WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.190 --> 00:00:01.520 This may not surprise you, 2 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:05.160 but Dell has a lot of new gaming laptops at CES this year, 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:10.040 both from Alienware and from Dell proper. Now if you look at the Alienware line, 4 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:14.000 there's the X-er and the M Series. The X-er is thinner, 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.440 the M series is more full power. 6 00:00:15.810 --> 00:00:19.040 So on the X line they're gonna have 14 inch and 16 inch models. 7 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:23.520 And on the M line they're gonna have 16 inch and get ready for this 18 inch 8 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:27.680 models more on that in a second. And then there's also the Del G series, 9 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:31.040 which is their lower cost, uh, gaming laptops. 10 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:34.200 They're gonna have 15 inch and 16 inch versions of those that are actually 11 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.200 pretty different from the ones that, uh, you've seen previously. 12 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:45.680 And I'm excited about this series of changes and new models because the Alien 13 00:00:45.680 --> 00:00:49.880 Wear X 15 was one of my favorite gaming laptops of 2022. 14 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:55.080 And the Dell G 15 and G 16 I thought were really good budget gaming 15 00:00:55.080 --> 00:01:00.040 laptops. So in 2023 you got big changes across the board. First of all, 16 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.440 visually Alien Wear has this design language that they call Legend, 17 00:01:04.620 --> 00:01:07.760 and this is gonna be the third iteration of that. Uh, 18 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.200 they did a lot of focus group testing, a lot of design ideas and sketches and, 19 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.240 and mood boards. Uh, so they went through one two. 20 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:18.520 This new version of it is shifting a little bit away from the previous one, 21 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:22.400 which had a lot of like Matt White, kind of stark futuristic look, uh, 22 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:26.120 kind of designs. Uh, this is more silver and dark metal, 23 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.240 but still a lot of contrast. Uh, so just, you know, 24 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:32.440 an evolution of that legend design. They also took the, uh, 25 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:37.360 little FJ under the laptop and made it more of a all around rectangle that goes 26 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:40.800 under there, almost like a little laptop, uh, mini stand underneath it. 27 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:43.240 And that allows for better airflow. Uh, 28 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:47.320 they've also cleaned up the back of the units to make them a little flatter, 29 00:01:47.470 --> 00:01:50.640 a little easier to pick up and carry when you have a close kind of put it under 30 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:51.800 your arm. Uh, 31 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:54.760 the previous versions kind of stuck out a little bit in the back and we're not 32 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:57.560 as easy to, uh, carry around. Interestingly, 33 00:01:57.580 --> 00:02:01.080 all the screens are moving to a 16 by 10 aspect ratio, 34 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:04.480 which is becoming increasingly common across laptops everywhere. 35 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:09.800 And this further differentiates gaming laptops from console gaming on a TV where 36 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:12.440 you're playing on a 16 by nine tv. That has not changed, 37 00:02:12.440 --> 00:02:15.360 not changing any time soon, but a lot of laptops, 38 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.720 even gaming ones are going 16 by 10 now. 39 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:21.520 That gives you a little more height so it changes the resolution that you're 40 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.600 gonna be playing at. And it just gives you, you know, 41 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:27.080 less of a wide screen look more top to bottom space. Uh, 42 00:02:27.230 --> 00:02:30.240 I find that's frankly more practical for a lot of things. Not just gaming, 43 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.720 but also reading documents, scrolling through webpages. 44 00:02:32.870 --> 00:02:35.560 I think it's a welcome change and almost everyone's adopting it. 45 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.320 Now another thing they're adding that everyone else is adopting is full HD 46 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:41.560 webcams. That's just table stakes. Now, frankly, 47 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:45.040 if you don't have a full HD webcam on anything that's not a super budget 48 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:45.670 computer, 49 00:02:45.670 --> 00:02:48.160 I don't know what you're doing cuz we're all doing the hybrid work now. 50 00:02:48.160 --> 00:02:49.400 We're all on a lot of video meetings. 51 00:02:49.420 --> 00:02:53.920 You need a at least a 1920 by 10 80 full HD resolution webcam. 52 00:02:54.190 --> 00:02:55.280 I think we're getting there now. 53 00:02:55.420 --> 00:02:58.960 And I think the biggest overall news out of the New Alien we're systems is that 54 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:03.840 that there's gonna be an M Series 18, the Alien Wear M 1818 inch screen. 55 00:03:04.190 --> 00:03:08.760 It's not the only 18 inch screen gaming laptop I've seen for CES so far this 56 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:10.240 year. Clearly that's gonna be a trend. 57 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:14.040 I think almost everyone is gonna end up with an 18 inch gaming laptop. I, 58 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:16.240 for one think that's super cool. We have not had those in a while. 59 00:03:16.350 --> 00:03:19.920 I went and looked back at my own reporting history and I found that I had 60 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:22.760 reviewed an 18 inch alien where back in 2013, 61 00:03:23.110 --> 00:03:26.480 I think that might've been the last year they had that. But these big screens, 62 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:27.320 I think they're super cool, 63 00:03:27.320 --> 00:03:29.640 especially when you can make the laptops a little bit thinner, 64 00:03:29.640 --> 00:03:30.160 a little bit lighter. 65 00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:34.000 They're not like the giant tanks that older 18 inch screen laptops were. 66 00:03:34.330 --> 00:03:36.800 So the new alien wear systems, including that M 18, 67 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:41.200 they're gonna have the next generation Intel and Nvidia parts also amd, 68 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:45.440 but for Intel, that's gonna be the 13th gen, uh, core Eye Series chips. 69 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:48.040 It's gonna be the 4,000 series GPUs from Nvidia. 70 00:03:48.190 --> 00:03:51.120 I think you're gonna see that in a lot of gaming laptops, uh, 71 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:52.600 starting in CES and you know, 72 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.080 going throughout the year and for something like this big giant 18 inch laptop, 73 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.000 obviously cooling is a big deal. There's a bigger vapor chamber, 74 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:00.720 there's more heat pipes. Uh, 75 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.280 they've expanded the fans to put more air through it. 76 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.400 All things you need when you have just a giant hulking box like this. 77 00:04:06.660 --> 00:04:09.440 The other big notable thing is the X 16, 78 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:11.920 which is a slim 16 inch gaming laptop. 79 00:04:12.230 --> 00:04:16.960 Dell has not had a 16 inch gaming laptop since apparently 2004. 80 00:04:17.380 --> 00:04:20.160 Now getting away from alien wear cuz that's expensive stuff. 81 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:21.560 Dell also has the G series, 82 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.840 which I've always liked because it brings in some of the alien wear stuff. Uh, 83 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:29.600 but it's closer in spirit to Dell's modest Inspiron laptops. 84 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.520 But they don't call it that. They just call it the G series. 85 00:04:31.820 --> 00:04:33.960 And they have as they had in 2022, 86 00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:37.520 they have a 15 inch the G 15 and they have a 16 inch the G 16. 87 00:04:37.610 --> 00:04:42.480 There's not a ton new here other than moving up to the current generation, 88 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:46.400 that 13th generation Intel, the new Nvidia 4,000 series, 89 00:04:46.420 --> 00:04:51.120 new a d chips and GPUs. Uh, the big change here I see as visual. 90 00:04:51.190 --> 00:04:55.400 It's really a striking, bold design that I would not expect to see in a budget. 91 00:04:55.400 --> 00:04:58.280 Gaming laptop instead of just kind of dull gray. 92 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:01.800 The previous G series laptops just look very generic. Uh, 93 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.240 there's a lot of bold contrast, bold colors here. 94 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.480 There's purple and blue and bright matte white, 95 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.280 all kind of shoved together and you really have some great looks, 96 00:05:10.280 --> 00:05:13.400 really stands out. Uh, listen, laptops are very visual. 97 00:05:13.400 --> 00:05:16.000 You carry 'em around with you. They sit on your desk, you want 'em to look nice. 98 00:05:16.390 --> 00:05:19.280 I appreciate anybody who has a bold new design look. 99 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:22.920 And I think these are frankly some of the coolest looking laptops I've seen at 100 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:26.160 ces. Even though they're not the fanciest and not the most expensive, 101 00:05:26.660 --> 00:05:28.880 the alien wear laptops are coming this winter. 102 00:05:28.880 --> 00:05:31.480 They're gonna start with high end configurations first. Uh, 103 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.200 the M 18 is gonna start at $2,900. 104 00:05:34.660 --> 00:05:38.920 The G Series laptops are coming in the spring. They of course start much less, 105 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:42.120 uh, they're gonna start at eight 50 and go up from there. Uh, 106 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.320 the G series is usually a really good value for PC gaming and I don't see that 107 00:05:46.520 --> 00:05:47.880 changing in 2023.