Alienware Laptop

Rannoch · 18 Feb 2017 at 18:04

Anyone have a new Alienware laptop? I'm looking at the 13" with the 1060 and OLED screen.

Been keen to hear any thoughts..

icey_haj · 19 Feb 2017 at 17:44

I've got one.

Wonderful build quality, everything seems nice and solid. Keyboard is nice to type on and the trackpad is decent.

It's virtually silent when not doing anything intensive, just general browsing etc.

Where it really shines is the OLED. OMG, seeing is believing. Playing games on it is so immersive, beautiful clarity and rich deep colours. You will fall in love with it and other laptop screens will seem so inferior after using this.

Also the audio is pretty decent too.

Overall, a highly recommend machine.

Rannoch · 20 Feb 2017 at 13:04

Looks excellent. Just what I'm after.

I had the M11X and that was very quiet when watching movies. Decison time

Genoma · 20 Feb 2017 at 16:00

Icey, what is the battery life like for just doing normal stuff?

icey_haj · 20 Feb 2017 at 16:59

Genoma said:
Icey, what is the battery life like for just doing normal stuff?

Unfortunately, battery life is the one department that this thing lacks in. You're typically looking at around 4 hours or so.

paradigm · 20 Feb 2017 at 17:09

Also looking at these, just put in a good 36 hours of overtime this weekend and was going to treat myself with some of the proceedings!

What are the recharge times like?

icey_haj · 20 Feb 2017 at 18:22

paradigm said:
Also looking at these, just put in a good 36 hours of overtime this weekend and was going to treat myself with some of the proceedings!

What are the recharge times like?

Hmm, never really measured. Normally just charge it up over night. Will check over the next day or two.

Lmg80 · 20 Feb 2017 at 18:36

People seem to raise the good old throttling issue the R2's also were affected with - since BGA'ed setups, AW have lost their dominance IMO. There warranty / zero quibble is still the best out there though.

With Steam/Stream even remotely, I fail to see the requirement for gaming laptop these days as in 99% of cases people also have a gaming PC setup too.

paradigm · 20 Feb 2017 at 18:41

Lmg80 said:
With Steam/Stream even remotely, I fail to see the requirement for gaming laptop these days as in 99% of cases people also have a gaming PC setup too.

Erm, not sure how my gaming rig would help me when I'm 300 miles from home on business, and it's powered off. :/

Lmg80 · 20 Feb 2017 at 18:44

paradigm said:
Erm, not sure how my gaming rig would help me when I'm 300 miles from home on business, and it's powered off. :/

remotely turn on surely?

Genoma · 20 Feb 2017 at 18:58

yes I've done this, WOL is your friend

paradigm · 20 Feb 2017 at 19:13

But why would I want to? Why would I want to run up my own power bill to stream over a poor hotel wifi or 3G connection when I can just play locally on my laptop?

Seems daft.

Genoma · 20 Feb 2017 at 19:15

because you don't have to invest £1000s in a high power / heavy laptop to do it and it works reasonably well.

icey_haj · 20 Feb 2017 at 19:48

Temps are alright, if not a quick repaste is simple enough.

Oh and if streaming was reliable enough, I don't think there would be much of a need for gaming laptops.

slap ed · 20 Feb 2017 at 20:31

i ordered my aliemware 13 r3 with oled screen on 13th of feb , got an eta of 27th :-0
i can't wait

Lmg80 · 20 Feb 2017 at 21:48

paradigm said:
But why would I want to? Why would I want to run up my own power bill to stream over a poor hotel wifi or 3G connection when I can just play locally on my laptop?

Seems daft.

Genoma said:
because you don't have to invest £1000s in a high power / heavy laptop to do it and it works reasonably well.

This + your laptop will be obselete with zero upgrade options as I assume the R3's are all BGA'ed as was the R2 ergo limited to storage/ram and wifi upgrades only whereas a remote solution will be; your argument of cost makes no sense. :/

To your second point given most games have some sort of 'online' element even to the point that you have to connect to their servers to play makes your last point redundant as well.

FYI - I stream to a Surface pro and it works very well - cost £380, portability awesome

icey_haj · 20 Feb 2017 at 22:05

Lmg80 said:
This + your laptop will be obselete with zero upgrade options as I assume the R3's are all BGA'ed as was the R2 ergo limited to storage/ram and wifi upgrades only whereas a remote solution will be; your argument of cost makes no sense. :/

To your second point given most games have some sort of 'online' element even to the point that you have to connect to their servers to play makes your last point redundant as well.

FYI - I stream to a Surface pro and it works very well - cost £380, portability awesome

Alienware Amp pretty much solves the upgrade problem - at least for a couple of years or so.

Lmg80 · 20 Feb 2017 at 22:12

Because that's a nice portable solution haha....Maybe you can just take your pc with you??

Does the amp utilise the entire bandwidth of pcie these days via their proprietary IO

icey_haj · 21 Feb 2017 at 00:40

Lmg80 said:
Because that's a nice portable solution haha....Maybe you can just take your pc with you??

Does the amp utilise the entire bandwidth of pcie these days via their proprietary IO

Not quite, I believe it's only x4. Still, performance is pretty good.

Rannoch · 21 Feb 2017 at 10:29

Looking to pull the trigger today. Been haggling with Dell on chat, can get it for £1700 inc delivery. Anyone had a better price?