Alienware Laptop
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Soldato
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.
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.
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Icey, what is the battery life like for just doing normal stuff?
Soldato
Unfortunately, battery life is the one department that this thing lacks in. You're typically looking at around 4 hours or so.
Caporegime
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?
What are the recharge times like?
Soldato
Hmm, never really measured. Normally just charge it up over night. Will check over the next day or two.
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.
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.
Caporegime
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?
Associate
yes I've done this, WOL is your friend
Caporegime
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.
Seems daft.
Associate
because you don't have to invest £1000s in a high power / heavy laptop to do it and it works reasonably well.
Soldato
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.
Oh and if streaming was reliable enough, I don't think there would be much of a need for gaming laptops.
Associate
i ordered my aliemware 13 r3 with oled screen on 13th of feb , got an eta of 27th :-0
i can't wait
i can't wait
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
Soldato
Alienware Amp pretty much solves the upgrade problem - at least for a couple of years or so.
Soldato
