Right now, laptop makers that don’t support some kind of AMD-based setup are kind of trolling even now. Alienware has finally returned to the board It is the first gaming laptop powered by AMD in more than a decade.
With the new m15 Ryzen Edition R5, Alienware is launches its first AMD laptop from Aurora mALX in 2007, which at the time came with a massive 19-inch screen, an AMD Turion 64 processor, a small 2 GB RAM and not one, but two Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GPUs GTX. Soffices to say that things have changed quite a bit in 14 years.
On the new m15 Ryzen Edition R5, Alienware supports up to one Ryzen R9 5900HX CPU with eight cores and an Nvidia RTX 3070 GPU with 8 GB of vRAM. Like the existing one Alienware R4 line, the m15 Ryzen edition also comes with a number of display options, including 165Hz or 360Hz Full HD screens or a 240Hz QHD screen.
Alienware also offers optional 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM for the first time, while the refurbished laptop chassis has an updated design with stronger Cryo-Tech cooling and a new high-strength paint that Dell claims is thinner and thinner. sustainable than before. And, as you would expect, the m15 Ryzen Edition R5 also offers a healthy selection of ports and connectivity, including HDMI 2.1, Ethernet 2.5 Gbps, Wi-Fi 6 and four USB ports (three type A and one type C). And as previously announced on Alienware m15 R4, m15 Ryzen Edition R5 can also be equipped with The new MX Ultra Low Profile Cherry switches (although this upgrade will cost you extra).
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The new Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 (which is a real mouthpiece) will go on sale on April 20 for just under $ 1,800.
Alternatively, if you are looking for a more affordable system gaming laptopThe parent company Alienware Dell also announces the new edition Dell G15 Ryzen, which has up to an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor combined with a GPU from the Nvidia 1650 or RTX 30 series, but with a much lower starting price of only 900 USD (with an updated Dell G15 powered by Intel, which arrives this spring starting at 1,000 USD).
In addition to support for AMD processors, the biggest change for G15 Ryzen Edition is the addition of a new cooling technology that uses larger copper heat pipes to better cool the bottom of the laptop and a refreshed design with four new finishes: dark gray, spectral green with spots, ghost gray with spots and obsidian black.
The Intel-based G15 will be available first on April 13, followed by the G15 Ryzen Edition on May 4.
Finally, to go along with its new laptops, Dell also announces an updated family of gaming monitors, including the new Dell 25 gaming monitor, which offers a 240Hz refresh rate and support for both Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium technology, along with three new curved monitors with 144Hz or 165Hz refresh rates and AMD FreeSync available in 27-inch, 32-inch and 34-inch sizes.