Great price for this little laptop. I know it's Alienware and they are overpriced but the closest spec to this one on their site is around £1160 so a decent saving here considering the free 3 year warranty too.
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clewis09
9 Jun 1615#45
£900 and you only get a 960m. Whilst they've splurged out on an i7, 16gb of RAM, and a large SSD.
Once again HUKD shows how little it knows about pc gaming.
Very cold.
brooklynbrawler
9 Jun 1610#4
This sort of spec says 'Gaming Laptop', but I personally don't think a screen so small suits gaming. Other people might disagree, but it's not for me...
brooklynbrawler
9 Jun 166#2
Nice spec...would have been all over it if it wasn't for the 13" screen...
ussasx
9 Jun 164#53
Genuine gaming laptops offer a great opportunity for people who don't just want to sit at their desk at home on their own when playing games and when done right have a multitude of benefits. I got rid of my desktop rig and old laptop to invest in a proper gaming laptop and was the best thing i ever did (after being a long time Desktop elitist).
I can play games anywhere in the house, on the train, round my friends houses without any issue. I can also plug three cables in and use my larger monitor, gaming keyboard and mouse at my desk as i always have done.
But for me the issue is how much performance do i sacrifice and how portable does it need to be? Im not taking it on planes everywhere, im not carrying it to work every day - its a true desktop replacement. I have a tablet PC for all that stuff.
So i went Alienware 18 - I7 4810MQ, 16gb Ram, 2 * 8gb GTX 880m's and a 1tb SSD. In benchmarks it beat my i5-4670k and GTX 970 FTW marginally. Benchmarks dont mean all that - Im playing GTA V, Doom and overwatch all on max settings with great frame rates.
AS for this machine - the 960m is very poor when compared to the 970m or even the older 880m for gaming. the U processor is designed for more energy efficiency. Its a nice machine, but not a desktop replacement and i dont think would have great gaming performance over other options. Personally i think Gaming Desktop + All purpose laptop or all out gaming laptop. This is a bit of somewhere in the middle compared to machines like the one below.
Better processor, larger screen, much better GPU, DDR 4 RAM, and weighs the same as the 13" in this post.
Just my two pence - voted hot though as good price if you want this machine :smiley:
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simba2585
9 Jun 161#1
may be able to get a better spec xps 9550 machine for around same money if there are codes still flying about. this is quite a heavy machine at over 2kg.
still a hot deal.
brooklynbrawler
9 Jun 166#2
Nice spec...would have been all over it if it wasn't for the 13" screen...
omgpleasespamme
9 Jun 163#3
Perfect size IMO. A little bigger than A4 so great for packing into a bag with paperwork and more portable than 15.6 inch devices with the same screen resolution.
brooklynbrawler
9 Jun 1610#4
This sort of spec says 'Gaming Laptop', but I personally don't think a screen so small suits gaming. Other people might disagree, but it's not for me...
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Once again HUKD shows how little it knows about pc gaming.
Very cold.
I can play games anywhere in the house, on the train, round my friends houses without any issue. I can also plug three cables in and use my larger monitor, gaming keyboard and mouse at my desk as i always have done.
But for me the issue is how much performance do i sacrifice and how portable does it need to be? Im not taking it on planes everywhere, im not carrying it to work every day - its a true desktop replacement. I have a tablet PC for all that stuff.
So i went Alienware 18 - I7 4810MQ, 16gb Ram, 2 * 8gb GTX 880m's and a 1tb SSD. In benchmarks it beat my i5-4670k and GTX 970 FTW marginally. Benchmarks dont mean all that - Im playing GTA V, Doom and overwatch all on max settings with great frame rates.
AS for this machine - the 960m is very poor when compared to the 970m or even the older 880m for gaming. the U processor is designed for more energy efficiency. Its a nice machine, but not a desktop replacement and i dont think would have great gaming performance over other options. Personally i think Gaming Desktop + All purpose laptop or all out gaming laptop. This is a bit of somewhere in the middle compared to machines like the one below.
Better processor, larger screen, much better GPU, DDR 4 RAM, and weighs the same as the 13" in this post.
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/msi-gs60-6qeghost-pro-063uk-intel-core-i7-6700hq-8gb-1tb-128gb-ssd-nvid-9s7-16h712-063/version.asp?refsource=LDadwords&crtag=LD&refsource=ldadwords&gclid=CLGKlbqem80CFbEy0wod-GIFkg
Just my two pence - voted hot though as good price if you want this machine :smiley:
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still a hot deal.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6500U+%40+2.50GHz
you want a quad core processor for gaming laptop like a i7-6700HQ, has double the processing power.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6700HQ+%40+2.60GHz
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/173-scan-3xs-lg17-performance-gtx-gtx-960m-core-i7-6700hq-8gb-ddr3-250gb-ssd-1tb-hdd-win-10?utm_source=google+shopping&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=Cj0KEQjwhN-6BRCJsePgxru9iIwBEiQAI8rq88ww4xW_Rw_Jr01NxoQwsQNMprPEyejip80xsuqWItcaApKU8P8HAQ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Notebook-i7-6700HQ-Integrated-Bluetooth/dp/B017PE18IQ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zenbook-UX501VW-DS71T-HID1-i7-6700HQ-2-6-3-5GHz-Touchscreen/dp/B0190DG32G