Ruvika: Congrats my friend! Don't forget to stress test your new computer, try with games like DOOM I & II, Quake, Deus Ex, Hitman Codename 47, Age of Empire 2 (for processing power) and Call of Duty 4.

BenKii: 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

.erercott: Wait....you didn't build one?

but isn't more convenient to buy the pieces and build your own, as well as customize it?

Plasticine879: Ooooooh, Intel Arc graphics. Intel is finally getting good, almost don't need a dedicated card any more. I heard the next iteration of Arc iGP is supposed to be up to 60% faster than the current one.

Nice system for the price, I hope it gives you many years of enjoyment.