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Alienware 13 laptop aims for no-compromise PC gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Dell’s Alienware gaming division is launching its Alienware 13 laptop for no-compromise laptop gaming.

The machine has a 13.3-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) screen with Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M graphics. It also has 16 gigabytes of DDR3 main memory, supports up to two solid-state drives (SSDs), and it includes Killer 802.11ac wireless networking. Alienware has outfitted it with the Alienware Command Center 4.0/AlienFX, which you can use to set the performance or battery life policies. It has audio powered by Klipsch, and an Alienware TACTX keyboard. It runs Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro, or Windows 7 Pro.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.