I can’t fault them.. But I want to. - Alienware M16 R2

Alienware is taking the term "laptop" more seriously by making a brave decision: making their laptop slightly less powerful, so it can actually fit in your backpack and not look so crazy in a coffee shop. With a reasonable price point and solid performance, can Alex find a reason to dislike the M16 R2?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Do you ACTUALLY want a gaming laptop?
0:21 Unboxing
0:50 Design, weight, and ports
3:14 Sponsor - UPDF
3:53 LABS display test results
5:55 Specs
7:11 Performance modes and gaming impressions
9:37 LABS performance test results
10:26 Keyboard and trackpad impressions
11:55 Speaker and webcam impressions
14:04 Teardown and LABS battery test results
15:46 Overall thoughts and pricing
16:29 Outro

[SevenGC]

Man if you brought that laptop to an airshow you wouldn't even be able to hear the sound of the jet engines when they fly by breaking the sound barrier lol!

[xnutzii]

The laptop is insanely loud and the CPU was at over 100C all the time while playing Valheim... Atrocious.

[kq]

One day, alienware's gonna make a spaceship and LTT's gonna still review it.

[irlshrek]

THAT TRACKPAD IS ABOVE AVERAGE GOD DAMNIT

[farestemari]

I had to pause the video thinking that a plane was flying low over my house. It was the Alienware.

[Nman]

Alex comparing the trackpad to the origins and I was like its not that much bigger, then he lifted it and I saw the glare and then immediately went "oh nevermind it's huge!" 😂

[EndermanAPM]

I feel like 16gb of ram is not enough, especially given the rest of the specs for a modern laptop. Heck, even the GPU has half that amount!
Windows taking half of the ram without anything open should be the signal that that's not optimal.

[carwynvan]

As a slow reader I appreciate the visual markers on the charts highlighting what you're talking about to make comparisons easier at a quick glance 👍

[gmoss]

My Dell G15 5515 is so alike with Alienware that it literally has an Alienware logo on the mobo lol

[Jzwiz]

As someone whos been through 2 high end alienware laptops (one was a warranty replacement that took over 3 months of talking to support after they broke mine). Dont. These things dont last long, are super loud, super hot and dont actually perform well. I have an m17 r2 sitting on a chair non functional because it bricked itself randomly one day, paid $200+ for a new mobo and they broke it again when they did the installation, eventually magic smoke came out and it and when i looked inside i saw whoever did the mobo replacement wrenched on stuff, stripped screws and used a damage mobo. It conveniently broke a month after i got it back meaning no warranty. Never again. Biggest upside was the keyboard, loved that thing

[chuckgraham]

Thank you for your excellent review. I ordered one for $1299.00, they are on sale now because of your review

[corey]

0:06 It's nice owning the original alienware area 51m laptop (from 2004)

[NAK]

I mean if that 101C cpu temp in valheim is accurate that would definitely be something to complain about. If that is what the temps are hitting than that cpu really has no business being in that chassis.

[shadowstyls]

U all know this?
Segue vs Segway

Segue is occasionally found spelled segway, even in edited text. There are two likely reasons for this: the familiar suffix –way (as seen in driveway and runway) seems to agree with the notion of a segue as a "path" along which something transitions; and the existence of the homophone Segway as a trade name for an American company that produces electric transportation devices. The standard spelling segue comes from the use of the word's Italian root as a direction in music, indicating a transition without interruption.

[WhiteyHD]

It looks 8 years old immediately.
Considering how sleek the asus g16 and legion 16 look these days this is way behind.

[nationalmaverick]

Its a shame about the fans, I paid nearly AUD $4000 for an X14 nearly 2 years ago and it was so loud I returned it as defective which they accepted, but Ive since found out thats what they all sound like.

[Marbeary]

the loud fan noise is like the laptop launching a rocket ship on brand for contacting aliens

[ConsitentlyInconsitent]

I bought that 240W power supply from the states because my M16 from Canada shipped with the 330 watt brick which is more than Twice as big.

[RichWithTech]

I can't fault them either, except:

The screen is dim at 375 nits and has the matt smeary coating
The fans sound like a drone and somehow it still can't cool itself
16gb RAM / rtx4050 6gb, Base for $1500?! make this the Apple of Gaming brands
Thicker and quieter > thinner and louder

On the bright side, at least the RAM is upgradable

[tsvaidyanathan]

In Video form, where the graphs are there for a second, instead of putting it as a ranking individually for each graph, maybe, give each product that spot, so for the next chart, we can see that all products are related to the same spot in every chart.