in 2019 , still using this laptop for day to day purposes!

Your editing and analysis is flawless, oh my god.

"The power button is on the right side"

7 years later: *Damn, i still want this latop*

2k? I really don't understand AW pricing, a little over a year ago i picked up a MSI GT60 for $500 less with a 770M, now the same model for the same price comes with a 870M and better CPU.

Great laptop using it in 2018 change the processor and put 1 hhd 2 tb and 1 ssd 500 and is great af

Everybody hates on Alienware because there "over priced". Yes you probably can find other laptops with the same internal specs for $500 cheaper. Alienware focuses on the little things, or big in my opinion. Look when they compare the sound... The ASUS is terrible compared to the Alienware. Also the heat... Some MSI/Razer Blades will feel like your playing in your fireplace. Also the screen is way clearer and has much less glare. The AlienFX just put the eye candy over the top, only someone who truly enjoys gaming will see how much an extra $500 will get you.

Still have and use my 2014 model with the i5. I upgraded Ram a few days ago to 16GB and it continues to work great. Battery has been replaced and I really only use it while plugged in because you'll only get about 3 hours out of it. It's heavy and bulky, but the lighting effects and durability still hold true. I mostly play WOTs and WOWs on this rig at High settings and have on average 55 - 60 FPS so no complaints and if you use Geforce Now it really doesn't matter anymore. Oh and I've never had a laptop last past 3 years, so kuddos to Alienware for making a great product!

Even the $2200 version of this only has a 765m... Really you would be so far better off buying something like a Razer blade than this.

Loved how you did the audio comparison! Kudos xD :)

it's sad to see this so high, my ram is 8 gig higher, i got a gtx 870 and a i7 4800 but no ssd for under 2k....

Ok I understand you guys think that alienware is overpriced. But think about this way. Alienware has been improving there quality and you are paying for the design. Some people like the image of there laptop and thats 100% understandable. Just chill and take a deep breath. Certain people like looks and fancy lights and they want to pay. I own a alienware 17 and I have a custem built desktop. I love both systems. You cant get the design of alienware anywhere else so thats why its so expensive. The lighting on this thing is a main selling factor and it does the job well done! Before you start ranting about how bulky it is, then why is alienware temps are so good compared to the razer blade? I rather have a system that is bulky and does not overheat and die in 2 years from frying the components. Think First!

8 Years later and watching this on mine, Dont forget you can swap out CPU which is pretty cool for laptops

I enjoy the ease of understanding of linus, and the amount of nerdiness and really indepth information from tek syndicate. But you guys just combine both together, especially your case review

my alienware14 is still alive and kicking until this day..

I personally don't like thick gaming laptops.

I've been using this laptop for about 7 years now. Cons: I had to replace the hard drive. battery life is close to 0, not even close to a gaming laptop anymore, It's not really portable. Pros: The quality of the device is fucking insane, I've been using it for about 7 years, and it still is many times faster than the average mid range laptop. I actually think the display is pretty good too, and for daily tasks. 16gb of ram is plenty in my opinion even tho is gddr3. you can find this laptop for about 250-350usd, and for that price range, there's no chance you can find a similar performing new laptop.

Awesome video, man. It had the right amount of detail, comparison, and opinion! Can you make a video to help buyers in choosing gaming laptops as well? Thanks. Subbed

I realy liked that audio comparison. Please keep doing that with all products that have audio :)

I from future 2020 This laptop is still cool

I gamed on this for almost 3 years before I built my own PC. I had the GT 750m not a GTX and the same CPU with 8GB of ram (i had to upgrade from 4GB) and it was DECENT. I played DayZ, Arma 3, GTA V and a few other games on it and it did okay on low settings. I had to replace the battery 3 times in a 3 year window and the charger once. But, I would not recommended this laptop to anyone looking to buy it. WAY over-priced and had a lot of issues. Only snag one if it's an amazing deal.

Case is anodized aluminum, the surfaces are magnesium alloy covered in a soft touch rubberized coating. The only thing plastic is the bottom cover that slides on and off to cover the battery. To be clear, not plastic. It does smudge up like crazy though. Better keep a cloth handy.

I think this is competitive in the market because you can customize colors and keyboard back lighting unlike others.

I just bought 2 AW laptops of these for my wife and I ( we got the larger screen model) , we really love them. I've never bought an Alienware before now, but its great!

My sister still has mine. its still kicking since 2014. I bought it just a few months before they discontinued it.

2000 dollars?? My brother got a lenovo laptop with 2 gpus, an i74700mq and 8 gigs of ram for $1000 and he got a keyboard and monitor to make a setup. It can run bf4 high 60 fps. Pretty good for a laptop at that price but the drawback is that if you use it without an external keyboard the one on the laptop gets hot because of the two gpu's.

Great review, thanks for taking the time to make this.

Those complaining about chunky gaming laptops, here's the issue with the thin ones: They're fucking expensive - yes, we're on an Alienware video and they're OP, but compare them to Clevo and MSI and there is no competition in price/performance. You can pretty much pay half and get the same performance but with better cooling. The battery life is awful wherever you go - to fit in high end components and especially in a thin chassis, there's no space for battery nor a particular care for battery life. That means you need to be tethered to a wall and that in itself undermines the usefulness of the portability of these thin laptops. Machines like the Alienware 17 surprisingly can get around 4 hours of life doing menial tasks. The cooling is sub par - MSI's GE60 has been proven to pretty much catch fire when playing gaming, with the entire machine getting warm. While machines like the Blade 14 and the X7 seem to be able to handle themselves, you still aren't going to get the overclocking headroom available in larger notebooks. Clevos/Alienware/ASUS/MSI "chunky" gaming notebooks can see overclocks in the range of multiple 100s of MHz which significantly boosts gaming performance. They're completely unupgradeable - while some of these notebooks might let you swap out storage, memory and perhaps wireless interfaces you're stuck with that GPU however you look at it. This means in 2 years, no, you won't be able to run the latest games at max, and yes, your machine has depreciated a large amount. High end Clevo/MSI/Alienware machines have MXM slots which means that you can indeed swap out graphics cards (albeit not for a small fee) and potentially hugely increase system performance. Most people don't WANT to move their notebook around a lot - Many people's reason for buying a gaming notebook is simply because of lack of space or because they want to have a machine that's portable to go to LAN parties and the like. It acts like a desktop replacement. While your Blade or whatever may be lighter and smaller than a chunky gaming notebook, it's still got to go in a bag and be carried to wherever your LAN party is and you're not going to be carrying it around while you game because you don't have 3 hands. So wherever it goes, it's going to be stationed. You're likely to take your car or public transport there so weight doesn't really matter. Even if you're carrying it, you can handle a very significant amount of weight if you're wearing a half decent rucksack (backpack).

fuck man. that loudspeaker testing part was some crazy shit. kudos

Thanks HC, an excellent review! I just bought an Acer Aspire V3-772G-9820. I realize the quality differences, but quite frankly, I think I got a MUCH better deal, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M, i7-4712MQ, 2 year warranty (Costco) and less than $1000 Can.

Looks better tha 2016 models

Managed to get mine for less than $2000 with exactly the same configuration from the UK :P

you, sir come close Morgan freeman in voice analysis and information. thank you for the great editing as well.

Classy review as always, Dimitri! Keep it coming.

2H50Min battery ? mine never lasted 2H

Where do i get compatible RAM to max at 16 GB? i use Photoshop and edit video - so i am tapping out. the last RAM i bought for this machine was incompatible. Also, how is this 1080p res = i only see 1366 x 768?

What we couldnt see off screen is that they had guns pointed to their heads

I own this thing in the same setup except for the cpu (I have the 4800) since the release and I have to say that your review is right on everything. Although I have to point out that the thickness and weight are a bit annoying at time, I carry it around all day at school. Other than that I am pretty happy with it, I use it for video editing, 3D design and gaming with almost no performance issues at all.

I got almost the same specs in my laptop and I would say after 4 years working with it, it still works perfectly even with gaming!! specs: Intel I7 4700MQ GTX 765M 8Gig RAM 128GB SSD 1000 GB HDD Total price: 1200 USD lol

that is a perfect review i don't know why you don't have that many subscriber's, keep it up hope you get more companies sponsor's. thanks for the review.

Like the Thermal Imaging. Nice addition.

Have an Alienware 14 with everything in this configuration except it has a intel i7 4900mq processor. I love this laptop. Though it could use some improving

KOAN Sound wallpaper, in love..

I bought mine right as it was being phased out (my sister currently has it). I upgraded to the Alienware x51r3 but it was uh seized, so I bought this Aurora R6. I started out my Alienware adventure with the Aurora R2. But when I went to upgrade the memory I put the wrong kind in and it fried my motherboard. My favorite thing about it was it came with some kind of special Dolby Audio system chip built into it.

I have the AlienWare14 laptop, when I play minecraft without the ac plugged in I get about 15 - 25 FPS when I run the game with G-Force graphics I get about 60 - 100 FPS. However when the ac is plugged in I get 25 - 35 FPS with the G-Force I get about 80 - 120 - 250 FPS. It's weird how your computer preforms faster with the ac plugged in than without it plugged in. Also if I run Minecraft I go to task manager and go to details, right click java and click set infinity and deselect all boxes besides one, this will make sure my game doesn't use all CPU's and heat up my laptop.

Great review as always

just got one of these today definitely an upgrade from my GT 520M more than quadrupled my frame rates

Great Review Dmitry!

Can you even play heavy games in this? like PUBG and 2K at high quality and high FPS?

please can we have a review of the newer versions like the 13, 15, 17 , love your videos ;)

I would prefer thick laptop manufacturers to stack the components more in the back, granted it would look horrible, but it would leave the front very thin, and I cant stand the elevation of the keyboard when I have a thick laptop on my desk

The battery life gets better after some weeks of usage Your sound card might be defective as mine was too i got a replacement with a new alienware which solved the no bass issue though there is not much of bass you can bumpit up using itunes and itunes also gets the lighting fx

Yooooooo... Your review of this, and the way you video this is quite beautiful, professional, and just artistic to my eyes... Subbed!!!!

I don't like the rubberized surface. it started to peel off on my M11x after about a year of normal use and one a month cleaning. I had to spend a few days to remove the rubberized layer.

One of the Greatest and best Produced due to size power, still today plays Cyberpunk 2077 great, what a beast of a machine.

Great review! I've been a fan of AW laptop designs and always wanted to own one but the prices are just ridiculous.Never understood AW's pricing strategy

I just bought this for my sister for 300$, did I just waste my money? I had good intentions, shes a gamer and graduated from highschool with a AA college degree. I bought it used as a treat for her.... she plays a lot of VR on steam.... did I make a mistake?

i just plugged a 250 ssd in mine and it's working like a charm honestly i feel bad to for just getting to fix it now

Hey HardwareCanucks can you please Review the Razer blade 2014 Laptop ?

I bought one at the start of 2014, love it and from my experience it performs outstandingly for what I play! and it's a very simple and pleasurable experience on it! But If I had to buy another one right now I would by the alienware 17 or 18

Even i really don't care about laptops and specially alienware, that was a awesome and complete review. Well done!

Everyone complaining that it doesnt have good graphics xD its from 2014 what do you expect? I have one and for games of its era it hits 60-120 frames

For my self I like the Razer Blade better the only thing is that it can get hot but get a cooling pad and every thing is jolly good :)

Got one of these for $13 ( Body is destroyed like legit chunks missing from the right and the battery is fully gone ) Good machine for the age especially if you can get it for a good price

wait a sec. 3d mark firestrike only 2200? do you have the latest drivers? or did you run it on the extreme preset? what is up with that?

Ordered one ! Can't wait --'

Yes I love to see people use The Witcher 2 as a benchmark. It is one of my favourite games and played a major role when I was choosing my last GPU.

I got nearly 3 hours out of my Alienware 14? Did it get changed or something?!?!

did you base the 2:50(casual/full brightness) and 65 mins (high performance/full brightness) from 100% until the laptop shutdown??

Isn't the power button on the left side? You just said "The power button is on the right side" and showed it on the left 😂

I got mine for 1100$ with only 8 gb of RAM, and it runs BF4 with no problem at 45 fps.

That beeping if driving me nuts

What's the pictures on the screen, when you were testing the colours

does anyone know if all the notebooks are produced after the purchase,or it has available in stock?

Nice video! But could you also review the Alienware 13?

I remember before I got an Alienware I used a dell windows 8 PC laptop. It ran games pretty good. But when the lights were shut off I couldn't see where I was typing on the keyboard I had to use a flashlight. Also when the sun shines through my window, I had to turn the brightness all the way up which causes the battery to run out faster and even that didn't always work. The glare was horrendous. I got an Alienware 14 and it ran games twice as good, I could use the lights on the keyboard to see where I was typing in the dark and the anti glare display it awesome. For 2K the Alienware specs might not seem to impressive because you can probably get the same specs on a laptop for just 1.5K but the practical use of it is in fact, amazing. Spec's aren't everything, think about if its practical for everyday use. I give Alienware 14 a 10/10. Its an excellent laptop.

They scared me at the price, they lost me around the battery life.

I am blown away $2,000 and battlefield still unplayable?

I have such a hard time in understanding the reason to buy a "gaming laptop". They are more expensive than normal desktops and the portability is awesome but... you have at most an hour of battery life while gaming which is spread to 3-4 hours on normal use. I just don't feel that I HAVE to game for the 1 hour at an airport or when I am on a trip. If I need to have internet access and a pc I would buy a netbook, ultrabook or even a mac. Laptops are made for portability, not for processing heavy power. It's getting really close but it is not there yet.

just bought one for $212 on eBay. awesome cheapy gaming laptop IMO.

Alienware has proved themselves with this laptop I may pick it up

I enjoy so much your video ! Bravo :)

Damn!!! Good Style in you videos

Is this laptop vr ready?

what song was used for the test there? pretty sick instrumental actually

That thickness tho.

Awesome CS Video! Frag or get fragged #1 Awp Power

Very good review, extremely well done!

Song during comparison please?

Literally THE ONLY thing that AW got right, the thickness. I have no Idea why you'd expect a thin paper-like notebook to preform like anything and stay reasonably cool. Where the hell are they going to put the components/heatsinks? On your face?

At that price point, just save up a little bit more and get the Asus 750 JZ (lowest priced model $2,249) , well, even the lower bracketed 750JS ($1,748.99) and 750 JM ($1,278.95) are equipped with much better graphics cards than this.

I bought the same spec Alienware 14 for 1200 dollars...I guess it's an ok deal? lol my msata over heats really badly and I'm not sure if it's because it's too close to the heat sink and the thermal paste is just not doing its job properly. my msata (samsung 840evo?) rises from around 30C to 65C just on start up, it quickly goes to 71C after about 10 minutes of Torchlight 2. I have to take the msata side of the air filter off and put it on top of my notepal U2 plus with both of the cooler's fans directly under the msata to keep it cool...now my msata stays around 40C on normal tasks and up to 51 after hours and hours of gaming. I just want to know if mine is just been stupid or does all the 14 have the same problem with the msata heating up thing....

Do you think the 14 is better the 13?

Love this little Alienware but have trouble getting latest graphics installed from NVIDIA who is not good at keeping up with the older GTX785.I also have the 18,4 Alienware with the dual CPUs GTX860m..same problem.Other than that plays BO3 fine.Not so with Cold War...keeps saying I need driver updates. My first Alienware was an M11 but was quite a laptop back then. Good review.

Hello friends. I need your help, a friend sold me a GTX 765m Alienware 14 to $ 674, which seems to them right?

x14 is overpriced, because it can't run shit without starting a fire.

The power button is on the LEFT side

Outstanding video, thanks!

I have a deal with my local retailer and they are willing to give one to me for 700, is it worth it?

nice sound test