Alienware 17 review: Beauty and beast in one gorgeous gaming notebook

June 11, 2014

Dell completely redesigned its Alienware gaming laptop line in 2013, debuting new, sleek-looking chasses at E3. The Alienware 17 sports curves where there used to be lines, lines where there used to be nothing, and steel-gray, anodized aluminum and magnesium alloy where there used to be rubbery plastic. This machine also has a customizable 10-zone lighting system, which is a huge draw for visual nerds like me. Granted, we saw this redesign last June. We’ll forgive the retread, though, because this is a gaming notebook, and it’s what’s on the inside that really counts.The Alienware 17 is attractive, fast, and specced to the max. On that score, this 2014 Alienware 17 is one of the first laptops to ship with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M graphics card, which has 8– yes, 8GB of GDDR5 memory. That’s 8GB of dedicated RAM just for your graphics card. And that’s not all: Nvidia’s 800M series GPUs also have several new gamer-oriented features, including Battery Boost and ShadowPlay. Battery Boost is a battery-saving mode that can reportedly extend your gaming time up to twice as long. ShadowPlay is game-capture software that lets you record your best battles.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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