I’m considering investing in a new gaming laptop, and I find the Alienware m18 Gaming Laptop a suitable choice. However, I’m a bit apprehensive to purchase such as a laptop. What are on your opinions on this laptop?
13th Gen Intel® Core™i9 13900HX (24-Core, 36MB L3 Cache, up to 5.4GHz Max Turbo)
Operating System
Windows 11 Home, English, French, Spanish
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 8GB GDDR6
18" QHD+ (2560 x 1600) 165Hz, 3ms, ComfortView Plus, NVIDIA G-SYNC + DDS, 100% DCI-P3, FHD IR Camera
I’m assuming you’re posting here because you’re hoping it’d double as a UE dev machine.
these are top-tier specs for a gaming laptop but you’re also paying extra for mere branding; better value is to be found in a non Alienware machine
that GPU is not out yet (or is it?!); while it’s unlikely to run like a 3-legged dog, I’d wait for some independent benchmarks
8GB vRAM in a what, $3-4k machine oriented at development, is just not good enough - I’d advise to look for a more potent GPU considering everything else in that system
if this is mainly a gaming laptop, why do we need 64GB system RAM?
if it’s for dev, you’d want 4k and drop the redundant 165Hz
yeah that gpu isnt due til, well anytime now, but both the 4060 and the 4070 generally come in the 8gb flavour so suggest at least a 4080 mobile with 12gb vram or even the 3080 mobile with 16gb.
@Everynone is right about alienware being overpriced dells. Not the same since aquisition. they tend to use some sub standard dell issue parts in what appears a hefty looking laptop.
64gb ram would be advantagous for unreal editor itself but even 32 would be suffice.
1tb ssd might not cut it if you planning on a large project too.
Also agree with @Everynone ref 4k output instead of a higher refresh.