Apr 14, 2017 12:40 PM
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It is the best laptop I have ever used it gives good performance and it s vr ready and 4k gaming is good and one important feature it is tobil eye tracker and it is my first alienwear laptop.it has value of money but I give it 4 star because it comes with windows 10 home.Even though the keyboard is set farther back on the deck than I'd like, the soft-touch plastic made it comfortable enough to type on. My only wish is that the keys popped up with more force to match how hard I was pressing them down. I reached 105 words per minute on the 10fastfingers.com typing test, which is just under my 107-wpm average, with my usual 2 percent error rate.Using the GTX 1070 model, I played Mass Effect: Andromeda on a mix of high and medium settings, and the game almost always ran at over 100 frames per second - and often as high as 160 fps - both in combat and conversation scenes, albeit with occasional tearing and rendering issues. I cranked all the settings up as high as they could go, and the game stayed between 70 and 80 fps while in conversations, fell to between 66 and 75 fps while exploring, and dropped to 55 fps during a heated battle.When you're not gaming, you can get some serious work done on either Alienware 17 configuration we tested. First, I tried the lower-end model, which had a 2.8-GHz Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. With that unit, I had 40 tabs open in Google Chrome, two of which were showing off Twitch streams at high quality and never saw a hint of lag. You can expect even better performance from the other model we reviewed, which has a 2.9-GHz Intel Core i7-7820HK, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe SSD and a 1TB
CONFIGURATIONS
-The Alienware 17 R4 is available in a wide variety of configurations, and if you order from Dell, you can even choose the screen(1080p, 2K or 4K), storage drive(s), RAM, CPU and GPU(GTX 1070 or 1080). Whatever you buy, we recommend you avoid the disappointingly slow 128GB SSD and that you spend at least an extra$150 to configure it with a 256GB PCIe SSD or larger. It's also a good idea to step up from the dim 1080p screen.
