In general, the first-of-its-kind products always leave a deep impression on people. There is no doubt that Dell's Alienware 13 OLED is such a product. Although there are many notebooks that use OLED displays at CES 2016, Alienware is the first one to be sold, and now we have it. OLED screens are generally brighter than IPS screens, with contrast, color saturation, and responsiveness. The same is true, and the OLED is also more power-efficient (Translator's Note: The original has omissions, in fact, the brightness of the OLED screen has been lower than the IPS of the same generation) . Mobile phones have been using OLEDs as screens for some time. The screens of mobile phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge have won us hearts because their screens can provide a higher brightness and brighter colors on OLED screens. Watching photos is more colorful.
However, OLED screens are not cheap, and usually OLED displays or TVs over 30 inches in price will cost up to several thousand dollars. With the improvement of manufacturing processes, OLED displays are gradually being used in various mainstream electronic devices. Gradually, high-end electronic products such as Alienware 13 are also equipped with OLED screens.
Alienware stuffed the latest sixth-generation Skylake processor into this 4.5-pound (about 4 pounds) heavy gaming notebook. In addition to this beautiful OLED screen, although its appearance is similar to its family's products, it actually It has great changes underneath it.
Parameter configuration
Processor: Intel Core i7 dual-core processor, clocked at 2.5GHz (highest Turbo to 3.1GHz)
System: Windows 10, 64-bit Home Edition
Screen: 13.3-inch OLED display, resolution 2560 x 1440, 1ms response time
Storage: 512GB M.2 NVMe PCI-E SSD
Memory: 8GB LPDDR3-1600
Audio: Creative Soundblaster X-Fi MB3, Klipsch 2.0 Microphone
Camera: 2 megapixel camera, support 1080P shooting, dual microphone
Data Connection: Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1
Left Interface: One USB 3.0, Headphone/Microphone Interface, Power Interface, Latch
Right side interface: One USB 3.0, one Thunderbolt-enabled USB Type-C interface, one Gigabit Ethernet LAN interface
Rear Interface: One Graphics AMP Interface, One HDMI 1.4 Interface
Battery: 4-cell 62 Whr battery
Weight: 4.537 lbs (about 4.1 kg)
Body size: 12.91mm x 9.25mm x 1.09mm
Light: backlit keyboard, 8 zones can be customized light color
Warranty: 1 year hardware warranty
In addition to ultra-fast SSDs, Alienware 13 is also equipped with a Thunderbolt-supported USB Type-C interface. The bandwidth is high enough. Another upgrade to the AW 13 is its GPU, equipped with the GeForce GTX 965M. Its predecessor, the GTX 960M, is a bit more advanced. It can provide 1024 shader units and 64 texture units, but the 965M is not as much worse than the 960M. In our game performance tests, it is only about 10-15% improvement. .
The design of the AW 13 is not much different from its family product. The iconic shell and an alien's portrait are set on it. It looks very similar to the Alienware 13 R2. To be honest, I think Dell is also Time to update the appearance of their Alienware laptops, perhaps to put them on aluminum alloy body? How are all better than the current plastic material body, but we still like the fuselage that oblique cut edge, looks very muscular.
Either way, the most significant upgrade point you can see at a glance is its new OLED display, 2560 x 1440 resolution, 300 nits brightness, 1ms pixel response speed and 104% Adobe RGB The gamut looks absolutely beautiful.
When I first looked at Dell's XPS 15, my whole person was stunned by its screen. The screen with almost no borders looked shocking, and its contrast, brightness, and saturation were excellent. Although the Alienware 13 OLED's wide border can be a horse carriage, but when you first saw this OLED screen, I believe you will be very shocked, because it is awesome, this 13.3-inch screen brightness It's high enough, and it can achieve nearly pure black, high-saturation colors that can grab your eye almost instantly. This screen is simply flawless. I simply love this display. We rarely give a screen like this. In terms of high evaluation, it is really a high-quality screen. Other notebooks can't compare with it. No matter where it is, AW 13 OLED should be even better.
By the way, OLED will still have a chance to burn, especially if you always display a static image, the chance of burning screen is higher than that of IPS. In fact, this is only a few cases. We are talking to Alienware. We also talked about this issue, and they said that Dell will provide after-sales protection in this regard, so do not have to be so nervous.
After we tested this machine for a while, we discovered that one of the highlights is Alienware's Graphics AMP interface. You may not know much about this interface. This is an external graphics interface. You can use a desktop-class graphics card. Insert this interface, which is similar to Razer's Razer Core. Looking further, there is an Ethernet interface, a USB 3 interface, and a USB Type-C interface with Thunderbolt function on the right side of the fuselage, and the power connector, latch, and a USB 3 connector on the left side, and an audio interface.
(Computer left, back, and right interfaces)
The AW 13 has a good touch of the keyboard, a well-defined keycap and a large touchpad. The keyboard is backlit, Alienware's AlienFX lighting system allows you to customize the light color up to 8 zones, each zone you can set to a different color, after setting the effect looks absolutely great! Keyboard input and touchpad use experience is very good. Although the area of ​​the keyboard is not as large as that of some 14-inch notebooks, the AW 13 is also very comfortable. The keystrokes are very reasonable and the key feedback is very comfortable. Although the AW 13 is a bit larger for a 13-inch notebook, it's still portable. The weight of 4.5 pounds in the bag is not particularly heavy, and you'll be happy to take it to Starbucks. In other places, I believe this laptop will not be lower than the MacBook.
(replaceable memory and hard disk)
Finally, most laptops on the market do not support late-stage memory or storage. The AW 13 can easily replace memory or storage space. It also supports M.2 interface SSDs and standard 2.5-inch SATA hard drives. .
Performance TestingBefore we started running the subtest comparison, we encountered a rather embarrassing situation because the 4.5 lb. AW 13 performance was stronger than many larger and heavier machines. We did not know which computers to compare with. , so in the image below you will see that we compared the AW 13 with some light, ultra-lower than 4 pounds, and more powerful and powerful games. You may not see who has the strongest performance. After all, There are many models available for your computer, different processors, different memory, etc. However, this data should tell you some basic information about the AW 13's daily use and game performance.
We decided to take a look at the hard drive performance of the AW 13 and we used ATTO to test its data throughput.
(ATTO Disk)
It is still very good that a notebook can behave like this, read speed 1.5GB/S, write speed 300MB/S.
(Sunspider test, the lower the value, the better)
Next, we use the Sunspider JavaScript to test the browser performance. The AW 13 OLED scored the second best result in this test, only slightly behind the XPS 15.
(Cinebench, the higher the value, the better)
Cinebench can use the CPU and GPU to render high-precision 3D scenes that will use all of the processor's cores and threads. In all our tested dual-core processors, the AW 13 OLED was the best performer, and its image performance was also the best in OpenGL testing. The AW 13 OLED demonstrated its strength as a very good handheld. Computers are used for general office and even complex image processing.
Alienware 13 OLED PCMark 8 and 3DMark Performance Tests
PCMark 8 v2 is Futuremark's latest PC performance testing tool for testing all aspects of system performance. PCMark 8 offers 5 different tests and battery life tests. Users can test which computers are more suitable for their needs.
The latest version of PCMark 8 adds image processing and video editing to Home (Home) mode and Work (Office) mode to get more comprehensive test results. We tested three modules: Home, Work, and Storage Test.
(PCMark 8, the higher the number, the better. Yellow represents storage test, dark blue represents office mode, light blue represents home mode)
The AW 13 OLEDs were lower in storage tests than the Acer S7-393, but the AW 13 performed best in the Home and Work mode tests.
(3DMark, the higher the value, the better)
In the 3DMark Firestrike and Sky Diver image performance tests, the GeForce GTX 965M of the Alienware 13 OLED performed fairly well and was a little better than the GTX 960M. In testing, Alienware kept its GPU performance while trying to control its degree of heat. It's pretty good.
"BioShock: Infinity" is a game based on Epic's Unreal 3 engine. This is a first-person shooter game. This game also won great awards in art design. The picture is definitely not bad.
("BioShock" game test, the higher the number, the better. Blue represents the average frame rate, yellow represents the lowest frame rate)
In this game test, we also compared the AW 13 OLED with some of the more powerful gaming notebooks. The AW 13 played this game at 1080P resolution with no problem, but an average of 49 frames per second was tested in all tests. The result is only moderate.
"Mid-Earth: Shadow Demon" Even with the minimum special effects setting, the picture is very real. To test the limits of Alienware's high-end computer, we tested the game in different resolutions, up to 2560 x 1440 , just fit the resolution of its screen, we open all the special effects including FXAA.
("Middle-earth" game test, average frame rate at different resolutions)
This test result is quite interesting. Under 1080P, even with full effects, the AW 13 OLED is not stressful to play. The average is 50 frames. However, if you play with the native resolution of the screen, the experience is relatively poor, averaging 34 frames. The good news is that even with 1080P resolution, the game screen is very good, so we think the game screen is set to 1080P.
Playing "Tomb Raider: Rise" in 1080p is smooth, but it will be a bit difficult to get to the 1440P. As said before, the 1080P game screen looks great, so there is no need to set it to 1440P.
("Tomb Raider" game test, average frame rate at different resolutions)
Life and noiseWe used two battery life methods for testing, Battery Eater Pro battery testing and looping 1080P HD video. We turn on the Quiet Hours option and adjust the screen brightness to 115 lux (light units), which is approximately 45-60% screen brightness. Because the screen brightness has a great impact on the battery life, we try to adjust to a suitable brightness for battery life testing.
We used the Battery Eater Pro for some heavy testing and some HD video looping. The Battery Eater Pro will exhaust its processor, GPU, memory and hard disk processing power to consume power.
(Battery Eater Pro endurance test, value in minutes)
In the Battery Eater test, the AW 13 OLED performed better than other notebooks and had 2 hours and 45 minutes of battery life. However, if you want to use this computer to play games, make sure that you always plug in the power, especially when it's When the GeForce GTX 965M is in full force, it will consume more power.
(video loop test, value in minutes)
The 2W screen of the AW 13 OLED is definitely a big consumer of electricity, and we didn’t report much about how good it would be to perform on battery life, but in a video loop test, for a gaming laptop, nearly 5 hours of high-definition video The playing time is very good, and it is worth mentioning that in this test, the HD520 of the CPU is working and the GeForce GTX 965M is not running.
Noise on Alienware 13 OLED
This notebook has an NVIDIA GPU and a dual-core processor (clocked at 3.1GHz). You may think that this machine will be very noisy when it is at full capacity, and it is indeed the case when we are doing When running the test, the fan has gone crazy. Especially when playing games, the noise is loud enough to sing. At full load, the bottom of the AW 13 OLED will become very hot and the temperature at the outlet will be very high. However, the thermal dissipation of the AW 13 OLED is relatively timely. We prefer this.
The AW 13 OLED's performance is very strong, and its body size and weight are so small, it is a portable game. Although the GTX 965M is a bit tricky to use to run 1440P games, you can play the most special effects game at 1080P resolution. In fact, this is also a good choice. Alienware 13 OLED is very good to use experience, design is also more eye-catching, and this OLED screen can absolutely meet the needs of most of the users often need image processing. I believe that most users who like strong portable gaming notebooks will be attracted by Dell's Alienware 13 OLED notebook. Â
Highlights
The perfect 13.3-inch OLED screen
Strong performance
Beautiful design, unique keyboard lighting effects
Only 4.5 pounds
Good keyboard experience
Slot point
No surprise price will be high
Millennium unchanged plastic enclosure
No SD card slot
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