Design
Alienware 17 is very much similar to the Alienware 18. Apart of the size both are very much identical to each other. Its solid body feels very high-end in the hand with a soft touch hand. Most of the part of its body is made from gray anodized aluminum with a thick band of black. Its edges are also very soft and rounded throughout the design. It has a 17.9 x 12.9 x 2.23-2.23 inch dimension with 9.2 lbs weight out of 9.4 pounds on its own and 11.4 pounds with its power cable which is still heavy but noticeably lighter. Its keyboard tray has a 1.75 inch size which is good for gamer who spend a lot of their time on the WASD keys. Its large keys are placed at the top to avoided accidental keystrokes. It has the large Shift, Control and other keys often used in PC gaming are very well placed. It has also a full number pad to its right side. Its touch pad has a good size which keeps separate physical left and right mouse buttons. At the left side of it we have a Kensington lock slot and the power jack towards the rear with HDMI and Mini-Display port in the middle. It has also 2 USB 3.0 port as well as three audio jacks towards the front. On the left side it has a glossy power button glowed warmly due to its elegant lighting. Similarly on its right side it has LAN port with 2 USB 3.0 ports are pushed all the way to the back. On its front edge it has two speakers with a 2 megapixel camera along an integrated stereo microphone. It has wrapping a strip of light around the sides and backlighting the touchpad which gives it a cool and fabulous look. Its logo in the bizel and keyboard light up as well. Just like its previous generation user can choose or custom their own profile which gives option to user who can assign 20 colors to each of the notebook’s 10 zones.
Display
Screen is one of the key feature when you selecting a laptop for purchasing and especially when you want to purchase it for gaming purpose. It has a dynamic and large 17.3 inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels along full HD display. Its screen is not glossy as on the Alienware 17. Its anti-glare display is specially appreciated and prevent the annoying glare that glossy display exhibit. It gives us an eye- catching bright, Clean and colorful display. Its color reproduction is quite decent but it is not suitable for professional graphic artist. Its viewing angles are as broad as you'd expect on an IPS display, you shouldn't have any trouble working with the machine in your lap, or sharing the screen with a friend while you watching movies with your friends and family, you can watch display from any angle or any place (Indoor or outdoor). It has an IPS display which is "nice to have" on a laptop. It has a full HD display which will give pleasure especially when you play the games on it then you will realize the actual quality of its screen. Picture quality is also very good with its color balancing. It has some minor bleeding in the upper and lower display edges. With the 307 lux, it’s outperforming both the 249 lux desktop replacement average and the 240 lux display of the GT70. Its display panel is matte and decently bright, especially when looking at the dark screen content.
Speakers
Alienware 17 provides you a two quality stereo speaker mounted at the bottom side of the laptop under the palm rest. Its volume output is loud and good enough for a small conference room. Its audio performance is also up to standard and you will enjoy a quality sound during video conference, movies, listening songs or playing 3D games. We don’t have any issue with its sound quality even when we turned up to its volume, although the speakers start distorting at around 75%. It has a Dolby Home Theater v4 audio (tuned stereo speakers, headphone output and audio processing software) which deliver a better multimedia experience. It has a VoIP conversation as well as other sounds like explosions which gives good pleasure to the user while he playing games.
Battery
Alienware 17 gives you a (86WH) good battery which provides you a nine hours battery backup. Due to its different power saving options its battery back time can increase 4 more hours. So it is fair to say that you can not spend much time away from outlet. On the Laptop Battery Test (web surfing through Wi-Fi) Alienware 17 score 4 hours and 9 minutes which is jut 2 minutes less than average time that is 4 hours 11 minutes. During the gaming test battery give us just an hour and than we have to recharge it. Important thing is that the GPU performance is severely reduced.
Performance
Alienware 17 has a 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 4800MQ power full processor with 16GB of RAM and 1600MHZ DDR3 SDRAM. In addition it has a 4 GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M. It is perfectly capable of handling any streaming HD video you want to watch and can even play some games. Its non gaming application performance is better than Alienware 18 with Core i7 even if you are a heavy multitask person. Because Aliemware 17 is a gaming laptop so here its gaming performance is a matter which is good. It has three storage drives. First one is a 256GB SSD. Secondary it has 750GB hard drive which can increase up to 16 and 32 GB of RAM is available. You will enjoy for playing the latest 3D games and intensive work like Adobe Photoshop and video editing. In PC Mark 7 test Alienware 17 scores 4193 points which is an average score. Similarly it takes 35 seconds for booting Windows 7 which match the average time. On the other hand file transfer test it duplicated 4.97GB of multimedia files in 28 seconds which is well above the average time.
Conclusion
Alienware 17 is very much similar to the Alienware 18. It has a good solid and thick body with its soft edges rounded throughout the design. It has a good gaming laptop but apart of gaming its performance is up to average. It has a large 17.3 inch large LCD with 1920 x 1080 pixels along full HD display. Although its claim that it has a good battery backup but this battery is not good for a gaming laptop. It has a good pear of stereo speaker which producing a quality sound. It is a good gaming laptop but it is not good for business purpose.
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