Over the last couple of years, laptops have been getting thinner and thinner, but often at the expense of sheer computational grunt. Look at the MacBook Pro, for all intents and purposes it is one of the thinnest computers around, only a little bit thicker than an iPad, but that comes at a cost, with slower processors, reduced storage options available for a higher price point than equivalent power machines. Granted, this is a MacBook which have always commanded a higher price point than a Windows machine, but the point still stands. At this point, the thinnest gaming laptop available has been Razer's Blade series but the daddy of high performance gaming is not going to be outdone. Alienware's new model is slightly thicker than the Blade, but the extra 0.3" of thickness houses some pretty beefy specifications. At the top level the 13 features 2560 x 1440 touch screen, NVidia GeForce 860M GTX GPU, SSDs, the latest wireless technology and a whole host of other premium features that you would normally find in the most expensive desktop machines. That Alienware have managed to stuff so much into such a small footprint is nothing short of a miracle. Gaming on the go is big business these days, especially with the recent resurgence in popularity of LAN arenas, Alienware are keen to be at the top of the game, no matter where it is played.
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