Cutting-edge design
The Alienware 18 is a monster gaming powerhouse. Every detail is engineered to give you the most intense experience possible. A durable and sophisticated design is made for performance with an outer anodized-aluminum shell surface, reinforced by a magnesium alloy frame to protect the LCD.
Processing Power Like Never Before
Now all 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processors come factory-overclocked so you can get even more speed, power and performance out of your Alienware 18. And with Intel’s Turbo Boost 2.0 technology dynamically controlling power and performance, you’ll be able to cram even more action out of the Alienware 18’s 8-cell battery on a single charge.
Maximum performance with dual graphics
Get in the game like never before with dual graphics from NVIDIA that delivers increased performance, better image rendering and higher frame rates.
Get superior game performance and immersive gameplay with the optional Dual AMD Radeon™ R9 M290X GPU with 8GB of combined GDDR5 memory. Harness the power of two GPUs with AMD CrossFire™ technology and unleash additional performance to boost detail levels and effects in your games as well as maintain high frame rates during the most intense gaming sessions. Unlock revolutionary performance and outstanding image quality with AMD’s GCN architecture and Mantle API technology.
Pump up your audio experience
Powered by Klipsch® Speakers: Your Alienware 18 is a precision-tuned, premium stereo system designed to deliver the most lifelike audio experience you have ever heard from a laptop. Dynamic drivers provide a punchy, rich, full range of sound, to give you the best gaming experience possible.
Dolby Home Theater v4: Whether you’re listening through headphones, your laptop speakers or your home theater setup, Dolby Home Theater v4 delivers the captivating listening experience that your games and media demand. Surround Decoder creates a virtual surround sound experience and Volume Maximizer lets you blast your audio at peak volume without noise or clipping. And Dolby Home Theater comes with an easy-to-use interface, so you can maintain total control over your audio settings at all times.
Connect and conquer
A built-in Killer Gigabit Ethernet NIC identifies and prioritizes your network traffic so that latency-sensitive streams that require maximum speed, like games or video chat, are prioritized over less-important traffic. See which applications are hogging your bandwidth and limit them using Visual Bandwidth Control™ so they don’t interfere with your games.
Massive Storage
Make your Alienware system a vault of games, movies and music with the Tri-Play capability — that’s three slots available for any 7 mm drive. You get the ability to write massive amounts of data in your portable gaming machine.
Plug in with plenty of ports
Plenty of ports: Whether you want to plug into an external display, speaker or transfer movies and music, we got you covered with all the ports you need. Alienware 18 comes with an RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet IPv6, three SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and one USB 3.0 port with PowerShare technology (allows you to charge USB devices when the computer is turned off or in standby mode), a mini display port, HDMI 1.4 output / 1.3 input, 7-in-1 media card reader and more.
Ultimate control. All from one place.
Change how you experience the game. The redesigned Alienware Command Center 3.0 lets you choose lighting and special effects, accelerate your gaming performance, monitor in-game results, and more — all in one hub.
Key Features:
- Get reliable performance from the Intel Core i7-4710MQ 2.5GHz quad-core processor
- Last longer, use less power, and warm up quicker with the unique 18.4" Full-HD LED-backlit display
- 16GB DDR3 memory - For multitasking power; supports up to 32GB
- 1TB SATA hard drives have plenty of space to store your digital albums, music library and rich media files
- 80GB Solid State Drive for an amazingly smooth and fast computing experience
- USB 3.0 has transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s, which is 10 times faster than USB 2.0
- Enhanced viewing with the dual discrete AMD Radeon R9-M290X graphics with 4GB GDDR5 dedicated graphics memory per card (8GB combined graphics memory)
- SuperMulti DVD±RW drive - watch movies on your computer; read and write CDs and DVDs in multiple formats
- Connect to a broadband modem or router with wired Ethernet, or wirelessly connect to a Wi-Fi signal or hotspot with the built-in 802.11ac wireless connection
- Easily link with other Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as a mobile phone or MP3s players
- Windows® 8 makes the things you do every day easier
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Warranty: 1 Year Dell
