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Alienware is a well-known brand in the gaming laptop market, and with each new CPU or GPU update the company outfits its laptops accordingly. Today, we're looking at the Alienware 15 R3, which features the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Pascal GPU. Alienware's design philosophy is one of the most iconic for gaming laptops. It is aggressive, yet sleek and sophisticated. Its sharp, erratic edges and vibrant lighting might best be described as extraterrestrial. Indeed, Alienware's products look like spaceships miniaturized to fit on your desk.
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Prices are inline with similarly configured models from other Marks. How is this overpriced?
 
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Prices are inline with similarly configured models from other Marks. How is this overpriced?
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well, for the price that it's retailing, you get 8GB of RAM which is a joke. If you look at the benchmarks, they are not good for the price you pay and don't forget, you get a 1080p monitor.
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The only good thing about this laptop is the case and that's it.
 
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Not sure how this is considered overpriced. Just purchased one with the 1070, 16Gb or ram and an extra charger for $1600 after rebates plus an additional $180 in store credit . Could have gotten the 120hz screen or the 4k panel for the same price but I wanted the 1080P IPS for the additional battery life. It is actual cheaper than the Sager I priced with the same equipment plus I have the option of 18 months of interest free financing.
 
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Exactly. Did you know my 2015 Alienware 17 R2 has 4 Msata slots? Yeah.
 
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I wasn't speaking of the money side of it. Nearly every post of a gaming laptop posted has a crap ton of negativity. Ohhh you can't overclock it, you cant do this or that. Performance is shat because you can't overclock, heats like a space heater jajajajajaj. Just baffles me the hate when majority of the ones posting haven't a clue of the shear performance laptops can have and the rest of the tech that goes into them .
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I think the thought of mobile gaming is what causes the backlash towards laptops, coupled with them being more expensive, you need a 2k+ laptop just to match a 1-1.5k desktop, and even then the laptop is stuck with its specs, your desktop you can upgrade a few components in a few years and stay ahead of the curve. The only thing i'd ever need a laptop for is to do work related things and a $500 one can suffice. I'm a bit of an oddity too being an IT student and not lugging around a laptop, i simply don't need one, and don't want one.

Gaming laptops are a niche and i see them in the same light as i see macbooks, overpriced machines for what you pay for, macbooks more so.
 
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Yes, laptops cost more that's a given, stop whining and get a better job.

I went to pure mobile gameing systems around the time the ~4xx nvidia gpus came out. I never had second guess weather or not I could play a game, even crysis.
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Most high end laptops have no issues upgrading the cpu, gpu, etc. MXM has been the standard for almost a decade.

I built a desktop last year because there were no single laptop GPUs capable of 4k gaming(basic 980 was the top) Now you can pick up a laptop with a full fledged 1080. Mobil GPUs went 3x as fast overnight. I'm seriously considering selling my desktop now...
 
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I think the thought of mobile gaming is what causes the backlash towards laptops, coupled with them being more expensive, you need a 2k+ laptop just to match a 1-1.5k desktop, and even then the laptop is stuck with its specs, your desktop you can upgrade a few components in a few years and stay ahead of the curve. The only thing i'd ever need a laptop for is to do work related things and a $500 one can suffice. I'm a bit of an oddity too being an IT student and not lugging around a laptop, i simply don't need one, and don't want one.

Gaming laptops are a niche and i see them in the same light as i see macbooks, overpriced machines for what you pay for, macbooks more so.
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You are not stuck with your specs. I can swap cpu,ram,gpu (both gpus as my Titans are sli capable notebooks) 4 msata slots etc. And MSI guarantees upgrade ability on the gpus per revision.
 
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well, for the price that it's retailing, you get 8GB of RAM which is a joke. If you look at the benchmarks, they are not good for the price you pay and don't forget, you get a 1080p monitor.
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The only good thing about this laptop is the case and that's it.
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1080p for 15 inch is totally legit though.
 
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They didn't lie to me. As I own a 1080 sli Titan because I was able to make the trade in lol . And the 980 desktop variant Titan.
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But MSi said that they would provide MXM upgrade boards (not trade in your entire laptop).
 
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well, for the price that it's retailing, you get 8GB of RAM which is a joke. If you look at the benchmarks, they are not good for the price you pay and don't forget, you get a 1080p monitor.
doh.gif


The only good thing about this laptop is the case and that's it.
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1080p on a 13 inch screen is great, actually it is a bit small. Windows scaling still doesnt fix the issue, so 1080p on 13 inch makes windows look tiny.. 1440p would be overkill. And you can get a 1440p screen if you are so inclined.

And 1080p at 13 inch doesnt need AA to look good, which means you need significantly less GPU power. Not to mention that the current mobile chips are amazing from a performance standpoint. Unless you really need everything on ultra, there is nothing these machines cannot play well.

Also, how are these machines not good for what you are paying? you are getting a machine with tons of engineering put into it, with a physical keyboard, built in battery, a plethora of ports, and two M.2 PCIE ports for the same price as comparable machines with lesser specs and cooling systems. Not to mention a nice laptop screen. Those $500-600 laptops, heck even $900 laptops, dont have screens as nice as these gaming ones do, and the price of a comparable desktop monitor is going to push the price fo that desktop build much closer to that of the laptop.
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Yes, laptops cost more that's a given, stop whining and get a better job.

I went to pure mobile gameing systems around the time the ~4xx nvidia gpus came out. I never had second guess weather or not I could play a game, even crysis.
rolleyes.gif


Most high end laptops have no issues upgrading the cpu, gpu, etc. MXM has been the standard for almost a decade.

I built a desktop last year because there were no single laptop GPUs capable of 4k gaming(basic 980 was the top) Now you can pick up a laptop with a full fledged 1080. Mobil GPUs went 3x as fast overnight. I'm seriously considering selling my desktop now...
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Many newer gaming laptops have the CPU and GPU soldered to the mobo. The days of most gaming machines being upgrade-able in the laptop space is coming to an end, unless you get the ridiculously thick DTRs with 30 minutes of battery life.
 
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