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February 2017
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The editors liked
Under gaming (Ahes Of Singularity)
Clocks remain maximal
Very good keyboard and touchpad
Very comfortable and quiet
Relatively bright IPS display
With high contrast. No PWM (no flickering)
Good connection ports selection mDP v1.2
HDMI 2.0
Alienwar
Incredibly sturdy construction
Clean and sophisticated design
Fairly thin (just 25 mm)
Good keyboard and touchpad
Good IPS panel
Supports up to 3 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs
Not a bad cooling solution considering the form factor and the demanding hardware
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Topnotch build quality
Cooling solution
Outstanding build quality
Impressive LED customization
120Hz refresh rate
Great gaming performance
Excellent cooling
Sturdy high-end build
Fantastic 1080p gaming performance
Boatload of storage
Nice lighting and design
High quality materials and looks
Slim albeit heavy. Good internal temps
Great keyboard
Has Thunderbolt 3 and Graphics Amplifier support
Solid build quality
Excellent keyboard and touch pad
Customizable RGB lighting
Factory-configurable
Plenty of ports
Fits into a normal size backpack—sort-of
Desktop level performance in a laptop
120 Hz screen great for gaming
High frame rates in most games
No performance loss over time
Easy to access internals for repairs and upgrades
Very fast storage drive
Attractive design with lots of customizable lighting. Highly configurable hardware options offer both value and performance. Solid 1080p gaming experience from Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060. Supports Windows Hello
Fast and powerful
Excellent build quality
Great screen for high performance gameplay
A lot of features (macro keys
Eye tracking
Etc.)
Clever port layout
Many hardware options
Numerous illumination elements
Reference-class case quality
Handy Alienware tools
Pretty simple maintenance
Good input devices
Very high performance
120-
IPS screen
NVMe SSD
Eye Tracking
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Clever port distribution
A lot of configuration options
A lot of lighting elements
Great case quality
Useful Alienware tools
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The editors didn't like
Relatively high price for the offered performance (but there will be discounts probably)
The 2.0 speakers are a little bit of disappointment not too bad
But certainly far from high quality
The Alienware styling could be a little too much for some
CPU
CPU and GPU underclocked by default
Third party software needs to be installed for overclocking
A bit loud under load
Heavy (3.5 kg)
G-Sync is optional and most units come with only 60Hz displays
The screen uses PWM from 0 to 99% brightness (our Heal
Cramped keyboard
Color and grayscale accuracy
CPU bottlenecks
Cramped typing experience
No Number Pad
Plastic interior shroud prohibits easy access to the motherboard
TN panel is inaccurate
Expensive for a GTX 1070 laptop
Very expensive as configured
Maximum 1080p resolution
Heavy for a 15-inch laptop
Large footprint and very heavy for a 15" gaming laptop. Windows Hello/Tobii IR camera is flakey
Chassis gets warm
Fans a little loud while gaming
Subpar speakers
No SD-card reader
Still much larger than other 15-inch laptops
Hinge is an inconvenient eyesore
Mediocre battery life
Gets hot and loud under load
Heavy chassis with a beefy
Loud and largely ineffective cooler. 3 to 5 FPS slower than a similar GTX 1060 laptop we tested. GTX 1070 model can be expensive
Published: 2016-12-14, Author: Tim , review by: techspot.com
Attractive design with lots of customizable lighting. Highly configurable hardware options offer both value and performance. Solid 1080p gaming experience from Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060. Supports Windows Hello
Heavy chassis with a beefy, loud and largely ineffective cooler. 3 to 5 FPS slower than a similar GTX 1060 laptop we tested. GTX 1070 model can be expensive
Under gaming (Ahes Of Singularity), clocks remain maximal, Very good keyboard and touchpad, very comfortable and quiet, Relatively bright IPS display, with high contrast. No PWM (no flickering), Good connection ports selection mDP v1.2, HDMI 2.0, Alienwar
Relatively high price for the offered performance (but there will be discounts probably), The 2.0 speakers are a little bit of disappointment not too bad, but certainly far from high quality, The Alienware styling could be a little too much for some, CPU
Well, the AW15R3 is a fine laptop, with good chassis build quality, keyboard, touchpad, relatively good display (no PWM), many connection and storage ports (including Thunderbolt 3 and Alienware amplifier port). However, it is pretty heavy compared to som...
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Published: 2016-11-19, Author: Alexander , review by: tomshardware.com
Topnotch build quality, Cooling solution
Cramped keyboard, Color and grayscale accuracy, CPU bottlenecks
The Alienware 15 R3 features solid construction and impressive cooling, but this particular model delivered less than stellar CPU-bound metric and gaming performance because of its i5 CPU. - MORE: Gaming Laptop Previews MORE: All Laptop Conte...
High quality materials and looks, slim albeit heavy. Good internal temps, great keyboard, has Thunderbolt 3 and Graphics Amplifier support
Large footprint and very heavy for a 15" gaming laptop. Windows Hello/Tobii IR camera is flakey
Alienware laptops have grown up in looks and are modernized--gone is the ultra-chunky and aggressive look. We welcome the modern cooling design and lower heat internals that are very 2016, and the (dare I say) classy looking aluminum and soft touch black...
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Abstract: Lisa Gade reviews the updated version of the Alienware 15 R3, refreshed with Intel 7th generation Kaby Lake CPUs. We look at the model with the Core i7-7700HQ, NVIDIA GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB 7200 RPM HDD and a 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD. There's...
Abstract: Lisa Gade reviews the late 2016 Alienware 15 R3 with NVIDIA Pascal 10 series graphics. Both the NVIDIA GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 cards are available. The Alienware is slim for a gaming laptop at 1” (25.4mm) but not terribly light at 7.7 lbs. (3.4kg). The lapt...
Two inches makes a world of difference, though. I couldn't see using the Alienware 17 as my day-to-day laptop. All 17-inch machines are huge, but a 17-inch machine that's still over an inch thick and weighs 9.5 pounds? No way.The Alienware 15 probably wou...
The Alienware 15 makes the most of its components, and it has a well-designed lighting scheme. Plus, it comes with a decent G-Sync monitor, and it can drive an external display at a high refresh rate and with G-Sync
It's on the heavy side at 7.8 pounds, the battery life is middling, and its fans are loud
A solid if somewhat uninspiring gaming laptop, the Alienware 15 is a good choice when you need fast performance but not the big screen...
