Honestly, there are almost no good choices that remain in high performance notebooks anywhere at this time. The vast majority of the stuff is BGA filth, and some of it that is not suffers from a chassis that is too compact to do a nice job of cooling. I can count on two fingers what I would even remotely consider buying and even then that comes with some reservations because of extremely undesirable behavior on the part of all ODM/OEM options. We're living in some pretty sad times for laptops. It will be interesting to see how some of the thin and light stuff deals with Pascal. Gimping performance is never a good thing, but it may be unavoidable, especially with 1080, to keep them from burning up.
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QHD Confirmed to have 120hz and Gsync (first time any laptop maker has stated all 3: QHD, 120hz, and Gsync)
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@matt-helm it is time to try something else
iLok sold the 17R3, now he's rocking 6700k 1080 in the BatMobile, 775DM3
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Why do u even visit this sub forum anyway? It is so ****ing anoying to read all the same ******** from you two all the Time.... We get it.. U dont like bga Notebooks. Thats Fine for u but the rest of us are ok with it and we want to talk about the new aliens that are about to come.... Pls go troll somewhere else...
I am always ashamed if i read ur posts... I always think there are some nerd guys with no friends and all they gonna do is think about what they could write about bga books.
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This is a good option for me.
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If you don't like it, use the ignore feature like I do. Every page in every Alienware sub-forum has a link in the lower right corner to "show ignored content" because I use that feature. Feel free to follow my lead if it really bothers you. It is an effective tool, so might as well use it. Our posts will be visible to those looking for guidance from the gurus and that's all that matters.
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Personally speaking, I'd rather not use the "Ignore" feature (never been a fan of it unless in special cases). Somebody has something to say, and even if it's disagreeable, that doesn't mean I should ignore the person entirely. I can read past it, but reading multiple sides of one topic or story is good. Or if you ignore someone but they post new information, then maybe you feel left out until someone you don't ignore mentions it.
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The hypocrisy...
The only users that are taking temper tantrums or are cry babies are the naysayers that have repeatedly said how much they dislike the new Alienwares...
They're the ones with the defamatory signatures crying out for attention...
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I do not use the ignore function. I talk about what I like of hardware vs what I don't like. Info out to the people is most important!!
If others like or don't like what I write about (tech), is up to them. But do not let it get personal. Censorship belong to the past and not in 2016. There is a difference in case vs person.
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I'd like a 6700k, 1080, 1440p (400nit) in something reasonably durable.
I feel like i'm taking crazy pill when I come here for advice...
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Any news on its availability on HIDEVOLUTION?
Built quality looks like very good !
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Haha...technology is a blast.
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I'm toying with the idea of grabbing a Sager.. They seem to have the 17'' 1440P 400 nit screens available 10/14
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That MSI laptop is quite the mystery. Makes me wonder how much OEMs have toyed and played around with LGA CPUs in their laptops.
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Edit. @Game7a1 As long OEM's play with thinner and thinner laptop models, they can't touch LGA cpu's. And yes. The MSi model is a mystery. But I can't imagine this model is a power house. All to flimsy cpu heatsink.
The new Acer monster could have socket hardware. But no... They even varning against a decent overclock. The engineers even varning that their Acer machine can go into flames with heavy overclocking, LOLLast edited: Sep 21, 2016Cass-Olé likes this. -
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See Acer. They tried to make a flagship, but as all know they failed. The main reason with that monster was to show something special. A show of!!Last edited: Sep 21, 2016Mr. Fox likes this. -
What strikes me as weird, and I am not intending for this to be insulting or derogatory... just an observation... is that the people who complained the most in the past that they wanted more thin and light notebooks options--now that the market is totally over-saturated with that option, almost to the exclusion of everything else--now act as if nothing else matters, as if everyone should happily jump on their bandwagon and be willing to make the same compromises it took for them to get what they wanted. That's how it seems from my perspective.
As far as MSI is concerned, I think it is predictable things are not going well. They offer psuedo-beast machines that are shackled by weak CPUs that cannot deliver the level of performance Clevo does because they have castrated what should be a really competent monsterbook. On top of that, changing MXM form factors that prevent the owners of their existing machines from upgrading. Then they also did some really retarded things with power management that further crippled the performance of their machines. MSI created the perfect storm for themselves by doing stupid stuff. Anyone that isn't really pissed by all of those things is kind of a wuss from my perspective. MSI should have been smart enough to know better. They deserve to be struggling. Hopefully, they will get their act together and start doing things right. And, I'm talking about their big notebooks, not their thin and light options.Last edited: Sep 21, 2016 -
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Sigh.
Another huge thread of crap - is there anywhere people who are excited by a product can go?
A 13in laptop with an OLED screen and an external card adapter doesnt seem to exist elsewhere, so for the meantime I am stuck with Alienware.
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So Samsung just announced their next generation of SSDs; I'm curious if they'll be in the new Alienwares.
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Probably need a dedicated thread in the BGA sub-forum if you want it to revolve around one narrow topic exclusively. 2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17
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The issue is how disheartening it becomes sometimes with this general forum. I really shouldnt be forced into creating a sub-topic or sorting through pages of arguing.
I am all for competition - but this isnt "x suits you better". It's the same anti-alienware rhetoric, which you are welcome to have, but maybe that should be made into your own thread so people who have issues or concerned about it can go to one thread to review all the grievances.
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I just found this for you in the BGA sub-forum case it helps. It's not dedicated to Alienware 13 discussions:
[Alienware Refresh] Initial thoughts and impressions? Hit or a Miss?
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I just think it could be more focused than derailing every thread with traction in the alienware forums.
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Granted, Aliewnare did ship with the 1st 1 TB PCIe M.2 at only $50 more than their 512 GB M.2 option. Even if it was OEM, it was a good deal (mainly for the resell value).
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