Gamers, don’t miss out on this excellent deal from Dell during its back-to-school sale which drops the price of the Alienware m18 R2 by several hundred dollars. The Alienware m18 R2 is a beast of a laptop with a large 18-inch display, and while not the lightest laptop for carrying around, it’s still a laptop and a powerful one at that. It would normally cost you $4,000 for this configuration but the back-to-school sale drops it down to $3,400.
It’s also worth noting that this is one of the more powerful configurations, with a top-tier CPU and GPU, and plenty of RAM and storage. You can change some of those things to lower the price further as well. For this particular model, it comes with an Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, a 4TB SSD, and 64GB of RAM.
For the display, you get an 18-inch QHD display with a 165Hz refresh rate. So games will look very good. If you want a higher refresh rate, you can opt for the FHD+ display that has a 480Hz refresh rate and it bumps the price by $50.
It weighs about 9 lbs. so it’s definitely on the heavier side, which is something to consider if you’re going to be carrying around a lot of books from class to class. But a good backpack with straps that go across your chest and waist can help distribute some of that weight so it doesn’t feel as heavy. The more important thing is that this is a powerhouse of a gaming laptop. So if you want something for gaming that can handle all of your school tasks, this is it. It’s a no-compromise laptop that will power you through basically anything.