The rumor mill has proved to be correct as Dell’s Alienware m15 switches away from Intel.
Dell has announced a new Alienware m15 gaming laptop powered by AMD Ryzen 5000, alongside the Dell G15 Ryzen Edition notebook, plus some tasty gaming monitors to boot. The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 is the big news, being the first Alienware portable to use an AMD processor since 2007 (when the Aurora mALX came out). It was rumored that Dell would switch away from Intel with the new m15, and this has proven to be the case. Depending on the exact configuration you go for, the laptop can pack either the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX or Ryzen 7 5800H, and one of Nvidia’s Ampere laptop GPUs, either the RTX 3060 or RTX 3070. This gaming laptop also comes with 8GB to 32GB of 3200MHz DDR4 system RAM, and in another first for the 15-inch notebook, the owner will be able to upgrade this memory (the m15 has a pair of SO-DIMM slots to work with). That’s a potentially useful extra bit of future-proofing. Storage is provided in the form of up to a 2TB PCIe M.2 SSD, or you can run with dual-drive options (with a pair of those making 4TB of total storage capacity). While we’re talking about firsts, the Ryzen Edition R5 is also an Alienware pioneer in being equipped with a new ‘high endurance’ paint which is more stain-resistant, and offers a smooth finish for a premium feel.
