I drank my first Eggnog coffee of the year yesterday, which means Black Friday, NS really The holiday season is officially upon us. I’m sorry, I didn’t follow the rules. For many of us, myself included, that means stuffing our faces with delicious food like we’re practicing for Fat Bear Week. What’s your hobby? Mine is the lebkuchen heart with apricot filling, plus anything with macaroons.
The point I’m trying to achieve is that this really isn’t a fragile and glamorous time of year for me. Another fat and cuddly (but still sexy) season. On the other hand, this Alienware m15 R4 A gaming laptop that’s both slim and sexy, as well as $500 off Dell’s Black Friday flagship sale.
Besides being an upgraded successor to excellence, circa 2019 Alienware m15, this model is Alienware’s thinnest and most powerful 15.6-inch gaming laptop ever. What makes it particularly tasty (though not as tasty as a lebkuchen heart with apricot kernel) is the fact that it comes with a GeForce RTX 3080, the flagship GPU in Nvidia’s line of mobile gaming chips. At $2300, it’s the cheapest we’ve seen, and a great price for an RTX 3080-equipped laptop in general. With desktop GPUs increasingly scarce and like a gnawing cheese after I got used to it, it’s almost like freeing up the rest of the laptop – which I confirmed to be true later one visit to eBay was extremely traumatic.
One potential downside is that the CPU is a bit older, but the m15 R4 comes with a generous amount of NVMe SSD storage with the option to expand if you want. Like a good stretch pants. The 144Hz, 15.6IN display rounds out the package, conveniently allowing all that GPU annoyance to be delivered to your eyeballs. Comfortable!
For our UK readers and anyone who doesn’t want a tiny alien face on their hardware, we’ve rounded up more of the best. Black Friday laptop deals for you. Everything else you could want, except for a delicious mince pie, can be found on Black Friday Dealer!
