I started seeing it appear in stores i started seeing people buy it in retail locations i'm like where's the review unit and i started to get a little suspicious because companies do this thing where they don't send me devices when they know i'm going to take a steaming dump on it like it's happened before in the past with other brands and i'm like maybe this is it maybe this is one of those products so i go and buy it i order one online and then a week and a half.
After i order it my order gets cancelled the reasons like you know it's damaged in shipping or whatever and they're going to start a new order i'm like what is going on right it honestly felt like they were trying to hide something so i get this thing and finally and my review on this thing was very thorough more thorough than a regular device because i just felt like something had to be something had to be up right okay so Alienware x17 brand new product like new design new chassis new thermal system new everything but it only comes with this.
White color on the exterior it's a color that i like and every time i've ever picked up an Alienware device over the past few years i've gone for this color but it's not for everyone.
I do think it does show the kind of curvature and design language of the laptop better with like a lighter color you can see the details a little bit better but the interior also only comes in one color and it is a dark.
I want to say black but it's not quite black it's like this really really dark gray that's got this speckled pattern to it and this material is very prone to fingerprints now.
I do like the look of it but i am surprised that they only offered in one color like in the past alienware's top end devices have had two sometimes even three color options for the exterior and it's just strange that they only offer one right now this might change in the future it could be because of manufacturing during the pandemic but it is a little strange to me now.
The tail end of the device still has that iconic alienware look so it's got that RGB trim light as well as the hexagonal grid for the exhaust they have upgraded the trim light this year so you can extensively customize the lighting on the rear of the device.
If you so choose okay so when they first announced the x product one of the first features they talked about was how thin this was gonna be it was like this i think was the thinnest product alienware has ever put out i think that was like the marketing uh terminology.
They used and my initial reaction was like that can't be good right because alienware devices have never been about thin they've always been thicker but they've been really really well built these things are super solid right and i thought that by going this thing.
They would lose a lot of that structural tankiness but it's super solid this thing feels like a tank and i'm actually surprised that they've been able to keep that structural rigidity while making it so thin it is heavy i built well i think that's the most important thing when it comes to any bigger device good build quality and they've done a good job in that front now to get inside the back panel comes off quite easily but there's some good things and there's some less good things so there's two nvme slots one of them being.
Pcie four so you can go super fast the other one is just pcie three but here's the weird stuff so the x17 comes with a wi-fi card that's baked on but removable ram the x15 is flipped.
It's the reverse of that it's got removable wi-fi but the ram is baked on now neither of these cases are ideal right for the user we want removable everything it's strange to me that they did that on the x17 in particular baked wi-fi is never good and the wi-fi card.
They went with killer like i would have swapped this out for just a regular stock intel but you can't now the x17 is running four fans two big ones and then two smaller ones and in addition to these fans.
They're also running a new thermal compound it's a phase change material that's gallium based now i've never used this stuff i've never seen this stuff outside of the x17 so i can't really comment on previous applications of it but they've done a really fantastic job with this new thermal system on the x17 it cools incredibly well now.
I don't know how much that is due to the phase change material or it's just because there's four fans in there just pulling out heat doing work but it's good better than i would have expected for Alienware because in their past.
The devices have usually run hot but it's not just compared to alienware devices like this is better than the competition when it comes to 17-inch gaming devices they're usually thicker and louder but the x17 is able to keep up with some of the best stuff out there now.
When it comes to overclocking so if you look at any of my Alienware reviews i've done over the past few years i tend not to even touch the overclocking options because the devices are usually at their thermal limit if they're not overheating they're close to it so why push it even harder right but this year potential.
I wanted to see how far this thing can go so i bumped up the clock threw in a bit of an undervolt and i was getting some very impressive numbers now one thing to keep in mind if you're someone.
Who wants to re-paste it or you just want to take a look at the thermal interface material it is a flipped motherboard so you have to do a fairly extensive disassembly if you want access to the cpu and gpu side okay the battery so this is a pretty big battery and i got around four and a half hours of battery life with my regular.
You get one of the lower rest screens life on the device the keyboard uses the same cherry mx mechanical switches that we saw a few months ago on the last iteration of the 17-inch device.
I really like these keys they're not for everyone it's got that like ping sound if you type super fast on it i really like the feel of it but it's something that if for one of your noise sensitive like if you don't want a loud keyboard this ain't the move uh but i also think that if you don't like that type of tactility like.
There's people out there that just don't like that type of clickiness to their keyboard then you won't like this either but i think most people will enjoy the typing experience and especially the gaming experience this is a really nice keyboard to game on it does not have a number pad if you remember the last mechanical keyboard.
I showed you from these guys they had a number pad on the 17-inch device it's gone i like that i don't use number pads but i feel like most people would prefer to be on i don't know uh OK the one thing I could do without about this console is the absence of backdrop illumination on a large number of the optional elements of these keys so any of the F keys or even like the numerics like.
If you need to utilize like the ampersand or the cash sign like in the event that you're utilizing any of those capacities in obscurity and you don't realize it all things being equal it's difficult to see you really like slant the screen check out at it with the sparkle from the screen.
It's a thing this should be fixed however beside that console is extraordinary OK trackpad this lights up now in the event that i'm not mixed up this main lights up with the designs.
It's cool yet I think they ought to have placed it on the lower end designs too now as far as the screens they have three choices furthermore, it looks marvelous it's brilliant it's very shading precise and it's really quick it's a great screen anyway.
It doesn't have progressed optimus or any sort of mux switch so on the off chance that you're playing sure games at specific goals with the inherent presentation you can lose some companions now actually for the stuff that I play it doesn't make any difference whatsoever yet that is not the point assuming you're purchasing a gadget with this type right this sort of cost it ought to have it and I feel like every other person is doing all the contenders can do it.
This doesn't have it now there is a board that supports progressed optimus as the section level screen don't uphold the capacity to interface straightforwardly to the video card for the most ideal execution one thing else that I seen the board it has sensibly slim bezels and whatever however this can't viewpoint proportion screens so down the line if Alienware needs to stick in a taller screen they'd need to upgrade the entirety front board.
Which is a piece lamentable OK I simply need to shut off this video with the ports so there's no ports on the side well there's a power plug on the left and an earphone jack on the right yet each of the ports are on the back of the gadget and I like it however several things number one the miniature sd is in a genuinely awful spot you got to come to the rear of the gadget to plug it in and haul it out so assuming.
That you're moving records regularly it's a serious irritation however generally speaking the port determination is very great now the air conditioner connector it accompanies on the top of the line exceptionally huge and extremely weighty now assuming.
You get the new gallium nitrate based innovation right so it's a more slender more modest more compact bundle I truly would have connector too yet, you realize what talking about things I could do without about the x17 another huge one for me is the product I could do without alienware's order setter it's jumbled it's confounding it's not instinctive the lighting framework isn't going to change the product isn't incredible assuming i'm being straightforward I feel like alienware has the most awful programming in the gaming PC market right currently it's genuinely terrible uh the other thing are the speakers so on the off chance that you've seen I didn't notice them right you don't require to hear them
They're garbage yet I will say this it is odd to me that alienware invested the energy and the cash furthermore, the assets to give you a rainbow trackpad however they couldn't give you great speakers like macbooks and like some huawei gadgets some xiaomi gadgets have incredible speakers.
How can they put this stuff like everybody has a similar sort of waste speakers they're all garbage it simply kills me that this is showing up in another gadget from alienware where they had the potential chance to give you something fresh out of the plastic new right yet they give you the normal awful gaming PC speakers OK so in general I like this gadget significantly more than I at any point figured.
I would um the estimating on it so this is about regardless of whether that is worth the effort to you it's altogether up to your spending plan right however, I will say this is difficult to contrast with different items since it's got such an extraordinary look such a special warm framework an interesting plan extraordinary lighting framework.
This is difficult to think about like in the conventional sense when it comes to looking at workstations however I like it I like what i'm seeing and whenever I imagined that alienware was attempting to conceal something no chance the x17 is strong it's slight it's skilled appropriately cooled it's something that I simply never would have expected to emerge from alienware truth be told however it's here OK expectation you all appreciated.
This video thumbs assuming that you loved it subs in the event that you cherished it see you folks sometime later you since the x-17s it had to such an extent testing however this is with the 4k board if at the present time they have a 4k board and two which is extraordinary yet the 4k board too connector 240 watts but at the same time it's utilizing model is a 330 watt ac connector that is jumped at the chance to seen that tech in the 330 watt 250 or 300 a greater number of than a contending item like of the 1080p choices you'll 1080p choices this one's the 4k board mid-level choice like a 1080p 360 hertz one of the lower spec x17s like a 3060 most elevated arrangements like the rtx
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