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i'm dan ackerman we are here taking a look at the alienware 14 allie ware a division of dallas stripped down its product names at least these used to be called things like the m14 or m14x now it's just the alienware 14 as you can tell it has a 14 inch screen unlike most of the laptops that we've seen this year this is not a touchscreen in fact even honor it's not even windows 8 this is actually a Windows 7 laptop although you can get Windows 8 as an add-on that's largely because the gamers seem to prefer windows 7 they don't like to go through the windows 8 tile interface to get to their games I think at the end of the day it doesn't really make a huge difference this has windows 7 which may feel like a bit of a throwback all the villain like a throwback is the fact that this thing is huge for 14 s laptop look how thick and gigantic and heavy this is you could really stack up two or three ultrabooks next to it and get to about the same thickness of course that's so they can cram in all the high end gaming parts an alienware like other high-end gaming laptop manufacturers gives you a lot of options to choose a you know CPUs and GPUs and different types of hard drives I was pleasantly surprised at this particular configuration we have that 1799 it's got a 4th generation Intel Core i7 CPU it's got in videos 765m GPU which is pretty good and it's got a dual hard drive that's a 256 gig solid-state drive and a 750 gig regular hard drive all that together was 1799 it's not a huge bargain but I'm very comfortable paying that price for those parts in this model especially because it has a full 1920 x 1080 screen and the other 14 inch super gaming laptop that we've seen recently the razor blade 14 it's much thinner has reasonably similar parts but it has a terrible screen that has a lower resolution and does not look nearly as nice as this one of course because it's an alien where'd you get all the crazy kooky lights like back here and little running lights on the side I particularly like the the backlit touchpad that's a new touch that is probably the only kind of goofy visual aesthetic thing that I really like about the rest of it is a little bit the dorm room shake but if you're in the market for an alienware you know what you're getting i'm dan ackerman and that is the dell alienware 14