New Alienware laptops

Alienware M17 R5. © Dell.

Dell announced the release and immediate availability (in the United States at least) of three laptops: a new version of the Dell G15 (15.6-inch screen), the Alienware M15 R7 (15.6-inch screen), and the Alienware M17 R5 (17.3-inch screen). Among several impressive features, each of these setups is equipped with AMD 6000 series processors, DDR5 RAM and Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti graphics cards as the default option. Intel-based versions will likely be forthcoming later in 2022.

As far as Alienware, the base models of the M15 (1,260 USD) and M17 (1,600 USD) include 16GB of 4800MHz DDR5 RAM, but with two SO-DIMM slots, both laptops support up to 64GB. In terms of storage, the lower-end models have a single storage option that starts with 256GB NVMe M.2 SSDs, going up to 2TB. But if you opt for a RTX 3060 or higher configuration, you’ll have dual storage options, supporting up to 4TB of storage. As usual with Dell computers, configuration possibilities are plentiful. You can push the configuration of the M17 to the max with an RTX 3080 Ti, 64GB of RAM, 2 SSDs of 2TB each, but that will cost you 3,900 USD.

⇨ The Verge, Cameron Faulkner, “Alienware’s 2022 gaming laptops are going big on AMD.”

2022-04-21