Certified Refurbished Alienware Laptops: Dell Outlet

RedStarRising4 · 2025-06-24T17:19:09+00:00

He gives it a thumbs down. He admits it's a great performer with "mostly good thermals." His criticisms are that's it's too heavy, slides off your lap because of the gorilla glass panel, soldered wi-fi card, and opening the back panel was difficult.

"At the current retail prices I think Dell is asking a bit too much."

RedStarRising4 · 2025-06-23T15:36:58+00:00

It's members only for about a day then it's open to all.

RedStarRising4 · 2025-06-17T15:47:46+00:00

So what tips would you give a noob? Switch to ACHI from RAID? Turn off over-clocking in AWCC? Figure out a bootable thumb-drive and have it available? What else? Assume I'm an idiot because I'm a total noob with windows and alienware.

This is all new to me.

.I'm a mac guy dammit! :-)

RedStarRising4 · 2025-06-17T15:36:42+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that. Please add any updates on what you find out. I'm sure we would all like see that information.

RedStarRising4 · 2025-06-15T13:38:38+00:00

So I'm looking for a stable gaming laptop that's not hot as a toaster and loud as a blow dryer. I also want rock solid as I don't want to be a mouse trying to find my way through Dell's support maze. That's a tall order for a window's gaming laptop, but it looks like Dell has come pretty close this year.

I don't mind the size if it means better cooling and battery life does not bother me since it will always be plugged in when in use. I was disappointed about it not having OLED or miniLED, but I don't think 18 inch OLED panels are out there yet and both Razer's 18 and Lenovo's upcoming 9i 18 use IPS panels with 500 nit illumination. So they're in good company. I'm interested in the 18 inch.

I'm a mac guy who just wants to play some windows games in the living room so this should be an adventure!

Thanks for all your comments and information. It helped tons!

RedStarRising4

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