


Left: 1X USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A, headphone/mic comboīack: 2X USB-C with Thunderbolt 4 and 15W PD, 1X USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A, HDMI 2.1, miniDP 1.4, DC-in, full size SD slotĨ6 Wh, 330 W charger(old school brick style)ģ68.9 mm or 14.5” (w) x 289.9 mm or 11.41” (d) x 25.4 mm or 1” (h)īacklit keyboard(RGB per key), FHD webcam with IR, stereo speakers, vapor chamber cooling, SD card reader, tiny trackpadĭell offers this series in multiple configurations, with various amounts of RAM/storage, with i7/i9 Core HX processor, RTX 4060 to RTX 4090 GPUs, and a few different display options. Killer AX1675i Wifi 6E with Bluetooth 5.2, Killer 2.5G ethernet

Intel Iris Xe + Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 with 12GB of DDR6 VRAM, 175W TGPġ6 GB DDR5 4800Mhz (2x 8GB DIMMS) – 2x DIMMsġx 1TB M.2 NVMe gen4 (Hynix PC801) + extra slots (2x 2280, 2x 2230 slots) Here are my thoughts after my testing.ġ6 inch, 2560×1600 px, IPS, 240 Hz, 3ms, MUX switch, 100% DCI-P3 Unfortunately, I only got to spend about a week and a half with this laptop, but it’s certainly enough to get a good impression of it – especially since the design is so close to what it was before. It also looks like they fixed some of the previous gripes I had with the last two models too. The good news is they can’t mess up the screen because pretty much all the 16:10 16” panels are QHD and are excellent. Of course, how could it not be – it has the latest and greatest hardware, right?īut I am excited to see what this laptop is all about. It’s a fresh new chassis with a familiar design and it brags to be the most powerful Alienware laptop to date. At the time, things like not having a QHD option or Optimus made the r4 less attractive and the overheating issue, inferior build quality, and lack of IO made the r5 completely unacceptable to me.īut now Alienware has joined the 16” laptop club with their brand new Alienware m16 R1 model. Both of those had some good features for sure, and they were released back to back with the r4 being Intel and the r5 being Alienware’s first experiment with a Ryzen processor.īut there were different reasons why I didn’t like either of them and I found it very strange how big of a step back they took with the r5.

It all stems from a couple of years ago when I tested both the Alienware m15 r4 & m15 r5. It’s been a while since I even considered the Alienware series.
