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Alienware m18 Review: A Massive 18-Inch Gaming Laptop (With Nvidia RTX 4090)

With a giant screen and Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU, this is about as powerful as gaming laptops get. Read the CNET article here: Alienware m18 Review: A Big and Bold Gaming Beast 0:00 Intro 0:35 The specs of the Alienware m18 1:51 Alienware m18 vs Razer Blade 18 3:21 The 18 inch screen 4:15 Performance…

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With a giant screen and Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU, this is about as powerful as gaming laptops get.

Read the CNET article here:
Alienware m18 Review: A Big and Bold Gaming Beast

0:00 Intro
0:35 The specs of the Alienware m18
1:51 Alienware m18 vs Razer Blade 18
3:21 The 18 inch screen
4:15 Performance
5:52 Alienware command center
6:49 Cooling system
8:01 Conclusions

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58 Comments

  1. Ernesto Miños

    April 4, 2023 at 7:05 am

    Buen día macacos locos 😋

  2. channelclosingastrollshave followedmeherefromwork

    April 4, 2023 at 7:15 am

    32g ram wthhhh… I had a Toshiba 32gig ram 20 years ago 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • DIGITALDOM

      April 4, 2023 at 7:39 am

      No you didn’t.

    • Vector Pacer

      April 4, 2023 at 8:25 am

      Most intellectual indian

    • channelclosingastrollshave followedmeherefromwork

      April 4, 2023 at 8:29 am

      @DIGITALDOM OK it was 16 and I moved the partition to use 16g of virtual ram also.

    • Abdul Manan

      April 4, 2023 at 11:14 am

      Yeah ddr2

  3. stevey3100

    April 4, 2023 at 7:19 am

    Laptop sounds amazing looks cool. But the fact they offer a 32gb in 2023 no thanks and they shouldn’t have that in 2023 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • CptAloevera

      April 4, 2023 at 7:27 am

      Why?

    • DIGITALDOM

      April 4, 2023 at 7:40 am

      I’m so confused. Is 32GB bad?

    • CptAloevera

      April 4, 2023 at 7:43 am

      @DIGITALDOM nö

    • Tom N

      April 4, 2023 at 3:05 pm

      My dell , 5 years old have 64gb ram….

  4. Y

    April 4, 2023 at 7:27 am

    Terrible review due to very limited technical testing and such

    • Dead OG

      April 4, 2023 at 8:15 am

      It’s typical of cnet 😒

    • Venka Dx

      April 4, 2023 at 9:42 am

      The way he holds wasd keys and the mouse … uff feels like a business laptop review

  5. bellyboy

    April 4, 2023 at 8:02 am

    RIP off, $3500 for a 4090 gpu that has been proven to be lacking and considerably so, against its desktop brother….these types of gaming laptops…i dont know who they are for, why buy a laptop gpu, that is very expensive, but quite far behind in terms of specs of its desktop equal…its pointless. Get a steam deck, i use xcloud streaming my game pass, you got everything you need and save 3k cash.

    • ToniSkit

      April 4, 2023 at 8:22 am

      Because not everyone stays at home … people travel and are willing to make the compromise … or maybe they can afford both …

      Or maybe they use it for work that requires a higher performance machine

    • mabizu

      April 4, 2023 at 8:56 am

      I hate game streaming, feels very unresponsive. It may be fine for an RPG or so, but not from Doom, Competitive Gaming etc. Additionally, I find that a ATX or Large ITX tower Fall out of fashion. There is nothing sleek anymore with this monster 4090 RTX cards. Honestly I would love my MacBook Pro to be able to play more games, since Steam Deck is nice, but no Age of Empires or Blizzard Games, looking at you Diablo 4. So for me Gaming Laptop is the only option to have something which looks sleek, can be moved away while not in use and I can bring whereever on my business trips.

    • Tom N

      April 4, 2023 at 3:04 pm

      The 4090 is a 3080… Rip off on a full scale….

    • mabizu

      April 4, 2023 at 3:46 pm

      @Tom N this was always the case, before they just had an M to make it more clear. Rip Off, hmm, it is the best card you can get on a laptop in the moment, so it make sense to name it so people don’t search for a higher tier. Same they do with cars, let’s say Mercedes, there top line always is called AMG, or BMW with the M. Even if the different models are completely something different.

    • Ahsoka

      April 5, 2023 at 7:47 pm

      Yeah the prcing this year is insane. 4000 dollars for some laptops. Which is just insane. I would never pay more than 3000 dollars for a gaming laptop.

  6. Beau Croom

    April 4, 2023 at 8:34 am

    Somebody at cnet PLEASE tell me when they FINALLY make a laptop with a 17” OLED display (the asus zenbook doesn’t count)

  7. RG

    April 4, 2023 at 8:34 am

    i wish see more gaming tests

  8. mabizu

    April 4, 2023 at 8:58 am

    Wish the Razor Blade 18 would hit a bit a lower price point. 1500.- difference at the moment for very similar specs.

  9. Sir John

    April 4, 2023 at 9:04 am

    Just Buy Macbook Air M2 for portability and Buy a Win Desktop or Xbox/PS for Gaming.
    Gaming Laptops are garbage.

    • Michael Voronenko

      April 4, 2023 at 11:46 am

      I know right I wish I knew this earlier

    • Dang Nguyen

      April 4, 2023 at 11:56 am

      nah your comment is garbage

    • Jersey Representing

      April 4, 2023 at 5:24 pm

      Laptop gets stolen and overheat

    • Ali Khalaf

      April 5, 2023 at 9:12 pm

      Yooooooooo😂 dude I’ve been battling the urge to buy a gaming laptop for gaming and school. But these laptops aren’t looking promising. Might just go with your plan

  10. Ram Kumar

    April 4, 2023 at 12:24 pm

    Terrible BG Music

  11. Jeremy Tanudtanud

    April 4, 2023 at 12:39 pm

    I would just get the msi gt 77 titan with the 4k 144 hz mini led display with hdr 1000 with 1,000 nits since I need 1,000 nits since I crank the brightness at 100% 24/7 with static images with no risk of burn ins. There are not much gaming monitors that have hdr 1000 with 1, 000 nits with 4k mini led display, the gaming monitor I would get would be the samsung odyssey g8 neo 32 inch curve 4k 240 hz mini led display, i love 4k curve displays, once I gotten into 4k curve displays ever since 2014, I can’t go back to a flat display, the only exception would be a flat display like a phone or laptop, however the display has to be 4k since I’m already used to 4k, even my primary phone the sony xperia 1 iv has a 4k 120 hz oled display with 21:9 aspect ratio with 10 bit bt.2020 with 1,000 nits. I have the 2022 razer blade 15 with 4k 144 hz display but the screen is not that bright and it’s brightness is comparable to my samsung chromebook with the 4k super amoled display since they are not that bright since there brightness are meh mediocre. I just wish my sony phone has a hifi dac like the lg v series of phones but at least it has a headphone jack and a micro sd card slot.

    • VentoDiLevante

      April 5, 2023 at 8:32 pm

      MSI nice screen, but design… (no thanks), if compare with Alienware and Razer Blade better chose design for this money, then just mini led and 1000nits

  12. Jeff Y

    April 4, 2023 at 3:30 pm

    Too much of a mainstream review for me. I need the fps graphs and comparison charts! But still it was nice to hear about it!

  13. Elegant Pooshay

    April 4, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Did chat gpt write the review?

  14. Plant Power

    April 4, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    3 min into review and hasn’t said anything interesting….

  15. Plant Power

    April 4, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    oh man there are so many good smart technical youtube channels, yet these idiots have 3.6m subscribers…it seems the normal brain can only understand simple language…

  16. Mark Sear

    April 4, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    Really bad! Lots of inaccuracies, mixing up X and M series. Do your research, please.

  17. Nelson Stack

    April 4, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    About as awesome as this decades gunna get.

    • Mono

      April 5, 2023 at 6:41 am

      Not even close. Look at the scar 16

    • Nelson Stack

      April 5, 2023 at 6:51 am

      @Mono ive seen a few 10k ones but im mainly an alienware fanboy even tho i dont even think they let you access the bios when you buy one of these. its like a submenu or something you cant change and default stock settings lol.

    • Ahsoka

      April 5, 2023 at 7:44 pm

      @Mono Problem with the scars though is the Coil whine

    • JianHui Chua

      April 6, 2023 at 1:39 am

      @Mono Multiple cases reported on scar 16 that miniled bleed like crazy, and inbalance color distribution in different zones.

    • Mono

      April 6, 2023 at 5:29 am

      @JianHui Chua at low brightness like below 100 nits

    • Mono

      April 6, 2023 at 5:30 am

      @Ahsoka if your scar is sounding like coil whine u should just report it and get a replacement

  18. Shubham Rizal

    April 4, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    whats the time spy score on this laptop??

  19. Bill Bodega

    April 4, 2023 at 11:37 pm

    Thumbs down for Harry Potter. 😊

  20. 💰 Earn $635 Daily

    April 5, 2023 at 12:39 am

    “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” -Oscar Wilde

  21. Jordan

    April 5, 2023 at 12:58 am

    Its a Dell😥😥😥

  22. Best of

    April 5, 2023 at 12:59 am

    Alienware started sucking👎 right after Dell bought it!

  23. L Barla

    April 5, 2023 at 5:38 am

    😮

  24. Henusha Nimidul

    April 5, 2023 at 6:20 am

    What is price

  25. Mono

    April 5, 2023 at 6:40 am

    No cinebench or timespy?

  26. Kwabena Sarpong

    April 5, 2023 at 9:56 pm

    Wow. The beast of laptops.

  27. Chris Daniel

    April 5, 2023 at 10:26 pm

    I actually saw a gaming test with this laptop I saw a full 3-hour review on YouTube and it’s not that impressive unfortunately, the software was terrible the screen is meh. It doesn’t beat the MSI 77 if that’s what you wanted to know

  28. VINAYAK K

    April 5, 2023 at 11:30 pm

    ASMR 3:18 😂

  29. 8Leggedfreak

    April 5, 2023 at 11:49 pm

    Owning a M18X for over 10 years. This is worth it

  30. Tim D

    April 6, 2023 at 4:02 am

    Not sure why nobody is covering the 300nit screen brightness. That’s an instant fail when you have a screen that big rocking a 4090. Not to mention if you’re buying it for that 4090 and redic graphics, and NOT for the 480Hz, 300nits (tested at 280) you’re missing out.

  31. T.J. Entertainment

    April 6, 2023 at 8:58 am

    This review shows how the editor is out of touch with gamers, video games, tech and pricing. CNET, please hire someone more relatable…

  32. Brent Cooper

    April 6, 2023 at 9:01 am

    Nice high level review to keep me up on the trends. Not a deep dive into the weeds, but enough so I can know what’s going on in Windows land while I’m over here on my MacBook.

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