The Alienware 17 Laptop Appreciation Thread

MrFunex · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:14

waldaize said:
How long did it take others to get their outlet units in the UK? I've a delivery date of Tuesday but it's still 'in production'. I assumed the unit was already built...crazy Dell

Mine was exactly the same. Took about a week to arrive.

Teknobry · 27 Apr 2017 at 15:26

waldaize said:
How long did it take others to get their outlet units in the UK? I've a delivery date of Tuesday but it's still 'in production'. I assumed the unit was already built...crazy Dell

Think I ordered mine on the thursday and received it either monday or tuesday.

Neil King · 27 Apr 2017 at 22:54

Just bought the 6700/1070 with 1080p IPS for £1233 with 15% off code on Dell Outlet.

Couldn't wait for 6820/1080's to come in and 1070 with 1080p will be ok for 3 to 5 years, also if i get a LG panel it has great colour reproduction.

Rannoch · 28 Apr 2017 at 10:23

Sounds good mate.

waldaize · 28 Apr 2017 at 10:47

Went from PROD to SHIPPING overnight and is out for delivery, touch and go as to whether I am in.....sod's law

Might have to wait until tomorrow and pick it up from the depot.

Neil King · 28 Apr 2017 at 21:39

Vargas said:
Sounds good mate.

Thanks mate, the Alienware 17 R4's are proving to be very popular today on Dell Outlet, the six 1060's/1070's that were left have all sold out, probably due to the fabfriday 20% off code.

waldaize · 3 May 2017 at 09:20

So initial thoughts on the 17 R4 6820 1080 I bought from the outlet.

It's a tank, really substantiable and well put together. I love the keyboard, keys are responsive and a good feel and no flex or wiggle to be found. Really can't fault the build quality although could do with more USB ports...dont get the lack of these but I've a 4 port extension dongle thing so not an issue.

Screen is the 120hz QHD. I really like it after some tweaks/calibration. There is striping but I have to get reeeeeallllly close to even notice, from normal viewing distance either desktop and games I can't notice it...was worried here but happy on receipt.

Fan noise.. .yes they fire up when gaming but not unobtrusive or annoying. All good.

Performance.. .really can't complain

Temp wise it's hitting 80-83 on the CPU playing WOW or Overwatch. I'm fine with that for now but will repaste sometime in the future.

Really happy with the purchase and given it's a 32Gb 2400 DDR and 512Gb .m2 SSD model and was 1800 all in...really can't complain

MrFunex · 3 May 2017 at 11:21

Awesome! Glad you like it!

internetuser · 3 May 2017 at 16:50

Well, bite the bullet last week on the dell out let.

got a 17R4 i7-6820HK CPU, GTX1080 8Gb and 16Gb RAM, 1TB m2 SSD, and a 1TB HDD and the 1440p screen. It had 15% off the outlet on the day, so I paid £1785 for it delivered, and then I emailed them to say I wanted to return it, and they knocked another £180 off, so £1605 in total

I wanted the 32gb, but I can buy more memory easy enough in the long term.

The temps and noise are not to bad, the TN Gsync panel isn't the best but for the price I can live with it, esp with the excellent warranty.

To buy new from Dell the above was nearly 3k ! due to the 1TB m2 SSD

Teknobry · 3 May 2017 at 19:05

wow you got a bargain there! why did you want to return it?

internetuser · 3 May 2017 at 19:08

Dell tend to offer you 10% rebate if you want to return it. So it was a way to get more discount.

Teknobry · 3 May 2017 at 19:09

internetuser said:
Dell tend to offer you 10% rebate if you want to return it. So it was a way to get more discount.

haha, genius! wish i'd known that when i got mine a couple of months ago.

Neil King · 9 May 2017 at 23:00

Damn! Just checked with HWINFO and it says i have an AU Optronics panel, has some light bleed and is kinda grainy.

internetuser · 10 May 2017 at 06:16

If it's grainy check the scaling. By default it's 150%. Change it to 100% and it will be crystal clear.

Light bleed is the bezel isn't stick down correctly.

I think the panel you have is one of the new ones.

Teknobry · 10 May 2017 at 06:43

Neil King said:
Damn! Just checked with HWINFO and it says i have an AU Optronics panel, has some light bleed and is kinda grainy.

can always get it replaced under warranty.

Neil King · 11 May 2017 at 15:57

internetuser said:
If it's grainy check the scaling. By default it's 150%. Change it to 100% and it will be crystal clear.

Light bleed is the bezel isn't stick down correctly.

I think the panel you have is one of the new ones.

Thanks very much, yes looks better now, how do you feel it compares to the LG IPS 1080p panel they were once using?

Teknobry said:
can always get it replaced under warranty.

Thanks mate, the light bleed is still a problem, would they send around an engineer to attach a new panel?

internetuser · 11 May 2017 at 16:11

Neil King said:
Thanks very much, yes looks better now, how do you feel it compares to the LG IPS 1080p panel they were once using?

Thanks mate, the light bleed is still a problem, would they send around an engineer to attach a new panel?

I want to see the IPS myself, since I returned my AW17r4, I am on the hunt for what I want again. I am not sure to go large and get the best I can for around with a 1080 for £1900 or get a 1070 for £1200.

I know neither will do 4k well so I want what I buy to max out 1440 or 1080 for the next 3 / 4 years.

waldaize · 11 May 2017 at 16:15

My QHD 17 R4 panel was the original AUO panel with striping. Logged a ticket with DELL support Monday, tech came yesterday fitted the new AUO panel..revision 1.4, original was 0.0....easy peasy, took 15mins. New panel is better and no striping \o/

+1 For Dell

MrFunex · 6 Jun 2017 at 10:31

Great buy - which screen option did you get?