Alienware 15 R3 (2016) unboxing (56k no!)

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My AW 15 R3 arrived today, and as requested in another thread, here are some unboxing images.

I'll add more later, once it's finished setting up.

 

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I managed to sneak an order in before the prices went up so I picked up the 15 R3 with i7-6700HQ, 16GB DDR4, GTX 1070 and 1080p 120hz G-Sync display for £1880 inc VAT.

I opted to keep just the base HDD option so it's got 1TB SATA, but has room for M.2 SSD's inside. I felt it'll be cheaper to put my own drives in than bump the price of the laptop to over 2k.

 

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Love the lighting on the side and the trackpad.

That was a major part of my decision making process when buying
You can configure the colour of each strip independently (the alien head logos too).

 

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Thanks for this, loving the classic thread title

Please can I request a good picture of the power adaptor / brick please

Can you put it on a piece of A4 paper or something similar for scale? Dell are useless at supplying information on this as is almost all reviews online and YouTube!

Here you go That's a standard sheet of A4.
It's big, but not the biggest I've seen.

 

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Priced separately you could pick up a Samsung 960 256GB and Samsung 16GB Ram for about £200 so potentially save £43. Not great but you know, every little help

This is exactly why I decided to stick with the 1TB mechanical drive and save a bit of money. It's far cheaper to put your own drives in, and thankfully the way the Alienware is designed maintenance is trivial.

£1800 on a laptop with upgrades possible in the future is a lot more acceptable for the other half than £2000+.

 

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First benchmark. I'm a bit out of touch in benchmarking these days so I have no idea if that's good or not or if 3DMark is even a good tool to use anymore.
Kind of crazy seeing those GPU tests never dropping below 30fps on a laptop!