Alienware 17 Review

Alienware , one of the craziest brands that comes to mind when it comes to gaming on a laptop , has won over time in the eyes of gamers with the quality of the materials it offers in its products and its high gaming performance. On the other hand , Alienware, which allows gamers to create their own ” collection ” laptops, is with us today with its new monster Alienware 17 with many model options.

The Alienware 17, which is fully reinforced with a magnesium alloy frame and has a stylish and provocative appearance supported by aluminum materials, draws attention with its high power technical equipment. We’ll try to talk about all of them, all of their features throughout our review.

The Alienware 17, of course, has a predictable price. For this, let’s not go without mentioning the following question that may immediately come to mind at the beginning of our review. Especially desktop side of the X99 platform and DDR4 ‘s emerged in a period of the game, although high-performance Although the water, how much sense to pay high sums to a laptop? The answer to this question lies in the user’s choice. Of course, our preference will be for the desktop computer at this point. However, those who are compact and do not want to be buried in the case will prefer powerful laptop models such as the Alienware 17. Dell in our countryIn addition to the Alienware 17, which can be obtained from authorized partners of Turkey, there are many brands and models that offer strong gaming performance. Among them, Asus , Monster , MSI , Gigabyte and Toshiba are notable brands. But today, our topic is Alienware 17. Let’s take a closer look at the monster …

Aggressive design

The Alienware 17 , which has a powerful design as well as physically strong with its design , shows that it is special for gamers with each element. The laptop, which has Alienware’s strong logo on its cover, has lighting areas at different points starting from the back and going down to the inside and bottom of the case. Moreover, these lights are not in fixed colors. It is possible to change each of them as you wish. We’ll come back to that shortly.

The Alienware 17 has a large body as well as a powerful look. This means that it has both a thick body and a heavy case. For this reason, it can be troublesome to carry the laptop, which weighs approximately 4 kilograms , with you. It is also necessary to add the adapter you have to take with it. But of course it is portable as a result, so you can throw home-play parties with your friends . By the way, let’s also mention that Alienware is a stylish solution for those who do not want to separate their laptop. Alienware arms and backpacks can be found as accessories in the mold that reflects the aggressiveness of the laptop.

Alienware 17 owns a 17-inch screen. The screen being in matte material prevents it from being affected by reflections. Let’s also say at this point that it has Full HD resolution and got full marks from us with its color saturation. The keyboard and touchpad area under the screen are among the most comfortable we have seen so far. With the quality of the material, we found it very comfortable in terms of use as well as a good feeling when you touch it. Let’s add to this that the touchpad area is illuminated with a color you want so that the design is backed. Our only criticism about the keyboard is that the model we use does not include Turkish characters.

Strong performance

Now let ‘s get to the curious technical staff of Alienware 17 and their impact on performance. At its heart is the Core i7-4910MQ , one of Intel’s powerful processors . This 4-core processor works between 2.90 GHz base and 3.90 GHz ceiling frequencies. The internal graphics processor of the processor, which was released in the first quarter of 2014, is the Intel HD Graphics 4600. Of course, Alienware 17 is not satisfied with this. The laptop, which strengthens the graphics hand with Nvidia GeForce GTX880M , offers 8 GB capacity.

When we look at the RAM capacity, we see exactly 32 GB. The laptop, which also includes SSD as storage space, offers 256 GB SSD for performance and 1 TB HDD for large space. In the meantime, let’s say that the laptop runs with the Windows 8.1 operating system and let’s move on to the performance notes.

With Alienware 17, you can easily play the strongest games of the market right now. We played popular games like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag , Metro: Last Light , Need For Speed and BioShock Infinite as long as we had the laptop at hand . It is possible to say that we got extremely satisfactory results in each of them at the highest level of graphic details.

Let’s share the results of Metro: Last Light Benchmark with you at this point.

So what’s the battery performance of the Alienware 17? There are models that focus on game performance and are also ambitious with battery life. However, it is hard to say that the Alienware 17 is too ambitious in this regard. As a result of our tests, we observed a performance of about 2 hours and 50 minutes . Not bad, but not good either. For example, the battery performance of the Asus G750 can exceed 3 hours and 30 minutes.

Special for players

Now let’s come to the subject of special lighting that we talked about in the design part of our review. Alienware 17 comes with software called Alienware Command Center . Thanks to this software, you have the opportunity to change the lighting in all areas of the laptop as you wish. Alienware Command Center, divided into different sections named AlienFX , AlienTouch , AlienFusion , Alienware TactX and AlienAdrenaline , offers many customization options besides LED lights. It is possible to adjust the LED lights of the laptop with AlienFX. You can do the customization completely yourself, or you can choose one of the ready-made themes here.

If we come to the AlienFusion part, we see that we can do the power planning of the computer here. All power plans are presented in two different tabs, Quick and Advanced Options. AlienTouch is all about touchpad. While typing on the keyboard, you can make the necessary sensitivity settings so that the touchpad is not affected by the contact of your hand, and you can configure other settings related to the use of the touchpad. Alienware TactX is another section where you can assign macros to the A, B, C, D keys that flow right above the numeric keypad on the keyboard.

Finally, let’s talk about AlienAdrenaline and put the point in our review. It is possible to monitor the current performance of the laptop instantly by using AlienAdrenaline. You can see what is happening in the memory, processor, graphics and storage areas from here.