As part of its Dell Black Friday Sale, Dell is offering a huge discount on its most powerful gaming laptop. The Alienware m18 18" Intel Core i9 RTX 4090 gaming laptop is currently $2999.99 after a $1300 instant discount. This laptop is more powerful than most desktop PCs out there, and one of the few laptops that can even handle really intensive gaming applications like VR gaming and raytracing.
Alienware m18 18" RTX 4090 Gaming Laptop for $2999.99
This Alienware m16 laptop comes equipped with a 18" 19200x1200 display, Intel Core i9-13980HX CPU, GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, 64GB of DDR5-4800MHz RAM and a massive 4TB NVMe SSD. The 13th generation Intel Core i9-13980HX Raptor Lake processor has a boost clock speed of 5.6GHz with 24 cores, 32 threads, and 36MB cache. This is the most powerful mobile CPU in Intel's arsenal.
The 4090 is far and away the most powerful mobile GPU available by a huge margin. It's roughly equivalent to a desktop RTX 3090 / RTX 4070 Ti GPU. In real world terms, this GPU is more than capable enough of handling any game at the display's native QHD+ resolution at framerates of 60fps and beyond, even with ray tracing enabled. Like all RTX 40 series cards, the RTX 4090 supports the latest DLSS 3.0 and DLSS 3.5 technology for even better performance in games that support it.
Some laptop manufacturers gimp the GPU by reducing the amount of power supplied, thus lowering heat and power requirements. Alienware doesn't do that. Instead they compensate with a massive cooling system comprised of a system of vapor chambers, heatpipes, massive heatsinks, and fans that shift the heat away from your components and out the vents. That also means a thicker chassis than your traditional "ultraportable" laptop and, of course, higher power consumption (this one comes with a 330W power brick). However if gaming performance is your priority, Alienware laptops are at the top of the heap.
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