this isn't hey what is this this is a new this is last year's Alienware m15
made things then made it small and apparently the looks a little bit too
much for some people who thought you know what I'm an alien or a fan I like
the old looks or I like a different look let's do something different well you
were heard you and this year we have the brand new Alienware m15 as you can see
the styling is very reminiscent of the big ol area 51 M it has the rounded
exhaust ports it has the LEDs a little hard to see right down this lighting
looks nice I really like that LEDs nice let's look at the bottom because you
like it look honeycomb the honeycomb hexagons
vents that we also saw in the area 51 very nice very nice it's also really
thin but there's a lot more to this laptop than just how it looks folks
because it's what's inside that matters let's get to the keyboard this is
actually very important Alienware said you know what gaming keyboards and
laptops percy thin laptops silicon of stink some people have tried to put in
those thin canopies those things stink to today what they said is they went in
and tuned and design a keyboard so you would get a really good tactile feedback
it is still rubber dome it is not mechanical but I will tell you I've used
mechanical thin keyboards they're not that great this one when you type on it
that's a really good bunch of it has a really good bump to it I'm gonna I'm
gonna type of course you can't see you're just seeing the type present oh
you it just has a really good that actuation point feels almost mechanical
to me it's just good but it's definitely not a mechanical keyboard as and you'd
get from a full-size keyboard but this is pretty nice travels improved the
older m15 had 1.4 millimeters travel the new one has 1.7 millimeters so inside
the only where said we put in Intel's brand new 8 core CPU so core i9
is basically the the unlock part of the 8 core ninth gen part and they'll run
everywhere from gtx 1650 if you want it all the way up to
2080 max-q of course I know of course everybody the internet Amelie says oh
this thing is all gonna be a blow here no luck so it's gonna throttle all kinds
of stuff I know I know I asked they only were how are you gonna handle it and
said well one things they did is they redesigned the power delivery on this
laptop so that they can drive the CPU and the GPU harder than they could on
the previous design in fact they're saying they're seeing basically the CPU
run at five point two gigahertz let me say that again folks 5.2 gigahertz
single-threaded obviously without throttling so that's pretty decent so
you're gonna throw in a twenty eighty also just for cooling they put they
basically put a power of thermal budget of 100 watts for the GPU 45 watts for
the CPU so it's probably gonna run pretty hard for Street options kind of
like the current Alienware area 51 M it's crazy you get everything you get
everything from 60 Hertz fhd all the way up to 240 Hertz as well as 4k OLED with
a new blue light remover feature that's pretty cool what
kind of upgrades there for the 17 - 17 it's essentially a bigger version of it
both of the ethernet options one gigabit or 2.5 Gigabit I'm gonna guess it's
killer parts let's look at the 17 so if if an area area 51 is too big for you
this is pretty thin oh and far as thickness the previous m15 was about 22
millimeters this one's about 17 millimeters or sorry 20 millimeters
there's a certain point where it is 17 millimeters so it is pretty thin roughly
5 pounds let's also get into what's inside because I know people like to
talk about upgrading these things to make it this then one compromise alien
word did was they went away from sodium's you know modules that you could
pull the memory in and out the memory is soldered down on the board which means
you're not gonna be able to change it right folks they did make available to
em about two slots and they are on the bottom so you could pull the bottom off
and put in a bigger 2 terabyte m2 SSD when you want to but the memory is gonna
be permanent keep in mind today one the options for memory will be 8 gigs or 16
I know that's gonna be a needle stop for needle scratch for some they do say that
yeah we are gonna get to 1632 but we need the memory technology to get there
so definitely get the 16 gig folks oh one last thing
it also has the option for Toby eye tracker on the top-end screens you can
buy it if you buy the 4k you buy the 240 Hertz you gonna OLED for the Tobii eye
tracker now not available on the bottom and also a full Microsoft precision
trackpad drivers and let's get into the price they both start at $14.99 and of
course as you pile on options is it going to get more expensive so
everywhere from i-5 all the way up to core I 9 and everywhere from 1650 GTX
1650 all the way up to an RT X 2080 you can order in June 11th and you'll be
able to get it on July 1st I can't wait to get one in I am very interested to
see if the 8 core Core I 9 can really do what they say well in this laptop 5.2 is
a lot so let's see if we can do it also I think people will like the new
redesign of the redesign or the redesign of the redesign yeah I like it I didn't
mind the old one myself obviously some people didn't like it oh and also no G
sync option interestingly the whole idea is we want give you a decent battery
life and I think the battery capacity is about 77 watt hours I'm fairly decent so
you're gonna get you know 4 or 5 hours of use out of it probably you know
g-sync really does kill battery because you've got the GPU and all the time that
doesn't happen with this laptop cool alright can't wait to see it