 The first OLED gaming display is here. OLEG! I mean, I've been waiting for something to bring CRT-like response time back to the PC since Canon crushed my dreams back in 2010 by officially discontinuing development of their SED technology. Well, OLED has that potential. But so far, the best OLED displays are LG TVs, which have notoriously terrible processing lag. So the pixels can be as fast as you please, but gaming still feels like telling your friend in the next room which buttons to press for you, which... Okay, sorry, I digress. Okay, so the display I'm talking about. OLED gaming display. It's connected to a laptop. The Alienware 13R3. Now, with a 13-inch OLED display. In case you hadn't picked up on that before. Let's take her for a spin. [♪ music playing, Let's take her for a spin! [♪ music playing, Corsair's ML fans feature magnetic levitation technology and custom engineered rotors to provide a high-performance, low-noise experience. Learn more at the link in the video description. The Alienware 13 strikes as fine a balance between tastefully aggressive looking and gaudy and tacky as any gaming PC with an alien theme possibly could, and rocks a pretty strong I.O. configuration with USB Type-C and Type-A super speed ports on the right, an additional Type-A and dedicated headphone and mic ports on the left, and gigabit killer! Ethernet, mini display port, HDMI 2.0, Thunderbolt 3, Alienware's proprietary external GPU dock connector, and power in at the back, flanked by some large rear heat sinks that vent hot air down, back, and up for optimal cooling. Immediately noticeable are both its size and weight, considering the Alienware 13's 13-inch screen size. So the numbers listed on Dell's side are meaningless, the depth is based on the edge, even though the center is a full centimeter more, I can't for the life of me figure out where they measured the 23.3 millimeter height, and the width is off by a whopping six centimeters. Oops. But anyway, when I measured it myself, it worked out to about two liters of internal volume. So for comparison, the Razer Blade 14 with quite similar specs comes in at less than three quarters of that while weighing half a kilogram less. So how can Dell justify it? Well, easy upgradability is one good way. Making our way to the bottom, these five normal Phillips head screws are all that stand between you and the M.2 slots that you can use to upgrade or add SSDs, and RAM slots that you can use to install up to 32 gigs of DDR4 RAM, just like that Inspiron value gaming machine that we checked out here. Unlike that one, however, the Alienware 13 is packing some serious heat under the plastic cover that protects all the stuff that you shouldn't be tooling around with. This tricked out config got a Core i7-6700HQ quad-core with hyper-threading, 16 gigs of RAM, a 512 gig NBME SSD, and a VR-capable GTX 1060 with 6 gigs of VRAM that ended up packing more of a punch than I expected. More on that later. First, let's flip this puppy over and talk about the important stuff that you're gonna see and touch every time you use the machine. The RGB lighting. [♪ music playing, no lyrics, just music playing. There are nine lighting zones, including, this is the first time I've seen this one, an RGB trackpad, which admittedly actually looks really cool. Too bad its functionality could be improved. It does track accurately and feels very responsive to the touch, but I found it a bit small, and I found the chin of the laptop, combined with the depth of the clicky buttons below, made them a little bit awkward to use. Fortunately, the keyboard is mostly good news. Typing experience-wise, it's not the best that I've used, but it's far from the worst. The layout is very good with full-size arrow keys, and the long travel distance and reassuring tactile feel were great for gaming. On top of that, for a small device, it feels surprisingly not cramped. Maybe because Dell ended up stashing the speakers on the side of the unit, which I was all geared up to complain about, until they totally kicked my ass. With solid output volume, which is necessary when using speakers on a gaming laptop, fans, and surprisingly lifelike 3D positional audio. They ended up being a highlight of this machine, along with Windows Hello presence detection, which by the way, is still freaking amazing. But not as amazing as the display. Boy is it beautiful. So my config has the optional 2560x1440 OLED touchscreen monitor that boasts perfect black levels, shockingly vibrant colors, and some other advantages that were like a breath of fresh air for a gamer who grew up on old school CRT monitors. Look at the difference in mouse movement to screen movement response time here. The Blade 14 at about 40 milliseconds at 60 hertz is far from the worst I've seen, but the Alienware 13 is right down around 25 milliseconds, a full screen refresh faster, which only accounts for faster processing time. The pixel response times contribute equally to the perceived clarity and responsiveness of the display, because they keep the image looking crisp even during fast camera pans. It is awesome. Which doesn't mean though that it's perfect. It suffers from Best Buy TV syndrome a little bit, in that color saturation is off the hook, but with a little bit of tuning of in-game gamma controls, I think you'll find that most of the shadow crushing effects can be countered for an unreal, if a little small, gaming experience. Let's talk performance and usability now. The Alienware 13 scores pretty well here. In spite of the beefed up battery, off-wall life is unexceptional at about two hours in change in PCMark's conventional work test and one hour of continuous Crisis 3 gaming, but it runs fanlessly under very light loads, stays much quieter than the Blade 14 under gaming loads, maintains reasonable surface temperatures on both top and bottom while gaming, and manages to do all of that while performing as well as the Blade 14. They both end up falling behind a desktop GTX 1060, probably due to power delivery limitations, but remember guys, that's to be expected, especially on one and a half to two liter machines. Which leads us then to the obvious conclusion. The Alienware 13 is the hands-down winner, right? Well, maybe not. Who made a better computer? Personally, I still prefer Razer's approach, but while I'm not ready to switch to the MacBook Pro full-time, I also don't really game that much anymore, which means that I'm willing to make some compromises there for reduced weight and a larger display. With that said, the Alienware 13 is a better pure gaming machine in almost every way. The webcam kind of sucks, but the display is better, the keyboard is better, I mean the list goes on. I.O., cooling, noise, I mean heck, even Alienware's external GPU enclosure is cheaper. If you want to upgrade your video card down the road. Just like the Blade, don't expect any of that to come cheap, because this is a serious toy for serious ballers. Speaking of serious toys, tunnel bears are adorable. 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