Alienware's hinge-forward design makes room for a seriously improved audio system. Its closest competitors didn't crack 300 nits.īack and louder than ever. Hitting 352 nits, the panel eclipsed the 283-nit average. MORE: Laptops with the Best Display BrightnessĪlthough it's not the most vivid screen on the block, the Alienware 17 is definitely among the brightest.

However, it's short of the 131-percent premium gaming laptop average as well as the numbers put up by the Aorus X9 and the Titan. When measured for color reproduction, the Alienware 17 hit 110 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which surpasses the 100-percent minimum and the Eon17-X's 104 percent. Despite the nonstop action, the Nvidia G-Sync technology helped prevent against image tearing by synchronizing the GPU with the panel up to 144 hertz. Geralt's bone-white tresses whipped around realistically in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as I evaded the blows of a band of bandits while returning my own. Details were sharp enough that I could see the fine grain of the paper John David Washington was reading from as well as the tightly curled coils in his well-coiffed Afro. Adam Driver's crimson-and-black flannel owned the dusty, forest-green pool hall, while yellow-and orange flames violently engulfed a white cross.

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