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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is the review of the Alienware 15 r3 so it's been redesigned for 2016 it's got GTX 10 series cards in it and it's got a completely new design aesthetic it has the hinge forward design again like the 13 inch but this model the 15 inch was actually easier for me to get used to the 13 inch has the same hinge but because of the proportions it just looks nicer on the 15 inch to me it's built well aluminum paneling on the top and bottom the base in particular feels really solid and when you're handling a big laptop like this it's nice when there's no chassis flex it's thinner than before by around 25% it's pretty significant but it's still heavy a big part of that weight comes from the 99 watt hour battery now this is an optional battery it's actually the legal limit for how big of a battery you can stick into a laptop but I'm getting around 6 hours of battery life with it which is pretty good on a gaming laptop to open it up pretty simple 7 screws and once inside you can upgrade your 2 RAM sticks and your drives there's room for 4 drives in total a two and a half inch SATA and then there's three m2 drives a lot of laptops have light up logos and keyboards put these side lights these are fresh I love them they're kind of retro like neon tube lights but at the same time they're kind of futuristic like Tron fully customizable and I think they're really awesome on top of these light strips are some ports there are audio jacks three USB threes but one of them is a type C port and then on the back we have Ethernet display outputs Thunderbolt 3 port and the graphics amplifier port so it can connect to all of the external GPUs out there there's no SD card slot which I thought was a little weird but it is a gaming laptop and they filled all the extra space with battery cells so I'm ok with it this unit is running the 4k exo IPS option reasonably bright srgb gama is good but the color accuracy is okay even after calibration it's not perfect still it's an excellent screen for gaming and media consumption the webcam looks ok and it has infrared capabilities for Windows hello login the keyboard has customizable zone lighting but it has one quirk the page up and page down keys are near the directional key so you might miss click them at first and same with the macro keys you might be hitting one instead of Tildy or escape but it's a really good keyboard all-around plush key travel at two point two millimeters and it's really nice to type on the trackpad is almost identical to last year's and that's a good thing it has that customizable light-up surface accurate tracking and the physical buttons have a nice mechanism now last year if you had the 4k display panel the graphics chips on these laptops weren't powerful enough to really support 4k gaming this year if you get the gtx 1070 you can get some nice visuals at 4k if you want but I think 1440p is the sweet spot Far Cry primal averaged around 60 frames per second at 1440p on ultra graphic settings doom hovered around 100 frames per second maybe a little less on ultra graphics at 1440p at 4k it drops to around 50 frames per second so still very playable witcher 3 was averaging around 55 frames per second on Ultra at 1440p and this is with hair works off only something lighter like overwatch can break 60 frames per second at 4k on Ultra but on a 15-inch screen I don't really notice the extra resolution when I'm playing I got to stop and stare at the pixels and if VR is your thing even the base model with the GTX 1060 is fully VR ready the speakers are very good it's a 15-inch laptop so the speakers are a good size and have decent space for a laptop they distort a little bit at max volume but overall they sound great the thermals are good even let's pack in a really powerful video card in there on benchmarks surface temperatures are still comfortable to use and there's no throttling fan noise has improved a lot from the previous generation they still turn on frequently but they're much quieter even on to so the redesigned Alienware 15 starts at 1350 for the base model with a gtx 1060 we're getting great build quality in a thin but heavier package the four kxo panel is fast and great for gaming but lacks perfect color accuracy the keyboard and trackpad are quite similar to the previous generation both are comfortable to use on the inside the gtx 1070 and the skylake 6700 HQ push out killer gaming performance and have better thermal management than last year the two RAM slots and the four drive bays are easily accessed and upgraded and the huge 99 watt hour battery gets around six hours of battery life overall I really liked the revamp the GTX 10 series cards are really great performers the design aesthetic I like this one a lot more than the old especially the sidelights and the thermal management is much improved from the previous generation it's not an ideal device for a content creator I know I was interested in this for content creation but the 4k screen doesn't have perfect color accuracy and it doesn't have an SD card slot but if you're a gamer and you're looking for strong gaming performance in a really nice-looking package check this one out hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time you