10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10870H (8-Core, 16MB Cache, up to 5.0GHz Max Turbo Frequency)
Windows 10 Home English
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NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6
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32GB DDR4 2933MHz
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1TB PCIe M.2 SSD
The Alienware X15 is probably closer to the blade 14 than the M15 lineup in terms of portability, but even then it isn't really close. A Blade 15 would probably be somewhere in the middle of the two, and you can pick up a 3070 version for around the same price as this model. An Aero 15 with a 3070 is around $2600 if you are looking for something a bit cheaper with similar power if you are willing to go with 16GB Ram.
The Asus Zephyrus G14 is the closest competitor to the Blade 14 if portability is your priority, but it really doesn't match it for power. These were just off a quick search, you can probably find them cheaper:
https://www.wireless1.com.au/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-ga401qm-k…
https://www.jw.com.au/gigabyte-aero-15-15-6-full-hd-144hz-ga…
https://www.wireless1.com.au/razer-blade-15-base-model-15-6i…
if you're after portability, get the Blade 14 or the G14
if you're after the best bang for your buck, I'd suggest the Legion 5 Pro.
Legion has a 140TDP version of RTX 3070. Check that before purchasing :)
Razer Blade is such a waste of money for its performance. And Gigabyte isn't that good in terms of build quality when compared to ROG. so I'd pick ROG over the other 2 laptops and secondly the Razer blade for its rigid aluminium CNC construction.
Zephyrus G14 looks good, but no webcam? Annoying for work from home use
If I’m working from home, I usually have an external monitor with webcam mounted anyway, so shouldn’t be a big problem.
Razer blade is limited to its TGP (90) to maintain the heating and thin form factor. Even though both laptops have the same RTX 3070, the Razer Blade is low powered.
Plus sides of the Razer blade are lightweight, CNC aluminium body, better display. But if you're looking for purely performance for what you pay, go with Alienware R4 series.
No doubt in relation to both of your comments. Power vs. Portability is a sliding scale, OP would just need to decide how much he cares about each.
This M15 would be a great buy if portability isn't a huge concern (I own the R5 variant), but if the Blade 14 is what he has in mind as a starting point this is pretty far from that.
I have bad experience with alienware laptop - bought my r3 15 few years ago and had blue screens a few months in.
then had to replace the keyboard due to RGB not working shortly after
after the 2-year warranty expired I had to replace the motherboard because apparently the screen just went black completely, would've cost couple hundred bucks but dell repaired for free
and now the laptop speaker has this weird sound issue occasionally, like static alarm noise on full volume which gives me heart attack exactly like this one however i'm out of warranty so cannot get them to fix so I've been just disabling the default speakers and using external speakers instead
Older generation CPU and only 15" screen. Not a good buy at this price.
Gaming laptop kinda sucks. Mainly, you can build an upgradable gaming PC for the price of a mid-range priced gaming laptop. And buy a Macbook (durable and Portable) While, the Gaming PC gives you more power and flexibility to upgrade as required.
Gaming laptops are good for students or content creators who are on the roads.
In the one comment you say they suck and then talk about who they'd be good for. Do you assume there aren't any students or traveling content creators on OzB?
Beds are really crap because they can't transport you places like a car, and very few have radios built in, or storage space for a picnic basket. Beds are good for if you want to sleep, though.
I sleep in a racing car, do you?
Everything has pros and cons. One can find the benefits of using a gaming laptop but the other can't. That's why I tried to explain solutions according to their requirement.
Honestly, I used to play games so hard 6-7 years ago. And recently, I want to buy a laptop. So I thought of buying a gaming laptop. Laptops isn't fully customizable( so many options. Even secondhand items)
. I mostly used my laptop for studies and programming. So buying a gaming laptops isn't the best option if I need to upgrade in the future. Hopefully I can switch to RTX 4000 series in 2022 or 2023. So It all depends on your requirements and budget.
So I posted this for the people who required a gaming laptop. It's not my personal choice :)
This is the last Alienware model to have the Alienware Graphics Amplifier port.
Not sure how useful it is with the amplifier discontinued and no official support for new GPUs (though it still runs the latest GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD despite not being officially supported, currently have an RTX3070 installed in mine using with a m15 R1)
It would have been nice to get a new graphics amplifier model that supports PCIe 4.0 and maybe more lanes but I guess it wasn't popular enough to continue
I didn't know that before :)
Yeah it's a pretty cool feature. Adds a decent level of upgradeability to the laptop.
A bit of bottleneck running at PCIe 3.0 x4 but much better than a thunderbolt 3 eGPU
I suspect the amplifier isn't widely known let alone utilised even among Alienware owners.
It had a pretty good run, launching in 2014 and discontinuing this year. Still a shame to see it discontinued
Yes, I did a small research about it and yes, it's pretty cool.
Is it worth comparing something like this to, say, a Razer Blade 14? I'm looking for something powerful enough to run CAD applications but that has decent battery life as well and can be slightly portable