Whichever one is good for my wallet

if the x15 camev with a numberpad i would buy it in a heartbeat

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Snakes 🐍

I choose razilenple

He is no bullshit, straight to the point guy. Have been following him for many years

Yeah real talent🤦🏿‍♀️

A KZfaqr to lead by

Definitely. As he just said 'I want to save you some time '

Some if not most will do one video each laptop then one video per pairing. 🤷🏼‍♂️

"no intro"

@@yassineazoui4204 ☠️

but alienware support that comes to your house is 20 - 50 bucks for them to come and however much it is to actually it for them to fix it so pretty pricy.

anyone thats had to deal with dell customer support knows that it will take at least 3 weeks of phone calls just to get the next day support to come out to your house.

@@sallyk9298 Having worked at Dell personally, I can verify that this is (unfortunately) correct. Consumer customer support/break-fix from them is actually terrible.

I recently just got rid of my alienware m15 r4 that I picked up last year. Dell's customer service actually sucks dude. They say its next day support however, they always have an excuse about shipping and receiving parts. They made me wait 90 days to replace the fans on the heatsink and those fans ended up dying out over a few months. Ontop of that, I had two of these models at one point and can confirm that the temperature of the gpu ON AVERAGE, would be around 90 something degrees c. I had to use throttlestop to lower the temps and the lowest they got during gaming was 76 degrees c. PLEASE save your money and just get a desktop. if a desktop isn't an option, go with anything else but dell/alienware.

Tell that to my Panasonic toughbook

& clean

Yes the other youtubers don't take showers regularly

His VDO is also short, concise, yet informative. He doesn't drag it long for viewing minutes too!

and others are stretching 10mins+ videos to cash more money. this guy ends where it should like no bullshit.

Wanna see Dave’s performance on pornhub

they did my man chippy wrong ;(

That's unfortunate dude. I own a 2020 blade 15 OLED going on 1.5 years now with no issues (knock on wood.) To my knowledge, the newer the blade, the less the quality control/quality is. 2020 is where I'd draw the line with the Blades.

They did you dirty bro

@@scottspiegel9078 nope, my 2019 razer blade 15's battery slowly inflated until I saw it, disconnected it and stopped using it, otherwise it could have exploded in my hands. I had to send it for repair and waited a month to get anything back, the good news is, they were not capable of repairing it, was still under warranty amd they had no stock on the model, so I received a late 2021 model with brand new 11th gen intel processor, rtx 3070 instead of 2070, 360hz instead of 240hz, thunderbolt 4, advanced Optimus and 2 nvme ssd slots, so I decided not to complain much, it was quite the upgrade, but it's still not ok to have batteries that can easily explode, specially since the best explanation was overheating, that's a design flaw not a customer miss use.

The battery issues is what is keeping me away from razer!

this is often overlooked in reviews, especially in terms of battery quality, had 2 blade 15s and had to constantly replace batteries because of bloating issues, since then i've never bought another

like what? Battery bloat and?

@@frostgodx even Linus tech tips had to change his razor blade stealth because of charging port complaint

@@frostgodx razer is known for either lasting forever or less than a year. their laptops tend to fall apart around a year. but reviewers only have them for a couple weeks so they'd never know

premium and bad durability lol.

Yeah same in Australia. Seems some configs are premade and ready-to-ship from our box stores like JB Hifi and such.

Several years ago it was customizable like he had mentioned. Especially before Dell bought Alienware it had so many customizations throughout the steps of buying it. Go check the website and Alienware has a little customization options. Only Alienware not Dell has better tech support option’s but it does increase the costs rapidly if adding it. I suppose it’s considered customizable to some people.

gigabyte is a large company, they can release bios updates if they want to, they just choose not to

@@rowan6582 Fair point, their desktop parts side is huge, but the laptop side is still relatively small. They’ve only recently started carrying Gigabyte laptops at Best Buy (maybe within the last year). Regardless of their size, they just aren’t giving the service they should on a laptop I paid $2,241.56 for. I kinda wish apple would just get into the gaming scene, because, personally, I prefer macOS and Apple’s incredible service. I’d be more than okay shelling $3K for a MBP if it could game.

@@hammycow26 100% agree, no matter the size of the laptop division the company shouldn't be selling something they can't fully support

@@neutronbeam Was looking at the G14 to replace mine. I know Asus doesn’t actually have a perfect record, but I’ll just get the extended warranty. Then I can bring it to Best Buy whenever something goes wrong. I don’t ever want to send a computer to Taiwan again lol. Was out a computer for half a semester when I was a COMPSCI major.

Gigabyte is small company? Dude the heck you talking about. They may not be a giant like asus and dell but they are big company. The reason you trouble happen is because they aren’t really active in mobile department. Gigabyte actually share the biggest pieces in computer parts. Specially in asia. Asian trust gigabyte from early 2000 more than msi, asus. Only shaken a bit after lately damage due to “psu problem”. I’m sorry to hear your story but it’s gigabyte false and there’s no excuse. Even Razer a small company doing razer taxes make it hard to sell can still provide some decent updates, even a smaller individual line up tongfeng can provide these little things. We needed the bare minimum service at least in 2-3 years for high end products. If you can’t fix it through online? Then send it back. I don’t accept the kind of answer “because we are small” from giant company. Rubbish. Ps: also i don’t think asus can provide better than other laptop conpany. But if you like asus then go for it, at least they don’t blame on being small. But if you need service fast for your company’s or work’s sake then the better i suggest is apple (you can bring to any apple store but will be charge premium for couple days), dell (help you out from online to offline, and even when you in company), acer hp vs lenovo (will trying to solve it out as temporary and will send technicians to check it out on schedule). But suggest put acer at the least of them all because acer kinda suck in their product line up. You can sum asus, msi and other company in one group (send to your dealer or head quarter)

dave has very high genetic conscientiousness levels.

runs cool to the touch even under serious load. It's an impressive cooling solution.

Oil eh?

@@nicholashalden4890 ?

@@nicholashalden4890 well that was random 😂

Love my new M18R1 upgraded

I also went with the Legion 7i Pro and I don't regret it, it's an excellent gaming machine. I like Lenovo's support and design language so much I've also bought a ThinkPad P1 for use when I'm travelling, which is a light and thin mobile workstation laptop with a discrete RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, capable of 60+ FPS gaming for the AAA games I play (Spider-Man, Forza Horizon 5, Diablo 4) while remaining quiet, even on battery power.

lmao yeah XD

its just as cancer honestly. I prefer armoury crate on asus lol there all terrible pieces of software but at least it does it the best it can.

Bruh, you and me both. I sold my A-51m for a Razer a few years back and never have problems with it. I wish ppl would stop wasting money on the garbage Alienware sells. They're like the GM of the Computer world. Smh.

My experiences are Razer laptops look cooler but run hotter, while Alienware’s designs look not as cool as Razer (unless you like the ring thing), easy to contaminate but run better.

@@jaylinmoseley3910 I have decided to sell my area 51m and get something that more reliable. Unfortunately, I was not able to sell it so I decided to go with a Dell trade-in. Imagine spending $3000 on a laptop and getting a $600 Dell credit in trade-in, for a like new laptop. But I need to get rid of this Alienware as it affects my productivity due to the issue with drivers. I cannot spend any of my time uninstalling and reinstalling drivers every time it is broken.

Command Center is absolute garbage. I used to have an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 and the ROG software was fantastic. Moving from that to CC felt like a giant step in the wrong direction

He's never been a frequent uploader because this has always been a part-time thing.

@@Lifeissorich. he's not a full time KZfaq that's what I meant

W profile pic, if you know you know 💯

he only uploads stuff that's interesting and worth to talk about. always quality over quantity

@@John_R_Jackson_III 😎

@John Doe Ik, it's dogshit.

@John Doe I bloody love the design though. But I agree.

I love your videos man

*since

Good for you :). Maybe the 14 is more reliable than the 15 honestly. Everyone I know with issues had the 15 inch models (me included)

@@codytappen I think the vapor chamber cooling and better thermal management on the 14 makes it less likely to have the same issues with batteries and such. Mine has also been great so far.

it's your time again man, get the m18 :)

Don’t be fooled, their support is just a bunch of useless techs who have no idea what they’re doing other than some basic trouble shooting. If you are served a defective unit you WILL regret ever buying an Alienware. If you think you’re getting peace of mind, you are wrong. Trust me, I’m going through it right now.

Or look at lenovo legion. Cheaper and almost as good

Go for either lenovo or Asus, the 3 year warranty of legion is quite reassuring

May I interest you in the zephyrus g14 or 15? I bought a 2022 g15 as a replacement for my 2015 macbook air and I'm loving it so far.

@@iscream1253 true, their build quality is really high too. I don't get why people pay 1000$ extra for just Alienware/razor brand name

@@davidlee1770 macos vs windows?

How do you like the X14 so far? Thinking on maybe getting one.

@@MrCrisking Love it so far. No complaints.

It physically hurts when people mistreat their laptops.

Same for me. I have the 2020 model and it works perfectly. I ran into one issue with my wifi card but the service was surprisingly helpful and I havent had anything go wrong since. taking care of laptops can extent their lifespan by years.

You can't imagine how I feel when someone picks up an open laptop from the corner of the screen 😬😬

Yeah my best mate is one of those types. He looked at me and my fiance, whom has a 2021 Razer Book 13" and our razer bags (mine a scout 15" hers a rogue 13") and thought we were crazy. I straight up told him, "no, you're crazy just tossing your twice as expensive laptop into your car!"

If you already have a laptop why not build gaming rig for 1300 you can upgrade over time

@@howtorawk Because he wanted a laptop? Why is this a constant suggestion for people who buy new laptops? Sometimes we just don’t want a rig.

@@TacitSwine750 he stated it’s not his primary computer and it’s for gaming only. For which case a desktop offers better performance per dollar.

Wait WHAT! I had a motherboard failure out of warranty and they wanted 500 to sell me the damn motherboard. Then again their shitty motherboards have the cpu, gpu, and ram baked in.

@@kp101destroyerI mean dude it’s the mother board ? That’s more than reasonable. This is not a pc, everything is baked into that board

slim gaming laptops are stupid. same with high refresh on a slim gaming laptop. bad bad bad combination

@@mikelisteral7863 big fan of thick ass chunky ass laptops huh?

I just ordered mine. How hot does it get usually? And how noisy are the fans on normal day to day tasks?

I have a 2020 blade 15 model with a 3060 and i7 and I took it apart and installed Liquid Metal and my computer is a lot cooler now when I benchmark but when I play games my computer get just as hot but I got slightly more performance out of it

really? i mean does lenovo even allow alienware level of exhaustive specs customization?

@@insenjojo1839 Yes, and thats exactly why it takes so long and why you should stick with the existing configuration instead of building your own if you dont want to wait forever.

Do notice on people with 10m subscriber their video not get 1 m views means people don't watch their videos just subscriber who subs

Yes, that's why im looking to pick up the M1 Macbook Air after nearly 2 years of its release. I don't think I will ever buy a premium laptop at base price, but this is a very good time to have my hands on the M1 Air- one of the best premium laptops available (Since it is at cheaper price). The build, the finish, the premium look, and I would have to stop playing games on my laptop to compensate for the change (which kinda makes me sad, I enjoy some gaming after work).

@@Yeesh69 I have been looking at MacBooks for the past few months since the M2 was heavily rumoured. After reading and watching reviews with the M2 Chip’s SSD and throttling debacles in the MacBook Air and 13” Pro, I’ve decided to try and get the M1 Pro chipset 2021 14” MacBook Pro for hopefully a cheaper price once the M2 laptops release and retailers cut the price of older models. That model has more ports, a magsafe charger, micro LED retina screen, a fan and more powerful than the standard M2.

Razer's design can more easily look professional and I like it more in general.

Even if you have the money, don't go razer. I've had 8 Razer products including 2 laptops and they've all had QA/QC issues.

minimalist, is also how their customer service could be described.

Asus is doing a lot of things right, I have to say, and for most people, they are what I would recommend for gaming laptops. That said, the 1 soldered stick of memory thing on the zephyrus laptops is extremely dumb, and I went with an alienware x15 because I wanted Intel + Nvidia with 32gb ram, which you have to pay $3200 to get on the m16. Asus solved this with the flow x16, so hopefully they bring it to the zephyrus series next year

@@jedisoldier I don't think most people need 32GB, 16GB RAM is enough especially for laptops (if you're buying these for gaming)

@@ddc171 NAH, GO FOR BROKE!

@@ddc171 4k gaming needs 32gb, 16 is just not enough anymore.

@@andrewx8888 yeah but most people game at 1080p, especially in laptops. 4k gaming at high frame rates is pretty expensive for the general people

asus and lenovo are the top laptop companies. nothing can beat them for the price. both are great.

You're delusional if you think they have better cooling solutions than 4 fans

@@MrYenwah118 You're delusional if you buy laptops for their performance

@@static7985 get your broke affordable laptop a.ss outta here

I own a X15 - charging block failed twice, one within warranty, one after. Montherboard failed once. And yes, battery bloated after two years.

Tough luck there. QC is always a concern. If I may, how did your x15 battery bloat after two years when it was released only a year ago? Not doubting your story but I expect it was a typo

@@jedisoldier sorry, it was a Razer15

Those were with like 2020 and earlier models. I don't own a razer laptop but I hardly hear about battery issues with the 2021 and older models. The 2022 models should especially be better since they literally have fans built into the batteries to cool them down.

@@fidelisitor8953 i have the 2021 blade 14, but it is too early to know about the bloating

Same here, I would have prefered Asus vs Razer. Alienware machines get pretty poor reviews overall...

Here with my used 2021 zephyrus g14 that I got for $1,075USD (r9 5900hs, gtx 3060)

Got the 2021 Asus g15 for 1360 open box from best buy with the 3070. A razer for those specs would be close to 2000. What my laptop is made of is not the biggest priority and Asus has pretty good build quality all things considered.

@@alfredoaraujo9294 have the same laptop and same scenario. The G15 is seriously one of the best right competing with Lenovo legion series

@@alfredoaraujo9294 I saw those like a week ago and was thinking about getting one. I'm just waiting for prime day now.

My experience exactly

Curious but if you are looking at those big powerful laptop why not just get an itx pc and a small laptop one the go. I can see the argument for say the G15 or razer being more portable but those type of laptop are so bulky that you can just go for an ITX build in say an NR200p at around the same price (even considering the Asus xg17 monitor) and vastly better performance and accoustic.

@@sentryion3106 Because an ITX PC is still bigger, heavier, no where near as portable, and can't function away from the wall unlike even the heaviest of laptops.

@@c.t.1699 bigger kinda but small case like Dan a4 h2o can already fit in my backpack with an external monitor though it is indeed heavier. Functionality away from a wall for gaming laptop is as good as non anyways so I don’t see how it’s better. Sure it can turn on but good luck gaming. This is why I suggested to get a small cheap secondary ultra book for when you need to do non gaming things away from the wall

@@sentryion3106 That's still highly impractical and pointless when laptop's exist, the case alone while empty weights more than the GT77, you're getting no benefits of a laptop and extremely limited benefits of a desktop, a monitor and keyboard would still have to be carried separately, and regardless of power battery life, the mobility factor is still something desktop's will pale in comparison in, not to mention many higher-end gaming laptops can still achieve great battery life results tasks such as light productivity, streaming video, hell even the Intel-based STRIX G15 and GE66 with 12th-gen i9's can achieve 6-9 hours unplugged.

@@c.t.1699 yea but you are comparing with the area 51m and ge77 which are pretty much desktop replacement than laptop. Trust me these laptops won’t last long away from the wall. most intel laptop are horrible at batterylife this generation. This is still not mention you are losing a lot of performance but most importantly having a lot louder experience. I’m a firm believer that after a certain point of weight say 3kg, The difference between 4 (counting the power brick) or 10kg is meaningless since they are both back breaking and might as well have a suitcase to lunge them around. I for one would not want to bring anything over 2kg around on a Uni campus. At the weight point of thicker laptops like gt77 or area 51m why not build a pc and a small ultra book for the go? Even x17 and razer 17 are also really heavy when compared to a light ultra book

You have a great machine I am also getting it :)

XPS are bult to last...speaking from expierence...even the thinkpads, last longer then the last gen intel macbooks

@@AniketSen-dn5ij even my old XPS got a battery bulge. Quality control is also a big problem with most PC's

the keyboards are still centered it just looks like that since there’s a numpad

@@user-wv5zf9sf7b I mean if you type on the keyboard it's kinda on the left side because of the numpad.

no you fucjing dumbass how bout you use 1 percent of your stupid ass mother fucking brain and see thae fact that if theres not space it doesnt have to fucing mean thats on the left holy shit my god

Which country

Not really a problem for me, since I use external mechanical keyboard. But when i need to use their keyboard there will a learning curve but now I'm used to is since legion is pretty wide to place my hands anywhere on the palm rest

Alienware is owned by Dell, both based in the USA. So yes, same day or next day is just for USA. Razer based out of China so their support and stuff will take just as long to Brazil

@@Alex-zi1nb I know, I'm aware... .But I said eleven weeks to make and ship the product. Not acceptable...

so they weren't great.

troll

never had an issue with my Blade 15. I wouldn't say Razer has many issues, just people who have issues say they have issues, others who have working Blades don't complain

I'm sorry what? The X14 is 1899 before tax for the i7 with 3060 and 16gig RAM and the 32 gig one is like 1950... And the screen is only 1080p and 16:9.. The G14 with the 6900HS and 6700S is 1499 rn with 16gig RAM. How is 1950 just a little more than 1499. Also u can get the G14 for like 1370 open box on BB.......

hey pal, i just got my x14, i think this thing is seriously impressive for the performance it packs in such a thin chassis, the chassis thickness is about that of a 14" macbook pro...which says a lot...i was sketchy about getting the dongle, but to my surprise i even got that ethernet dongle, couldn't be happier...a backpack or a pouch or sleeve would have made it the sweetest, this is my first windows computer where i didn't receive a free bag...not a big deal i know...but it does get hot, especially when i am playing hours of halo infinite...

To be fair, $50 or so to upgrade to 32gb ram is HUGE value, considering only one stick on the g14 is upgradable and the blade 14 caps out at 16gb. I agree, however, that the g14 is undeniably better value. Ignoring sales though, the g14 for $1700 isn’t far off from the alienware. Like it’s cheaper, with a better screen, don’t get me wrong, but for those who want Intel + Nvidia at 14 inches + usb c charging it could be worth it. Not value, but does have upsides if you are okay with 1080p and 16:9 at 14 inches (does have advanced optimus and g-sync though so that’s better for gamers)

@@nightwing8666 At the time I ordered, the X14 in that config cost me $1709 because of various discounts, and an open boxed G14 was $1500, so by the time I'd added an upgraded stick of RAM (DDR5 is expensive), it was basically the same price. G14's current discount changes things, but even then, it's not like G14 is stratospherically different, and if you're price sensitive, Dell's refurb store exists, and so do 3050 models. And yes, the 6700S is, in theory, a faster GPU than anything you can get on the X14. But if you mainly play CPU-bound games or do productivity tasks, like I do, the faster RAM + SSD + CPU in X14 absolutely smashes the G14. Also, AMD's drivers are so inconsistent. In AoE II, I got a smoother performance from the iGPU than the dGPU. Also, I have a feeling that when I want to get another laptop, the X14 will have retained its value better. I did really like the screen on the G14, but 1080p is not bad at 14". Anyway, you can't just look at a bunch of numbers and go, nobody should ever get a X14 when the G14 exists. I tried them back to back, and the X14 won.

@@jedisoldier I'm pretty sure it's an error, lol. For every other Dell computer, going from 16 to 32 adds $150, but for the X14, it's only a $50 jump, and that makes it an amazing deal for me because I wanted 32, and yeah, the drivers for the X14 are so much better and more stable than the G14. The G14 bluescreened on me a lot when I was messing with graphical options, whereas the X14 works well enough with default settings. Where the G14 shines, though, is in its low-power use, where even with iGPU, it's actually pretty good, and you can easily run it on USB-C power at that point. X14 doesn't have the ability to go low-power APU only while still retaining performance.

you pointed it absolutely spot on...i have a friend with the predator 2018 model, struggling with a lot of issues eg battery trackpad some keyboard keys, etc...no proper support...lenovo id better and dell is the standard....

@@insenjojo1839 Its not even 1 year, i have reapplied thermal paste 1 time kryonaut, 2 times cooler master gel maker, my thermals give up in 2 months of paste application, windows start performing poorly, system restart is all i have to do sometimes. I never had problem with my old lenovo. I regret not buying Legion5Pro sometimes, spending some extra bucks can save some bucks later, like i have spend 40 usd in thermal paste and pads already, within 1 year warranty. I guess it is what it is, a difference between well tuned laptop (L5Pro) and just somehow assembled laptop (helios 300). The only good thing is that helios 300 is smaller and slimmer, easy to carry.

@@FriendlyPCGamers 5 pro is actually a baller of a choice...