Alienware 15 Gaming Laptop Review: GeForce Infused, Bang For Your Buck

Name: Alienware 15 Gaming Laptop: GeForce Infused, Bang For Your Buck
Brand: Alienware

by Joshua Gulick — Thursday, June 04, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT

Battery life may not be the deal-breaker for a gaming notebook that it is for say, a business notebook, but it’s worth keeping in mind as you shop. That’s particularly true if you plan to use the notebook for other situations, like air travel.

Battery Life

Heavy and Light Loads

We use Battery Eater Pro give you an idea of how a laptop will fare when you are running intensive programs for long periods of time. In our HotHardware test, we mimic casual web surfing by refreshing a Web page regularly until the laptop’s battery wears down. Obviously, your mileage will vary, but these tests are useful for comparison.

As I mentioned earlier, the Alienware Graphics Amplifier is loud. The laptop, however, is quite quiet. It makes a little noise under load, but the sound isn’t distracting. I barely noticed it.

Tags: Nvidia, Intel, Dell, Alienware, Haswell, killer networks

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.