Extreme unboxing: tearing down the Alienware 18
We strip down one of Alienware's top-of-the-line gaming laptops to see what makes this dual-GPU monster tick.
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Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office. His passions include bourbon, video games and boring strangers with photos of his cat.
Watch this: Alienware 18 teardown
At just under 5.5kg, the Alienware 18 is a big, powerful desktop replacement for gamers.
With a lot of help from Raymond Watkins, technical marketing supervisor at Alienware, and product marketing coordinator Eduardo Goyanes, we took apart the Alienware 18 to look at what's packed into its magnesium alloy frame.
Spec highlights to watch out for include:
Fourth-gen Intel Core i7-4700MQ processor
Dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M GPUs
18.4-inch WLED full-HD display
16GB of DDR3L RAM
Two 750GB hard drives, plus 80GB mSATA SSD.
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