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Alienceware 13: a 13-inch laptop ready for VR gaming

2016-11-03
while back I put together a wish list for a new gaming laptop including everything I'd like to see in a single system even if a lot of it was wishful thinking I wonder the small semi portable 13 inch laptop but it had to have at least decent graphics for gaming and of course virtual reality plenty of big 17 inch laptops at VR support for the oculus rift and HTC vive where that was impossible to get in a 13 inch gaming laptop if I was really reaching I'd also say give me an OLED display that's the Super Clear super bright new screens found only in a handful of high-end televisions and laptops and also make it a touchscreen well this newly redesigned Alienware third team from Dell pretty much hits all those marks it's not exactly tiny but it's around 5 pounds and small enough to carry around it's got one of invidious new geforce 1060 graphics cards a new generation that fits in just about any laptop and works with VR I hooked up my oculus rift and every game I tried worked great and it's got the same touch screen OLED display as the Alienware 13 I tested a few months ago which is when I absolute favorite laptop screens if you start using an old ed laptop it's hard to go back to anything else now two flaws neither of them fatal but be aware one this high-end oled configuration is $2,100 yikes and more importantly it only has two regular USB ports and two USB type-c ports that means when I hooked up the oculus rift I needed one port for the headset one for the camera and one for the game controller that's one more regular USB port than I have so I had to get creative and find a USBC dongle and then play around with different ports and dongles until I found a combination where everything worked you
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