As part of its Black Friday in July Event, Dell is offering the Alienware x15 R2 gaming laptop equipped with an RTX 3070 Ti mobile graphics card for only $1699.99. The Alienware X-series gaming laptops are newer, thinner, and lighter redesigns of the traditional M-series laptops. These are the thinnest Alienware laptops ever and they compete in build quality, dimensions, and performance to other high-end ultra-thin laptops.
Alienware x15 R2 RTX 3070 Ti Gaming Laptop for $1699
This Alienware x15 R2 laptop features a 15" 2560x1440 QHD display, 12th gen Intel Core i9-12900H CPU, RTX 3070 Ti GPU with 140W TGP, 16GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
The Intel Core i9-12900H CPU has a boost clook speed of up to 5GHz with 14 cores, 20 threads, and a 24MB cache. It's a very powerful CPU that won't bottleneck your gaming. Although there are newer RTX 40 series cards out, the RTX 3070 Ti is still a fantastic GPU. Compared to the latest generation RTX 40 series cards, it sits right in between the RTX 4060 and RTX 4070. You'll need this kind of power to run games well on the display's beefed up QHD resolution.
One important thing to note is that unlike the first gen X-series gaming laptops, the x15 and x17 R2 models have GPUs that boast the same TGP rating as their M-series counterparts. For example, the x15 has the same RTX 3070 TI GPU with 140W TGP that you'd find in an m15. Theoretically, that means you shouldn't see any performance difference between an equivalently equipped x15 and m15. That's super impressive considering the x15's 0.62" thickness. The X-series laptops are justifiably more expensive than their M-series counterparts, but this deal negates that one disadvantage.