Rivals for the Alienware 15 are other powerful 15-inch notebooks like the two Schenker devices XMG U506 and XMG P506 as well as the Aorus X5. It will be interesting to see if Alienware can handle the powerful components, and how the new Skylake processor performs compared to the old Haswell model. Our review configuration with a Core i7-6700HQ, GeForce GTX 980M, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, 256 GB NVMe-SSD + 1 TB HDD and a matte FHD-IPS panel currently retails for 2,300 Euros (~$2475). The changes of our new review sample are not limited to the GPU though the device also gets a fresh processor and DDR4 RAM for the first time. The first review update with the graphics card AMD Radeon M295X followed in June, but the GPU could not convince us. For the original German review, see here.ĭell announced the current Alienware 15 at the CES in Las Vegas earlier this year and we already reviewed the 15-inch gaming notebook with an Nvidia GTX 970M shortly after that.
