16X Aurora

I daily drive an Aurora 16 and I have no issues with the display. The motherboard failed on warranty but it was replaced. Apart from this, I really like it. It's my first Alienware/Dell. Ask if you have any more questions.

It is great option actually due to its battery’s life, It actually can stay up to 10 hours which is one of the best but one huge flaw of this one is screen, screen is just really bad and ghosting, some people might care some people might not but I personally do, so It’s up to you, you could’ve get 1

Welcome to the family! Nice choice on the Alienware 16X Aurora with the 5070 Ti and OLED. If you haven’t already, check out Performance mode in Alienware Command Center to maximize performance.

if you just want the best battery life thats the alienware aurora 16. which gets 11 hours in casual use and 3 hours even when gaming. kind of insanely good battery. (one of the few budget options with a large 99watt hour battery) unfortunately alienware aurora 16 has a bad screen https://youtu.be/l_

Not somehow worse,aurora is supposed to be budget Alienware laptop which i think they should never have released (i just got the aurora 16x) but aurora 16x is way better than 16 and they fucked the 16 with intel chips and a really bad screen and plastic all around the laptop

I'll quote this paragraph from a review at PCWorld ad verbatim: To benchmark the battery life, we play a 4K copy of Tears of Steel on repeat on Windows 11 with airplane mode activated and the keyboard backlight turned off until the laptop suspends itself. We set the screen to 250 nits of brightness

I don't know what possibly could Dell's marketing team be smoking. They made the dumbest ever decision to kill off XPS, Latitude and other decades old well established sub branding. And most importantly, they killed, or better say merged Dell G15/G16 gaming laptop line with Alienware. The Aurora 16/

The Alienware 16 Aurora doesn't have G-Sync or Advanced Optimus (required). This means, even with an external monitor connected, G-Sync is not available. Though, I believe you get access to Adaptive Sync if you only use Optimus mode when playing games. What you can do is, turn off dGPU mode (MUX) in

Only the Alienware 16X Aurora has G-Sync, the standard Alienware 16 Aurora does not have it at all. A requirement for G-Sync is Advanced Optimus, which is only available in the 16X version. Connecting the HDMI on the laptop to a G-Sync compatible external monitor does not enable G-Sync, try it, it w

That’s a good beginner Alienware laptop but if you can, go for the Aurora 16x instead. It has a better screen and better everything else. Good luck!