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I'm Dan Ackerman and we are here taking a look at the Alienware 17 of course we just looked at the Alienware 18 that model of course has an 18 inch screen this one has a 17 inch screen even though it's only a one inch difference the 17 inch model is actually a much thinner and much lighter although it's still obviously very big and heavy by laptop standards that's because that 18 inch model you can cram in two video cards in addition to two or three hard drives and a super high-end processor here in the 17 inch model it's much more like other 17-inch gaming laptops you can still fit a solid-state hard drive and a regular hard drive you get a good quad core Core i7 processor but there's only room for one video card in our case we've got an upgraded video car the very good nvidia geforce 780 m that's really the card you want to get if you're spending let's say more than $2,000 on a gaming laptop which we're doing in this case this configuration comes out to about 2,600 bucks give me a lower-end entry-level Alienware 17 for about 1500 but at that point you know why bother just get a regular old 17 inch or even a 15 inch laptop Gaming scores this thing did really well not as great as the handful of super thick gaming laptops we've seen with 2 cards but for a single card system it played our Bioshock on a Metro last light test at high settings very well I played the brand-new Battlefield 4 in here I set everything to high at full 1080 P resolution played great on some of the faster gaming systems I was however able to make the jump to ultra settings which of course is what you get when you go past high if you want to have a a desktop replacement laptop that doesn't look all that garish you know it's got a nice muted matte black design even though it has the standard Alienware lights you can get a very highly configurable system here with the Alienware 17 and if you're willing to spend maybe that $2,000 little bit more you get a really nice configuration for your money I'm Dan Ackerman and that is the Alienware 17 you