It's an Alienware m16 R2 laptop that I recently got for $840 (before tax).

My current rig is a 7 year old OMEN laptop with an AMD RX580 GPU. It has served me well and no part on it has ever broke. I'd still be using it except 2 games I want to play refuse to even start. They are FF7: Rebirth and FF16. Apparently my old card is missing a component required required to run these games. I can still get quite a few new games to run 30 fps at 1080p at low settings so I would still be using it except for the fact I'd like to be able to play my most anticipated FF games.

I've been searching for a few months now on a new laptop and was trying to go for something under $1000 that'll run most games 60fps at high settings and last me at least 5 years. So does anyone have any thoughts on this Alienware computer I bought? Is it any good? Any experience with it? Or perhaps there's another sub $1000 computer that I should've looked at? Would love to know everyone's thoughts on it.

Here are the full specs of the computer I bought:
16.0" QHD+ (2560 x 1600, WQXGA+) 16:10, 240Hz 3ms, 300-nits, 100% sRGB, NVIDIA G-SYNC + Advanced Optimus, Anti-glare, IPS Display
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155H (24MB cache, 16 cores, 1.40 to 4.80 GHz P-Core)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, 8 GB GDDR6
16GB, 2x8GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s
1TB, M.2, PCIe NVMe, SSD

How did you get Alienware laptop with 4070 and 2560 x 1600 display for 840? Good deal imo.

My MSI Katana 15 15.6" 144Hz FHD Gaming Laptop: 13th Gen Intel Core i7, RTX 4070, 16GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe SSD cost more.

congratulations :D

uhm, i was planning a similar post myself today, so i hope you can forgive me *angelic emoticon

You got a smashing deal there. I bought a ASUS TUF laptop with RTX 3070 and Ryzen 7 6800H, 1440p 165Hz for 1100 Euros on black friday two years ago (got the last one in stock), and it took a LONG while before anything with similar specs sold for that price again. Yours will be even better, but some heavy games I've played on it with high settings are Sons of the Forest, Black Ops 6, Battlefield 2042, Like A Dragon IW, and 40K Darktide.

Open box deal at Best Buy so in other words, "Clearanced". Once it arrives, I'll have to do some tests to make sure it is all in working order. Cool! Love to see what kind of rig you got. :)

*Round of applause*

Now try not to break it.

Once it arrives, I have 15 days to check it out before the return window to Best Buy closes. Going to be putting it through a lot of tests before then.

I was going to post what people's opinions were on sub $1000 computers today but then this deal showed up and felt too good to pass up. So, yeah, I'm kinda trying to validate my purchase too. See if people think I made a poor decision.

Great find! Hope it works great and brings you tons of gaming.. The best med gaming laptop I got was HP Victus 15 Gaming Laptop. Got it for 600 on black Friday deal couple years ago.

Specs:
Victus 15.6" Gaming Laptop PC, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, Refined 1080p IPS Display, Compact Design, All-in-One Keyboard with Enlarged Touchpad, HD Webcam (15-fb0028nr, 2022) 16GB of DDR 4 ram.

A friendly reminder:
https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/en-us/product/alienware-m16-r2-laptop/drivers

Get everything. Plus I would also make a partial clone of the primary drive after you set it up the way ypu want it. That way it only saves what storage space is used and does not waste the empty space. Usually takes up around 90GB or so and if the drives glitches out. Just toss the original and add a new one. Drop in the clone, Bickity bam, yer back up and running.

Make a Ventoy--> Add System Rescue iso and CloneZilla to that Ventoy drive(in Windows, as easy as drag and drop, after you burn Ventoy to a USB stick). In System Rescue is Gparted--> any clean new drive you wanna use to clone to. Exit sysresc and boot up CloneZilla with the drive intend to save to. Follow the instructions and make your clone.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

https://www.system-rescue.org/

https://clonezilla.org/

Hope you enjoy your new rig bruh! :)

absolutely not, it seems like a machine who can demolish every day tasks with ease and will eat most games for breakfast , especially if you fiddle around a bit with settings, though i'm guessing you are probably more up to date with its inner workings then most

Yeah, and it is massive! Congrats to the OP!

I love PC gaming because you are not obliged to get a high-end PC as there are lots of great older games that run just fine on older hardware. I can find something interesting to play even from my GOG games on pretty much any 5-10 years old laptops etc.

So a smaller e-peen is quite ok too, and will give you many joyful moments! Sounds great. The only thing I would have maybe changed was to have 32GB RAM and a 2TB (or even 4TB) SSD, but those specs will do for now I am sure especially for that price, and those components are easy to replace when the time comes.

My thoughts exactly. I'm looking at prices to get 2 sticks of 16GB RAM and possibly another NVME for the 2nd slot to be 4TB for all my gaming footage that I use for my Youtube videos. Newegg usually has good prices on that stuff so I'll be scoping for upgrades there.

Congrats on the new machine, sounds like a stellar deal.

Can I ask why those of you who buy gaming laptops do so instead of going with a desktop? Do you use them on the go often and/or is it the power efficiency? Since I'm always hearing that you get more bang for your money when opting for a desktop. Also asking because I want to get a new computer myself too.

Well for me it's mostly because of my current living situation is very cramped. There is no room for a desktop even though I'd prefer one. So the laptop serves as a way to flip open and work on something then move to a different spot if other people need that spot for stuff.

They also don't pull as many Watts as a desktop so they're made a bit more efficiently. You also get a screen built into it so it saves on having to buy a separate monitor for your desktop. I guess you could say your trading some extra power with a desktop for mobility with a laptop.