Kaby Lake and GTX 1050 now on Dell. Alienware and Inspiron.

[Guest]

http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/03/dell-launches-4-inspiron-and-alienware-gaming-laptops-with-intel-kaby-lake-processors/

 

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/dell-teams-kaby-lake-with-gtx-1050-as-it-refreshes-gaming-laptop-line-up

Image: Top is Alienware, bottom is Inspiron

 

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The refreshed gaming-centric portables, which are available to buy this week, all feature the 7th generation Intel Kaby Lake processors.

 

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First up is the affordable Dell Inspiron 15 7000, which rocks the new Core i5/i7 processors and is among the first laptops to deploy Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050/1050 Ti GPUs

 

The Inspiron 15 7000 is less than an inch thick. It starts $799. It has an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics chip and a quad-core 7th Generation Intel Core i5 processor (previously code-named Kaby Lake). The machine is for players who want to experience something more than a console, but are price sensitive. It has 4GB of GDDR5 main memory, and a hard drive (ranging from 512GB to 1TB). It has a 4K UHD display. The 15-inch and 17-inch versions use Nvidia G-Sync display technology.

 

 

 

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Dell said the Alienware 13 is the first 13.3-inch laptop that is ready for virtual reality. It has quad-core H-class 7th Generation Intel Core processors.

 

It uses Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 graphics chip and an option for the GTX 1050. It will sell for $1,000 in the U.S. The 15-inch sells for $1,200 and the 17-inch sells for $1,349.

 

 

Very excited about this. We now can truly have VR OTG. Experience is obviously not same as a desktop but still looks amazing. 

[potoooooooo]

Good lord that inspiron is ugly

 

What the hell happened?

[captain cactus]

Still waiting for that RX470 to go in laptops like Dell said would go in their Alienware computers.

[8-Bit Ninja]

4 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Good lord that inspiron is ugly

 

What the hell happened?

looks like they went overboard with the "gaming" style 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, 8-Bit Ninja said:

looks like they went overboard with the "gaming" style 

 

9 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

Good lord that inspiron is ugly

 

What the hell happened?

Let's hope parts has RGB. Or else this just gets worse

[79 Potatoes]

Nice specs but the battery better be good to justify a bit that ugly chassis...

[xboxonthego3]

18 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Very excited about this. We now can truly have VR OTG. Experience is obviously not same as a desktop but still looks amazing. 

Ummm... we already had VR on the go for a little while now. I own the Alienware 15R3 with a 1060. Only difference being Skylake vs Kabylake with these new versions. But it will be interesting to see if those prices are accurate because they are about $100 to $200 below the standard prices for the Alienware laptops with Skylake currently.

 

I'm more excited to see how the GTX 1050 handles than Skylake because of the prior article listed in the Tech News about no IPC gains with Kabylake.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, xboxonthego3 said:

Ummm... we already had VR on the go for a little while now. I own the Alienware 15R3 with a 1060. Only difference being Skylake vs Kabylake with these new versions. But it will be interesting to see if those prices are accurate because they are about $100 to $200 below the standard prices for the Alienware laptops with Skylake currently.

 

I'm more excited to see how the GTX 1050 handles than Skylake because of the prior article listed in the Tech News about no IPC gains with Kabylake.

13 inches 

[Energycore]

Wait, I just realized we don't have RGB laptops. Someone tell the laptop makers: this has to change! We need RGB on everything.

[xboxonthego3]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

13 inches 

Oh the 13 in model. Alright I guess I can give you that. But that's also been out for a month maybe two with a Skylake processor. Only thing new with Alienware is the Kabylake processors and the GTX 1050 option on the 13 inch unless I overlooked something.

 

The Inspirons are new though. But I could of sworn that dell was using that chassis but with Skylake processors in a foreign country. Possibly giving the chassis a test run? Cannot find the post at the moment.

[Adreyu]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Wait, I just realized we don't have RGB laptops. Someone tell the laptop makers: this has to change! We need RGB on everything.

what? we totally have rgb laptops lol.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Adreyu said:

what? we totally have rgb laptops lol.

Dammit. Must have missed it.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Dammit. Must have missed it.

Some rgb alienware trackpad from some alienware or gigabyte or something

[Adreyu]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Dammit. Must have missed it.

yeah, like razer has chroma in pretty much all of their laptops now. I'm enjoying the age of rgb lighting laptops so far.

[Zodiark1593]

Gaming laptops for under a grand. Used to be you could hardly find even low end dGPUs for under a thousand. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Gaming laptops for under a grand. Used to be you could hardly find even low end dGPUs for under a thousand. 

There were some with 960m actually 

[potoooooooo]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

There were some with 960m actually 

Think back further.

 

Back when Kepler was the new thing, a laptop with a 750m was well over a thousand dollars.

[ZestyJalapeno]

Yes! Progress! 1050 on a laptop for $700 is witchcraft.

[suicidalfranco]

damn. If only there were drivers for 10 series chip on OSX, i'd hackintosh the easiest one to replace drives and ram out of the two and keep it as my dayly driver if it's better than my mbp performance wise

[Castdeath97]

17 hours ago, 79 Potatoes said:

Nice specs but the battery better be good to justify a bit that ugly chassis...

The 1050 has a 75W TDP like the 960m, so I'd be surprised if they did.

[Magnetorheological]

And here I was hoping that new Inspiron design would remain an Asian market refresh as previously reported. Good lord it's ugly. 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Magnetorheological said:

And here I was hoping that new Inspiron design would remain an Asian market refresh as previously reported. Good lord it's ugly. 

cheap?

[Guest Kloaked]

On 1/3/2017 at 4:39 PM, potoooooooo said:

Good lord that inspiron is ugly

 

What the hell happened?

 

On 1/3/2017 at 4:43 PM, 8-Bit Ninja said:

looks like they went overboard with the "gaming" style 

Are you guys being serious? They used to look way more "gamer" before they had Alienware. Those laptops are by far very moderate in terms of flashiness.

[Guest Kloaked]

On 1/3/2017 at 5:05 PM, Energycore said:

Wait, I just realized we don't have RGB laptops. Someone tell the laptop makers: this has to change! We need RGB on everything.

There's RGB lighting on those Alienware laptops. They've had it for the longest time, even before the RGB craze.