The Biggest and Most Powerful Alienware Gaming Laptop Is on Sale for Black Friday – IGN

Alienware m18 R2 18″ 1920×1200 Intel Core i9-14900HX RTX 4090 Gaming Laptop with 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD

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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.

Depending on which configuration you choose, your laptop will be equipped with a 18″ 2560×1600 QHD+ or 1920×1200 FHD+ display, Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU, GeForce RTX 4070 or 4090 (mobile) GPU, 32GB-64GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a 2TB-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 4070 mobile GPU has a maximum TGP wattage of 140W (115W + 25W dynamic boost). Performance-wise, the RTX 4070 is on par with the RTX 3080 but with newer features like DLSS 3.0. This is a very capable GPU that should be able to run any game at playable framerates just fine on the QHD+ display.

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 2560×1600 or 1920×1200 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.

More Alienware Black Friday Laptop Deals

The Alienware Early Black Friday Sale has gone live and Alienware has once again come out strong with some excellent deals on gaming laptops. Check out all of the deals below, and we’ll keep adding to the list as we find more.

When Is Black Friday 2024?

The actual date of Black Friday in 2024 falls on November 29 this year, but the deals season will begin a lot sooner than that. Leading up to the big event, retailers will begin to open deals online. This usually starts in the last week of October, just before Halloween. Each week leading up to the event will slowly roll out more deals, which ultimately leads to massive discounts on Black Friday. Retailers will not reveal their biggest Black Friday deals until the big day, but most general deals will be available well in advance.

Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.