I transfered the item to my name and paid $262 for a premium dell extended warranty. Sent it out on a Friday, got it back the next Tuesday eith a new mobo and gpu. All in all $462 for that laptop is awesome and I have 1yr warranty still. Dell has great customer service...
I have that laptop and I'm in love with it. It's crazy to play and it works well with most programs. The only thing is that I need an Office key for some apps.
I always use BNH Software to avoid complications and it has never let me down.
Usually aliens abduct us, this time Dawid abducted one back.
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Usually they probe us, this time Dawid probed them!
Well amount of probing he gets it time to prone back
I came to comment about actual aliens. I suppose this comment will suffice. 👽👽👽
@@christophermullins7163 ;)
"It performs very well hooked up to a window AC" Your sponsors should pay you more 😅
“Role playing as the sunny side of Mercury” lmaooo!
Dawid is hands down the best at his sponsors’ sections. I don’t skip forward. Sign of a master at work.
your parents are disappointed on how your life's turned out😱😱
gaming is fucked when a laptop with 4050 costs $1800...
Well that's Canadian dollars. Their flag is a leaf.
@@nazgulsenpai i don't care if it's in Liberian dollars, that's way too expensive for that tier of performance.
Yes
50 class gpu, with soldered memory for $1800 CAD. God it's a joke here.
And it'll get even worse, charging a premium price for a 50 tier GPU with shitty cooling
That mic comparison is the best way to demonstrate the difference sound quality!
04:30 also quite open to the ingress of accidental fluids turning the Alien into a quivering mess.
It's gonna be hard to explain what happened to customer support
"Point away from the screen" should be on a sticker when you first open it.
2:03 fav part
🧐
Best part
Okay the whale sounds got me.
The booty on that laptop just looks weird, the shape doesn't even line up with the rest and it looks even worse due to the color mismatch. All rear IO is awful too, just leads to broken DC jacks due to people not always using them flat on a desk and straining the ports.
That thermal performance is terrible as well, as usual with Dell they've applied power limits that they cannot maintain. EC firmwares are often real sketchy as well, fans not reacting properly to load etc. Sometimes they fix this with updates, sometimes they don't... plenty of Dell BIOS/EC firmwares completely broke CPU C states on many laptops for example.
I got this laptop with a 4060, 16gbs of RAM and 1Tb brand new but sold by the store as “open box”. Basically, it was an order from their customer, who cancelled on them, so I got bug discount and it was 2100$ cad. Honestly, I love it, and the performance is really nice. It’s not my main PC, but I daily drive it for school. It’s obvious not the cheapest and most bang for the buck laptop out there, but considering it was there, and I was looking for something in that performance level and price range, and it was still brand new with a clean windows install ready to be setup. I took it and have been using it for just over a year now.
that is not worth the price at all
@@GoatedYoungThug idk, the form factor and experience of using it for the past year have been great, and despite being an intel based system, I was really surprised by how long the battery can last. For 2100 cad brand new, with warranty from not just DELL, but aso the small IT store that I bought it from, I have zero complaints!
For 2100 you could get a 4080 laptop
@@Alex-zy6yc a 4080 for 2100?!? I assume you mean 2100$ USD, cuz I’m saying 2100 Cad, and there’s no way you can get that kind of computer for 2100$ cad!
@@Alex-zy6yc 1406,82 in euro
7:38 Gawd daym thats a solid looking hinge. lets hope its actually mounted to something thats not just a brass insert in a bit of plastic under the screen lid
So fun fact, for a good sleeper, compact, "gaming" laptop; the Precision 34XX series is surprisingly capable. Even better if you can nab it on sale. I got my 3480 for $400, and it has a i7-1370P, and a RT A500(RTX 3050). The new one has core ultra and the 4050 equivalent, and just looks like a normal office laptop.
are there any cooling issues?
I'm having a hard time with my heart man. Today was rough just waking up. You made me laugh within the first ten seconds of the video.
Thank you.
oh, so sorry to hear that. hope you get better!
Hold on, man.
I hope you get better.
Hang in there my friend ❤
u got this brother! 😤
I have had my alienware 18 on every day for 11 years and counting. Still plays anything pre 2018 on high/ultra settings. Best purchase I ever made.
I bought an Alienware r16 a few months ago with an AMD 7850 hx and 4080. As a desktop snob I quite like it except for the fans, the keyboard, and "foot". 3D printed a stand for itand it works pretty damn well. As far as upgradability two m.2 slots, upgradeable RAM and Wi-Fi. Also has a USB and Ethernet port on the left. $2500 from best buy.
Thank you DDTS.. your weekend video is perfect Saturday evening viewing here in Perth West Australia
hahaha yes
Dell sent me the most expensive m17 r2 a while back to replace my laptop they broke (took 3 months so they gave in) and it lasted 2 years before quite literally blowing up, and thats after a mobo replacement. I now have a what use to be $3000+ laptop paper weight
same here
This couldn't have been a true Dawid video as there was no mention of dysentery, gonorrhea, or syphilis. LMAO!
Haha yeah because there was no McAffe on it 😂
LMAO!
1700$ for a RTX 4050 16 gb of ram and not upgradable ram and 500 gb ssd is CRIMINAL
The back part is primarily to keep the laptop stable, provide more cooling fin area, but also to keep the ports away from the main body of heat.
It's an engineering choice they've been doing for a while, very nice hinge.
I bought an Alienware laptop a few years ago and honestly, they're really fine.
I bought a used Alienware pc for my kid, really powerful, dual 970s, i7, 16 gb ram, for her vr games.
I wanna tell you, I have never lifted a heavier pc in my life, at least 60lbs 😂😂😂
Dual 970s? Lol that's like 2016 specs. That 16gb ram is probably ddr3 and the cpu is like a 6800h series i7. Sure they can still play games I have my asus rog with a 980m and plays cod, r6 siege, fortnite etc etc pretty good
Not to be too elitist but dual 970s is very much NOT "really powerful" by any modern standard. Those GPUs are literally a decade old and were mediocre then. You can play simple games like Fortnite but I just hope you didn't pay too much for it.
That’s not powerful. My 4050 beats the aging 970.
You should have gotten something newer.
My...laptop's GPU is around 4.5x the performance of a GTX 970....
@@Nauzhror1216 what gpu do you have ?
Thank you for making and sharing your videos
I actually love the "booties" in Alienware laptops because they look cool.
Just not so much on the 14"
@@aaz1992 I actually like big laptops as long as they look cool and perform well.
was looking for this comment. I love the way it looks.
@@raffitchakmakjian Fr
Any gaming laptop with non upgradable ram is a big L
Oh man, I 100% guarantee you that was designed by the same person at Dell that did the XPS. It looks so much like someone just made a slightly bigger XPS13
That’s what I thought too!!! I have one and was surprised by the similarities
If you are going to game on a laptop then you have to either get a cooling pad or lift its back up to create a gap between the laptop and the desk. This makes a huge difference in cooling the laptop.
true with the design of this laptop that might not be so much the case. cooling pads are also going to be a little iffy because of how the ventilation is all at the bottom of the laptop
Ah, a Dawid video. Where comments go to die
2:02 As a dad I can say you've nailed that sound. A+
Speaking of network dongles Dawid, it would be interesting to see you take an SBC/NUC and use dongles for all the I/O.
Ginormous GPU via PCI dongle, network dongle, external M.2 dongle, external sound dongle, you name it...DongleMania!
Push it to the Moon (or Noon on Mercury)!
Then to help the poor little SBC delay it's inevitable meltdown, earn valuable Streamer Pointz by hooking the hot mess to your window AC contraption. It will be glorious!
i am typing this on my new steam deck!
nice did you get stock or oled?
No one cares.
hows it like?
@@Kuldar67 i care...I care buddy...
@@Gravage why bro mad?
Love some early morning shenanigan’s with Dawid does tech stuff so let’s see what kind of trouble he is upto today.
Im using 4,5 years old Alienware M15 R5 since January 2021 bought on Dell sale. My model have R7 5800H, RTX3070, 64GB ram and 240hz 1440o display. It’s still capable laptop. After so many years of use I can recommend Alienware laptops. They not perforce as when utilising components fans are loud and cpu/gpu temperatures inside are hot but easily within recommended levels.
Dawid, you and your videos are awesome, and I can't for them each week, keep it up
It's insane how many modern "gaming" laptops don't have an ethernet port and don't come with an adapter either.
Being able to use a wired connection is just as important as any GPU or CPU
1:19 Ah yes **WE'RE GAME.**
Truly a Engrish moment.
Technically a perfectly fine sentence in English, actually. Is it cheesy and kinda dumb here? Sure, probably. But it’s also acceptable English.
Dell is an American company 😂
@@archgirl We're game or We are game isn't the best worded phrase in my eyes.
@@unionofslavstanrepublics2317 That’s fair, but it’s definitely ok English. Like when you ask someone if they wanna try something new and they go “sure, I’m game.” But I can appreciate if it sounds goofy to some.
It's kinda weird to put on a product though. You'd think their marketing line there would be something like 'We're Gaming' as though they're the embodiment of it. But I guess they were going for the 'we are up to it if you are' form. I will admit when Dawid showed it I was a bit confused, it took me a while to think of that turn of phrase.
As always FUN stuff, thanks Dawid for all your reviews. YOU da Man !
Modern low end gaming laptops are directly competing with handhelds, and it's honestly embarrassing for them.
Maybe from a performance standpoint but they're entirely different systems for different markets altogether. It's not even like comparing a desktop to a laptop, handhelds are something else. But even then they're not really, only the highest end of handhelds can really compete with modern low end laptops performance wise and they still don't really hit the mark until probably next gen. But even then, you have to look at even lower end honestly.
There was a time when I had one of their ex series laptops and it had a 3070 GPU and a top-of-the-line Intel CPU. That laptop was absolutely amazing and no matter what I threw at it temperatures stayed in the 80s.
It was also easy to customize with either more ram or additional memory slots, and I honestly love the computer and even had a mechanical keyboard. At the end of the day, I ended up in a situation where I could have a full desktop experience and I ended up selling it, but it was honestly a great laptop.
NGL, really missing Linode being a sponsor in the intros.
Is the Laptop using LPCAMM2 rams? Dell sales representative confirms X16 R2 (AU) use soldered rams - no LPCAMM2.
I like the idea of the side hand warmer 😂. Crappy laptop though at that price point...
When Dawid touched the intakes, for a moment I thought that he tried to dissolve them with his finger grease
Alienware purposely put all the plastic there for Dawid's love of peeling ASMR. Edit: That flick shot though.
I wonder if Linus' secret shopper had something to do with McAfee not being the default option anymore.
$1700 for a 4050? I'll pass.
My Alienware has a gtx 765m & was $2000 at launch
I have an x16 r2 and I LOVE IT. I'm actually impressed by the quality of the laptop
'Gaming Laptop' has always been an oxymoron to me.
I have owned this laptop for about a year now. 32gb and a 4060. Very happy with it. I got it for $1200 from Dell.
i wished to see the difference in performance compared to a clean install of windows
Me and my friends were just talking about your vids roasting Alienware desktops, and how the laptops were better. And then this vid came out.
For 1000 USD i bought MINT like new, even with screen protectors alienware area 51m r2 with rtx2080super and i9-10900k 32gb ram, the power this laptop offer is enaugh for me and i think the quality is much better than the one You showed, also the cpu is a desktop version as well the performance of 2080super is not like the mobile version, just had to re-pad and re-paste the cpu and gpu! Im so happy with the purchase.
Now i am waiting for BeQuiet! To start marketing A/C vent adapters....
I have an Alienware laptop with a 1080 in it. The CPU thermal throttled with anything even remotely demanding. Turned out Dell had cheaped out on thermal paste. Seems wild to me given how cheap decent thermal paste is. This thing had some of the best laptop components money could buy at that time and they cheaped out on thermal paste?! Once I fixed it, it was a monster laptop that I still get use out of today on work trips. Plus, the whole experience inspired me to build an actual decent desk top PC.
My main laptop is actually an Alienware M15 R4 but it's a higher end model with a RTX 3080 wirh boost up to 140W. I had it for 3 years now and it's been solid. It actually performs similarly to a desktop with a 3060Ti in gaming. Timespy score roughly 11K.
love the fact that dawid opens the system up before even turning the power on XD
I configured a laptop from PC specialist and it ended up costing £1700, ran every game very well. Was happy with it, I ended up buying a monitor keyboard and mouse and hooked it all up to laptop and never opened the laptop lid again. I also put it on a fan cooling tray. Super loud but I gamed with headset. Sold for a normal PC.
Will you ever meet with Jackie? or will you just bench mark Cyberpunk 2077
I too immediately smell the included packaging just to see what the real story is.
The Whale noises killed me! I honestly could not watch the rest of the video unless I skipped it! 1:54 to 2:07 was my TOD...
If I ever won anything alienware, I wouldn't even open it, i'd just sell it asap. not worth the headaches.
I like that they actually tried a few new and different things with this, but the price is insane.
Speaking from experience, that 130w power brick comes with the Dell Latitude 5531's. Nice to see it's the same as having a plastic turning stock in a Lamborghini.
Alienware does make a good laptop and a good display. If they could figure out their airflow/misplaced engineering in a desktop, they would slay it there too.
It's got the same problem I've seen on all laptops with an Intel cpu that shares the cooling system with the GPU. You have to disable the cpu turbo for extended gaming sessions. Or else it will overwhelm the cooling system and bring the whole system to a slower state.
A co-worker has one similar to this and he mentioned the overheating problems as well. On his with a 4060 it hits slowdown mode within 10 minutes.
I always used throttle stop on my laptops to undervolt them, and you can restrict clocks and turbo, even on locked processors, or with motherboards that don't have those settings.
@@KesterKurtal The best you can do is turn off turbo on 9th gen and newer Intel processors if they aren't unlocked undervaluing isn't possible anymore.
@@Jackpkmn I did not know that, the newest laptop I had, had an 8th gen in it.
@@KesterKurtal Yeah it was recommended to me to undervolt the CPU, and to get throttlestop to do it. So I grabbed it for my laptop with a 9th gen cpu and thats how I found out about the locking down. Only HX cpus can be undervolted now.
One of my coworkers used to work ad Dell (up until 2, 3 years ago). Whenever someone asks him for an employee discount his first reply is “are you sure you want to buy a Dell?”
Jokes aside, it’s kind of interesting to see Alienware’s approach to a 14in laptop. Socketed wifi is even more surprising. A 4050 at this price is meh but then again if you’re buying a 14in laptop you probably know what you’re getting into
I have the Alienware X14 R2 with 3050 6GB and I love mine. I've owned it for about a year, and it plays games and does creative work well. I think it's probably one of the nicest looking laptops around. The only other laptop that I think is nicer is probably the Glacier White Lenovo Legion.
On your last question, Alienware machines in general aren't the most well-thought-out designs, especially from a cooling perspective. However, as is the case with all gaming systems, a desktop will always trounce a similarly priced laptop (including the cooling side of things, but especially on ease of maintenance and upgrades).
Apple Product smell ya the Apple of gaming Laptops.
Yay another laptop videos!
I think they should have bumped the power supply from one hundred and thitty to about tree fitty.
Did a review on the M16 R1 AMD version a couple months ago. I have really enjoyed the laptop, got it open box, and it has a 7845hx 12 core and a rtx 4080. Paid 1500 bucks, seriously my favorite laptop I've ever bought, and I have been a dell/alienware hater for 25 years. Also mine didn't have any bloatware on it either, I was shocked.
The Dell Precision laptop I have from work came with exactly the same power supply.
I had the first release of this laptop and it was a screamer even with its little i5 and 3050. I couldn’t tell from your hit piece if you were launching games from the Alienware command center like you are supposed to. For maximum performance on games you need to run them and full tilt fans-a-blazing at full speed. In that gameplay mode it’s a different laptop. Overriding fan speeds to full is key to performance in this little guy. Without it you are gaming on a throttled normal laptop.
even if the no MacAfee option was $20... it's worth it for what a pain it is to remove
skyrim console needs a proper numpad to work. needs separate pg up/down keys so lack of numpad means cant be perfect gaming laptop (unless you carry around a full usb keyboard).
Ah yes the tradition of dell products lacking cooling is continued in this mixed bag of a laptop
When I heard the price, I started laughing.
I spent $2,800 CAD on an MSI Vector 16, and after some bios and OC tweaking, and a cooling pad purchase, I'm exteremly happy with this laptop. i9 13980HX, 32gb ram, and RTX 4080. It was on sale when I bought it, though...
X14R2 sounds like a Star Wars droid
OR AN 80'S German turbo Ford XR4TI
@@79huddy had to look that one up. That car is a beast! 175 hp from the late 80s! Reminds me of the old Cosworth Escorts.
Picked up an M18 R1 AMD from Best Buy and it’s been great. $1800 before taxes. The trick with Alienware is never buy new models, let them work out the bugs and save some money.
probes are tested on the david does bud stuff chanel
For some reason i am obssesed with alienware laptops, i am never gonna buy one but the videos reviewing these old laptops are so darn entertaining to watch
one usb-a port? thats bullshit
I thought the laptop on the thumbnail was a Microsoft surface at first.
I miss hearing you say, "Linoooooooooode."
the x16 r1 is a monster. ive loved it
In this day and age you just paying for the brand
The positive thing about this laptop is that Nvidia officially admitted that AD107 is a 50-series GPU.
Had to go back and do a double-take when I saw that AIO linked to the window ac. 😂
I’d rather have any sort of USB-C dock with Ethernet than having to plug in and unplug EVERYTHING from the back. You can literally get a good one for just 160 CAD or so, that has lots of USB ports, Ethernet, audio input and output, and etc depending on which brand.
Alienware desktop vs Alienware laptop: coughing baby vs coughing baby
New windows install yes.
But - I would very much recommend putting Alienware commander back on afterwards - there's a not small pile of dead m17 and x15 machines in a storage cupboard somewhere at the office where someone didn't do that
The Xenomorph head should probably be blurred out, too, in my opinion. People have some weird fetishes. Lol
Alienware's design is still cool!
I have a x14 R1 that I bought about a year and a half ago, and they have defiantly cheeped out on the build quality. My R1 doesn't have any of the plastic bits on it or the major chassis flex that this one displayed. Over all I have been very happy with the x14 R1 that I have.
I've had power delivery issues with laptops, and it's mainly because of the power profiles applied by the vendors. Clean Windows install or not, the way around this is to enable the default Windows power profiles. Most gaming laptops will have the "Ultimate Performance" profile hidden and bypassed by the vendor's power profile. Under the vendor's power profile, cpu and gpu don't reach their manufacturer advertised power delivery so that the vendor can sell their "great sound and cooling performance" by simply under powering the components. Yes, you'll probably get more fan noise, but that's because the fans are doing what they're supposed to. I've had Dell, ASUS and Gigabyte laptops, and they all disable the Ultimate Performance profile. Once I enabled it I had more steady power to both cpu and gpu, actually reaching their respective limits, which reduces stuttering during gameplay. Side note, the only issue I see with the Alienware/Dell laptops is the cooling design. Having to pull the whole motherboard out just to change thermal pads and paste is just dumb.
One thing I rarely see mentioned that dell does very well is warranty support. The alienwares come with on site support, which I have taken advantage of in the past and is pretty good. Maybe do a video testing their warranty support? It has to be better than asus.
Me: "Today, Dawid will not hit me with a brand-new nonsensical insult to technology which not only comes out of left field but fits flawlessly... It's not possible."
Dawid: "Plague Ridden Goblin Sharks"
Me: "GOD...FUCKING...DAMN IT!"
Dawid, I watch your videos when I get sad. And it helps. Sorry that got weird.