The hinge itself actually sticks out of the top of the notebook in a design I can't recall seeing, well, ever.
When you open the Alienware 13, you see the machine isn't hinged from the back but rather from a spot a bit more than an inch in front of those heat sink grilles. It looks less like a laptop and more like something you would put your laptop on. None of these surfaces are flush with one another. When closed, the top juts out over the bottom like an inverted trapezoid, which draws only more attention to a two-tone design that features a big grille vent at the rear, a strip of black plastic along the front, and a large metallic panel with a Cylon-esque design in between. The laptop has seemingly been hacked away at, starting at the corners, which have seemingly been trimmed back in an attempt to shave off a few ounces of weight. First, while there are plenty of hard edges on the 13, there are very few right angles. The photo up top tells the story better than my words can, but I'm going to try to paint a picture of it anyway.
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If they didn't, why would they be modding their cases and investing in expensive keyboards with full color backlighting? It's hard to imagine someone of that mindset gravitating to a laptop of such particular ocular dissonance as the Alienware 13.
It's a fallacy to assume gamers don't care about looks. That screen is beautiful, but the rest of the machine is an absolute affront to the eyes. I didn't find a game the 13 couldn't run-or that didn't look exquisite on the Alienware's screen. That's an extreme setup ( $2,100 as configured), and it helps the machine to blast through benchmarks both general and graphical in nature. For this review, the company sent over a top-level configuration of the 13, which outfits the notebook with a 2.8GHz Core i7, 16 gigs of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card. The other specs are beefed up to go along with that 2560 x 1440-pixel OLED touchscreen. It's not only one of the brightest displays I've ever encountered in a laptop, it's also one of the darkest, with ultra-high-contrast blacks that would be black enough for Spinal Tap. If the quality of your laptop's screen is a selling point-and it should have some sway with any serious buyer-then OLED-based machines, what few exist to date, should definitely be on your list.Īlienware's new 13.3-incher is the first gaming rig on the market with an OLED display.
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