Gaming laptops require increasingly efficient components.The implementation of such components reduces their portability, so it represents a real problem both in the case of producers and users.
To play the newest games, you need performance, and this "hangs" in the case of laptopuirlor.While a lot of gaming laptops do not go through this problem, it seems that Alienware has announced two models that are the thinnest so far.The scene appears X15 and X17, and according to the manufacturer, the first is the strongest below 16mm laptop in the world..
To put things in perspective, the ASUS Zephyrus G15 and Razer Blade 15 Advanced, two of the 15 -inch gaming laptops you can buy at this time, have a thickness of 1.95 cm and 1.58 cm, respectively.In the meantime, X17 measures 2.09 cm thick, making it comparable to 1.99 cm Blade Pro 17.
Alienware has done all the work to ensure that X15 and X17 do not "fry" the components, thus, both laptops include four internal fans.The sensors are located in the vicinity of the critical components that are assisted by a program to control each independently.
The company says it has also installed highly effective voltage regulators to help dissipate heat.Models equipped with RTX 3070 come with a special Galiu-Siliciu compound applied to the processor.The company claims that the thermal interface is up to 25% better when transferring heat in a radiator than the solution it used in the previous notebook, M15 R4.
At the same time, they have ventilation holes both at the top and bottom and on the sides of the lower chassis.The result is a design that leaves any computer without many side ports.Both have only one power entry at one end and a headphone jack at the other.In the case of model X15, you have a single USB-A port, two USB-C connections, a microSD slot and an output HDMI 2.1.Meanwhile X17 comes with two USB-C and USB-A ports, a Ethernet jack, a microSD slot and HDMI 2.1 and Displayport 1.4.
The components present "under the hood" of the newest gaming laptops
Regarding the components with which the latest gaming laptops from Alienware come, they present the Intel H series processors, the 11th generation, which were recently announced.Both come equipped with standard I7 11800H with 8 and 16 cores, which you can update to I9 11900H.
Also both wine equipped with a 16GB RAM.In the case of X15, its memory can be improved up to 32GB while in the case of X17, RAM can climb up to 64GB.The storage space starts from 256 GB through a NVME, and with a single SSD, 2 TB is the maximum value.However, you can opt for a dual-drive configuration for 4TB in total.
Things get complicated when you get to 3D cards on each model.Both X15 and X17 come with the RTX 3060 standard and you can pay extra to upgrade to RTX 3070 or RTX 3080.The display options are different in the case of the two laptops, so the X15 offers a FullHD and QHD panel combination.
On X17, there is no QHD option.Instead you can choose a UHD panel that has a 120Hz refresh rate and a 4 MS response time.The brightness is 500 nits and 100% Adobe RGB coverage.The other unique option for the X17 is a keymx keyboard that Alienware says has a distance of 1.8 mm.For connectivity, both computers have WiFi 6E support and Bluetooth 5.2.
According to the manufacturer, each configuration of each laptop will be put up for sale on June 15.Thus X15 will have a starting price of 2.000 dollars while the basic model X17 will start from 2.$ 100.As a comparison point, the RTX 2060 version of the Zephyrus G15 costs 1.$ 500.It is not as spectacular as the new alienware laptops, but you will get a system with a Ryzen 9, 16 GB RAM and 512 GB processor.As a conclusion, for the Alienware X15 and X17 you pay more for being thin and not for their power.