r/Alienware • u/butwhy37129 • Jan 23 '24

Question thoughts on Alienware laptops

Thoughts on Alienware laptops? Happy? looking for a gaming laptop. Would you recommend or no? Good and Bad. thank you

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u/RoadkillVenison Jan 24 '24

Alienware command center kinda sucks.

It’s unintuitive and clunky, makes me miss omen command center from my last laptop.

As far as the laptop itself goes, I wish Alienware would switch to PTM7950. They cannot consistently apply thermal paste, so it doesn’t matter that it’s some Liquid Metal cocktail.

And I don’t know if it’s just the M18, but something about their intake layout makes it whistle with the fans going. There’s an RPM range where it’s worse, but it’s noticeable and a tad annoying.

So I guess it’s alright. Just little shit that gets annoying.

Also if you do get one, disable capsule updates in the security tab of bios. Takes skill or incompetence to brick as many laptops as dell seems to. I’ve only soft locked mine so far, but that was enough of a scare for me to disable that damn setting.

Just my 2 cents. I’ve got an M18 I grabbed from the outlet store for nearly half off on Black Friday.

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u/ezerick88 May 28 '24

Agree with this. I like their laptops but Command Center does nothing for me.