Alienware AW13R3-7000SLV-PUS 13.3" Gaming Laptop (7th Generation Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD, Silver) with NVIDIA GTX 1060

I've had this laptop for a few days. I'd consider myself a computer nerd, Love new tech and I was in the market for a new laptop, my old Lenovo recently met the end of its usefulness. I bought the 1080p, 256gb ssd, I7, 8gb ddr4, 1060 version of this Alienware 13 r3. The intent was to add another ssd and more ram. Immediately after receiving this device, I played on it with the purchased specs, and it was pretty snappy and fast. I since have added a 1tb m.2 ssd 2280 length in the secondary slot, that only took a couple minutes to add, along with 8gb more of ram. The machine performs admirably. I play civ5 and diablo 3 on it alot, and its very satisfying. It more then meets my performance expectations. Thing I'm most impressed with, is the build quality, oh my. As a mech. engineer, I like the durability, and choice of materials of this laptop. I feel like I really purchased something strong and that will last. I've owned quite a few desktops for gaming, and laptops for business, or gaming. This is up there as one of the best I've had or played with. I will be using this with Office 2016, and surfing the web, and gaming lightly. So far, I highly recommend it. The size is nice for portability, it isn't too heavy for me. I've noticed it gets warm like most gaming laptops, but nothing that's worry-some. I really can't say enough good things about it. Like other reviewers have said, about the Facial Identification. It's nice as well. Buy it if you want performance and small size factor.

I've only had this for a couple of weeks so keep that in mind for this review. Overall this laptop is superb! Alienware has never disappointed me and this laptop excels in every category I can think of. It's wicked fast, smooth as butter and the build quality is top notch. The display is beautiful and with an i7 and 1060 I have been able to play any new game title on at least high settings, most on maximum. It's essentially flawless. An absolute breeze to intially set up. The only non-super positive thing I can say about it is that it is somewhat larger and heavier than U might expect. However, with the right backpack or bag, for me anyway, it isn't an issue. I absolutely love this laptop! It is a marelous peice of engineering and craftmanship.

This machine is really powerful, heavy and big (despite its 13" screen). Much what I expected. What I did not expected was the screen backlight to bleed from the bottom, because some sort of adesive tape didn't do it's job. Every once in a while I need to pass my finger in the screen bottom frame to stick it to it's place again. Not what I would expect from a "premium" gaming device.

My first Alienware after tons of Lenovos and Apple. I am not a gamer but works a lot with large Excel sheets, photos and video editing. Works very smoothly and fast. Nice feel. Excellent keyboard. Have seen better trackpads. Great screen and sound. All the ports you need and more. I added a second SSD in less than 3 minutes. It weights 2.5 kg. Add almost 1 kg for the power adapter. Was worried about the battery. This is why I picked up the regular LCD screen instead of the Oled one. Gives me 4-5 hours in battery saver mode. No regrets so far for switching to Alienware

The laptop itself is one of the most beautiful and well crafted i ever see. BUT after 2min on pluged on ac adapter eh turn itself of a smell came from the ac plug on laptop. The laptop now appears to be dead. Cant turn it on because this problem. The history: I came to visit my daughter. Im from Brazil, she lives on US and i was planning to buy this laptop to my stepson. So i did buy normaly. When i arrive to my daughter house i did powered on the laptop to see if it was working and it was normal, them i just powered off. Coming back to Brazil i gave it to my stepson, he work with eletronics. He conected the ac adapter and turn on the laptop. About 2 minutes and the laptop power off and some smell came from the power jack on the laptop. The ac adapter turned off. When you plug the ac adapter he turn on, but as soon as you conect to the laptop he turn itself of and some smell came from the ac jack on the laptop. I never neither him experienced this kinda of problem. This is the 2rd laptop i brought on Us and gave to him first was a $1000 refurbished gateway worked flawless. And this was a $1599 plus taxes about $200 and did not worked at second attempt. Really disapointed with alienware, he already buyed a grafics amplifier on Brazil but here we dont have the alienware 13 r3. Neither the configurations he wanted. Sad story hope that he resolves that.

Mine arrived with a dead pixel right at the center , and the lcd seems to be lose from its frame. A quick press on all the sides held it permanently in place. This is my 2nd alienware. So far dells qc for their alienwares are horrible.

Great laptop ,great design, great build quality I love everything about this laptop from its screen to its form factor the only downside is the constant drama drops I get while gaming with it unplugged from an outlet which is a big downside as I bought it to be portable and the model I bought was $2000

The laptop is great. Used a Razor Blade 14 (2016) but that laptop developed a hardware problem. So I replaced it with the Alienware. The laptop is quite heavy and I am not a big fan of the overhang behind the screen - but the keyboard is so good that it makes up the latter part at least. In that regard the Razorbalde was better in form and weight but was significantly more expensive.