Alienware 15 and 17 mark Dell’s first VR-ready gaming laptops with brand new design

By Joe Osborne

Alienware has finally brought some much needed agility and versatility to its 15- and- 17-inch gaming laptops. Both notebooks have received a massive overhaul not just in components, but chassis design and unique features.

For starters, Dell’s gaming division has drawn liberal inspiration from competitors like Gigabyte’s Aorus series of notebooks, but while maintaining a very obvious identity. The new design sees the screen hinge move a few millimeters forward, toward the keyboard deck, making room for far larger heat vents in the rear and thus an overall thinner profile – by nearly 25%, Alienware claims.

The storied PC gaming firm also opted to improve its keyboard with a set of TactX keys cribbed from its own lineup of desktop gaming keyboards. The new keys offer a deeper 2.2mm of travel for punchier feedback and N-Key rollover, a feature that better registers simultaneous keystrokes to alleviate “ghosting” – or unregistered keystrokes.

There’s plenty to love on the inside, too

Take solace in knowing that the new 15 and 17 laptops will come packing the range of Nvidia’s latest 1000 series of GeForce GTX graphics chips and Intel Skylake processors …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming