Hands-on review: Alienware 17

By Kevin Lee

Since Nvidia’s latest generation of Pascal graphics came to laptops, we’ve been seeing a ton of upgraded gaming notebooks come out of the wood work. But while hardware refreshes are great, we still have yet to see something truly new.

That is until now.

The new Alienware 17 is the first portable rig designed specifically to unleash the true potential of Nvidia’s new 10 series GPUs. Alienware pulled all the stops to completely revamp its flagship 17-inch gaming laptops including a new chassis design, reengineered cooling and newly added Tobii eye-tracking too.

Design

Alienware’s laptops have steadily been moving towards thinner designs and the new series takes a dramatic step towards slimness. To get here the company completely redesigned the internal cooling system. While heatsinks normally reside underneath the keyboard, what Alienware has done now is shifted them to the rear of the machine and behind the hinge.

This ‘Hinge Forward’ design, as Alienware calls it, has helped produce some of the thinnest devices in history including the Dell’s cult-classic Adamo and, more recently, the HP Spectre.

Adding to the Alienware 17’s new found thinness is a much flatter and sharper design. Every curved edge first started …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac