This Alienware gaming laptop sits smack-bang in my PC gaming sweet spot with $600 off and an RTX 4070 under the hood
Alienware m16 R2 | RTX 4070 | Intel Core Ultra 7 155H | 16-inch | 1600p | 1 TB SSD | 16 GB DDR5 5600 | $1,899.99$1,299.99 at Best Buy (save $600)
This Alienware gaming laptop not only offers what we'd expect to see in a $1,200 machine in 2024, but it comes with one somewhat unexpected item. That's the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, a low-power processor from the Meteor Lake generation. With 16 cores total, this chip makes a good pairing with a 140 W RTX 4070 for a smart gaming laptop overall.
Price check: Dell $1,299.99 (with Core Ultra 9/RTX 4060)
If you're in the market for a Black Friday gaming laptop deal, you've come to the right place. I've just spotted a deal over at Best Buy that sees this Alienware m16 R2 gaming laptop going for $1,300 ($600 off). That's a much better price for this machine that you'll find even over in Dell's own Black Friday sale.
It's a pretty nifty machine from the specs sheet. An RTX 4070 is a given at this price, but the choice of processor is a little outside of the norm. It's an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H—that's one of Intel's Meteor Lake processors.
Meteor Lake was devised as a lower-power mobile processor mostly for thin-and-light laptops. Though we've seen more and more of them making the shift to gaming machines, such as the HP Omen Transcend 14. We liked the chip in that machine, it performed well in our own benchmarking, even if it did get a bit toasty in that small shell.
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