Alienware's Big Redesign Gaming Laptops

At CES Alienware announced a major redesign, featuring devices with soft-touch plastic, curved[[curved what?], and an overall look that is meant to be less aggressive with its gamer aesthetics. Alienware's enormous and enormously powerful Area-51M, a laptop that starts at $ 2,150 and requires a significant emotional investment in its price and size. This is the most user-friendly redesign is trickling down to the thinner m15 and m17, and at first glance, this looks like one of the slickest gaming laptops we've seen.

At 20.5mm, it's 0.5mm thicker than HP's new dual-screen gaming laptop, and 1.5mm thicker than Razer's 15-inch Blade. What it has that those devices lack is a wider variety of displays options. The standard model will come with a 60Hz 1080p display, but you can also opt for a 144Hz or 240Hz 1080p gold display for a 60Hz 4K OLED display that also has Tobii eye tracking built in.

Notably, none of the G-Sync support displays. This is by design, according to Dell. G-Sync displays require the GPU always be on, which can negatively impact battery life.

GPU-wise the m15 will be outfitted with an Nvidia GTX 1650 or 1660 TI, or the RTX 2060, and for more power, there's also the option for the RTX 2070 or 2080, both of which are Max-Q design products, which they will sacrifice a little power and performance for better battery life, and a less work from the fans.

For the processor, you'll be able to choose from different 9th-Gen Intel CPUs-the i5-9300H, i7-9750H, i9-9880H, or the overclockable i9-9980HK.

If a 15.6-inch laptop is too small, the same design changes to the larger m17. It has 17.3-inch display-but there will be two display options available, or a 60Hz 1080p display or a 144Hz 1080p display that will also include Tobii eye tracking and low light blue technology.

What is the heck is low light technology? It's the newest buzzword from laptop makers. Most shows hit your eyes with a lot of blue light. This is how it's done to keep you awake-so it's great at 8 am, but can not get away from it. blue light, so your circadian rhythm is not shot to hell.

The blue light technology found in the Dell laptops, Eyesafe, does things differently. It claims to block the blue light in the display itself. The catch is what it does so without affecting what colors you see. So instead of looking at a yellow screen, you would be with the glasses or the software, you're just looking at a normal display with lots less invisible blue light.

We will not know if it works until we get to spend some time with the laptop (and subject it to a few tests). The Alienware m15 and m17 should be available June 11, and they'll both start at $ 1,500.