Dell’s Alienware 13 gaming notebook has been a favorite among gamers on the go and power users that want a little more horsepower in a light, 13-inch machine. However, over the past couple of years, the Alienware team hasn’t changed-up the design much, until today that is. The company is officially making the OLED display powered Alienware 13, that we saw back in January at CES, available today in conjunction with the E3 show out in LA. Our initial impressions in the short time we’ve had the system in-house are similar to our first impressions at CES; hell yes, that OLED display sure is gorgeous. Although, the new Alienware 13 – OLED is also representative of a full revamp (except for the skins), from its 6th generation Intel Skylake Core series processor to its NVMe Solid State Drive that’s on board as well.
As one might surmise, coupled with its platform refresh and that QHD (2560X1440) OLED display driving its imagery, the result is a deluxe mobile computing and gaming experience the likes of which is some of the best we’ve laid eyes and hands on to date. As such, we thought we’d share a little video review tease, ahead of our full review that is on tap in the coming week or so…
High level system specs for the Alienware 13 OLED that we’re testing now are as follows:
- 2560X1400 QHD OLED Touch Display With 300 Nits Brightness, 104% Color Gamut
- Intel Core i7-6500U Dual-Core Processor With Boost To 3.1GHz
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M With 4GB GDDR5
- 8GB LPDDR3-1600MHz RAM
- 512GB Samsung PM951 NVMe PCI Express Solid State Drive
- Killer Networking Gigabit Ethernet And 802.11ac 2×2 WiFi
- Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C Port
- Alienware Graphics AMP Port
- 52 wHr Battery
- 4.537 Lbs.
- Starting At $899 – $1949 As Tested
In terms of the benchmarks, our initial tests show relatively strong results for the machine, with playable frame rates from 1080p to 1440p (native res) at high image quality settings with some games. Battery life testing is still in the works but Skylake‘s power efficiency coupled with the efficiency of the 13.3-inch OLED panel, seems to be paying off with respectable untethered up-time in light duty everyday computing workloads (think 5+ hours or so). Though obviously when you light up that NVIDIA GPU for gaming, this compact little beast certainly gulps a lot more juice.
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