For Cyber Monday, Alienware dropped the price of the Alienware m18 R2 RTX 4090 gaming laptop for $2999.99 shipped. The Alienware m18 is the biggest and most powerful Alienware laptop you can buy. It's clearly designed to be a mobile desktop replacement and, equipped with the right specs (like the RTX 4090 mobile GPU), it has the potential to be more powerful than most dedicated gaming desktop PCs. This particular configuration is as high-end as you can go, with Intel's most powerful i9 processor and Nvidia's most powerful mobile GPU.
Alienware m18 R2 RTX 4090 Gaming Laptop
The Alienware m18 "R2" model is the 2024 update to Alienware's flagship gaming laptop. The only changes from the prior year model are the transition to Intel's 14th gen HX processors and Wi-Fi 7 support. The Alienware m18 boasts exceptional build quality with a premium bead-blasted anodized aluminum chassis, full-sized keyboard with numpad, and an aggressive Cryo-Tech cooling sytem that incorporates a vapor chamber with quad heatpipes and four exhaust fans.
This configuration can't be any more powerful. If features an 18" 1920x1200 480Hz FHD+ display (can be swapped to 2560x1600 165Hz QHD+ for free), Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU, GeForce 4090 (mobile) GPU, 64GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a 4TB NVMe SSD. The 14th generation Intel Core i9-14900HX processor holds 24 cores and 32 threads with a max turbo clock speed of 5.8GHz. Currently, you won't find a better Intel mobile chip. In fact, it's actually more powerful than any of the recently released Intel Core Ultra 9 CPUs.
The RTX 4090 mobile GPU has a maximum TGP wattage of 165W (150W + 15W dynamic boost). This is still the most powerful mobile GPU on the market, and by a very substantial margin. It's roughly equivalent to a desktop RTX 3090 GPU. It can easily run any game on the 2560x1600 or 1920x1200 display as well as any externally connected higher resolution gaming monitor. In fact, this is the only mobile GPU I'd personally recommend for 4K gaming. A GPU this powerful requires a lot of power, so the laptop includes a hefty 330W power brick. If this is going to be your primary gaming rig and you don't want to be limited by portablity, then there's no better choice than the 4090.
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