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Alienware’s m17 R4 laptop (seen here) is the company’s first notebook to feature a 360Hz display option.
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While Alienware hasn’t given its gaming laptops a full overhaul for 2021, like other gaming laptop makers the company is kicking off the year by refreshing its 15 and 17-inch notebooks with new Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs. The larger m17 R4 is also getting a huge display upgrade that could make it the laptop for gamers.
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Both the 15-inch m15 R4 and 17-inch m17 R4 start at $2,150 and have a similar range of components and ports, but if you don’t mind trading out some portability for even better performance, Alienware’s big 17-inch system is probably the better choice for more demanding games. That’s because in addition to support for new Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs (which the m15 R4 is also getting), the m17 R4 is Alienware’s first laptop to get a 360 Hz 17.3-inch 1920 x 1080 screen.