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the first OLED gaming display is here Oleg I mean I've been waiting for something to bring CRT like response time back to the PC since Canon crushed my dreams back in 2010 by officially discontinuing development of their sed technology well OLED has that potential but so far the best OLED displays are LG TVs which have notoriously terrible processing leg so the pixels can be as fast as you please but gaming still feels like telling your friend in the next term which buttons to press for you which okay sorry I digress okay so the display I'm talking about OLED gaming display it's connected to a laptop the Alienware 13 r3 now with a 13 inch OLED display in case you hadn't picked up on that before let's take her for a spin Corsairs ml fans feature magnetic levitation technology and custom engineered rotors to provide a high performance low noise experience learn more at the link in the video description the Alienware 13 strike says fine a balance between tastefully aggressive looking and gaudy and tacky as any gaming PC with an alien theme possibly could and rocks a pretty strong i/o configuration with USB type-c and type-a SuperSpeed ports on the right an additional type a and dedicated headphone and mic ports on the left and gigabit killer Ethernet mini DisplayPort HDMI 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 Alienware proprietary external GPU dock connector and power in at the back flanked by some large rear heat sinks that vent hot air down back and up for optimal cooling immediately noticeable are both its size and weight considering the Alienware 13s 13-inch screen size so the numbers listed on dell site are meaningless the depth is based on the edge even though the center is a full centimeter more I can't for the life of me figure out where they measure the twenty three point three millimeter height and the width is off by a whopping six centimeters oops but anyway when I measured it myself it worked out to about 2 liters of internal volume so for comparison the razorblade 14 with quite similar specs comes in at less than 3/4 of that while weighing half a kilogram less so how can Dell justify it well easy upgrade ability is one good way making our way to the bottom these five normal Phillips head screws are all that stand between you and the m dot two slots that you can use to upgrade or add SSDs and RAM slots that you can use to install up to 32 gigs of DDR 4 Ram just like that inspire and value gaming machine that we checked out here unlike that one however the Alienware 13 is packing some serious heat under the plastic cover that protects all the stuff that you shouldn't be tooling around with this tricked out config got a core i7 HQ quad-core with hyper-threading 16 gigs of ram a 512 gign beany SSD and a vr capable gtx 1060 with 6 gigs of Ihram that ended up packing more of a punch than I expected more on that later first let's flip this puppy over and talk about the important stuff that you're going to see and touch every time you use the machine the RGB lighting there are nine lighting zones including this is the first time I've seen this one an RGB trackpad which admittedly actually looks really cool too bad its functionality could be improved it does track accurately and feels very responsive to the touch but I found it a bit small and I found the chin of the laptop combined with the depth of the clicky buttons below made them a little bit awkward to use fortunately the keyboard is mostly good news typing experience wise it's not the best that I've used but it's far from the worst the layout is very good with full sized arrow keys and the long travel distance and reassuring tactile feel were great for gaming on top of that for a small device it feels surprisingly not cramped maybe because Dell ended up stashing the speakers on the side of the unit which I was all geared up to complain about until they totally kicked my ass with solid output volume which is necessary when using speakers on a gaming laptop fans and surprisingly lifelike 3-d positional audio they ended up being a highlight of this machine along with Windows hello presence detection which by the way is still freakin amazing but not as amazing as the display boy is it beautiful so my config has the optional 2560 by 1440 OLED touchscreen monitor that boasts perfect black levels shockingly vibrant colors and some other advantages that were like a breath of fresh air for a gamer who grew up on old-school CRT monitors look at the difference in mouse movement to screen movement response time here the blade 14 at about 40 milliseconds at 60 Hertz is far from the worst I've seen but the Alienware 13 is right down around 25 milliseconds a full screen refresh faster which only accounts for faster processing time the pixel response times contribute equally to the perceived clarity and responsiveness of the display because they keep the image looking crisp even during fast camera pans it is awesome which doesn't mean though that it's perfect it suffers from best buy TV syndrome a little bit in that color saturation is off the hook but with a little bit of tuning of in-game gamma controls I think you'll find that most of the shadow crushing effects can be countered for an unreal if a little small gaming experience let's talk performance and usability now the Alienware 13 scores pretty well here in spite of the beefed up battery off wall life is unexceptional at about two hours and change in PC marks conventional work tests and one hour of continuous Crysis 3 gaming but it runs fanless ly under very light loads stays much quieter than the blade 14-under gaming loads maintains reasonable surface temperatures on both top and bottom while gaming and manages to do all of that while performing as well as the blade 14 they both end up falling behind a desktop GTX 1060 probably due to power delivery limitations but remember guys that's to be expected especially on one and a half to two liter machines which leads us then to the obvious conclusion the Alienware 13 is the hands-down winner right well maybe not who made a better computer personally I still prefer razor's approach but while I'm not ready to switch to the MacBook Pro full-time I also don't really gain that much anymore which means that I'm willing to make some compromises there for reduced weight and a larger display with that said the Alienware 13 is a better pure gaming machine in almost every way the webcam kind of sucks but the display is better the keyboard is better I mean the list goes on io cooling noise I mean heck even alien where's external GPU enclosure is cheaper if you want to upgrade your video card down the road just like the blade don't expect any of that to come cheap because this is a serious toy for serious ballers speaking of serious toys tunnel bears adorable it's got these little bears and they like tunnel around but they're also serious and that they seriously encrypt your connection and make it easy for anyone to browse privately 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