Another new Alien species has arrived. The Alienware 13 laptop is safely contained inside its cardboard box. Come on, take a look.
Pop open the box and you see the first real glimpse of the Alienware 13 gaming laptop. It doesn’t feel like a metal screen lid, sounds like plastic. The box holds the beast in place very well, no problem whatsoever.
Remove the Alien, and two information booklets are revealed. The cardboard box next to the spine has the laptop’s battery adapter.
This is how the Alienware 13 laptop look like out of its box while it’s turned off. Cold and menacing or warm and inviting?
When you prop open its screen lid, the Alienware 13 gaming laptop reveals its glossy screen lid, keyboard deck, palmrest and touchpad. Nothing too alien here, as far as laptops are concerned.
Another angular shot of the Alienware 13. Can you spot any alien tentacles?
The Alienware 13 is a tiny (but not slim) gaming laptop. It doesn’t feel too heavy either, but it’s definitely no ultrabook, that’s for sure. However, compared to a 14 or 15-inch laptop, it is definitely more easier to carry around.
On the left edge of the Alienware 13, you have the power adapter socket, kensington lock slot, USB 3.0 port, microphone and headphone jacks are visible. You can also see a heat vent grille towards the right.
On the right edge of the Alienware 13 gaming laptop you can clearly make out two more USB 3.0 ports and gigabit ethernet, and exhaust vent.
More heat vents are visible on the rear spine of the Alienware 13. There’s also an HDMI port, mini DisplayPort, and a proprietary PCIe port which lets you hook up an Alienware Graphics Amplifier (with an external graphics card) to boost the graphics performance of the games you’d play on your Alienware notebook.
The silver gray look of the Alienware 13 gaming laptop’s screen lid is premium on touch. The Alien logo is great to look at, too.
Check out the Alien logo again from a little closer. Looks menacing no?
That’s the bottom panel of the Alienware 13 gaming laptop. Lots of fans for exhaust and compartmentalized internal hardware access.
We dig the Alienware 13’s angular side accents and robust hinge design. Adds to the Alien’s overall build quality.
The Alienware 13 gaming laptop comes with Klipsch speakers. We haven’t fired it up yet, but Klipsch audio has always been decent in the past. Fingers crossed.
The rubber stoppers on the Alienware 13 are a good addition. It gives the laptop a good grip on most surfaces (we tried wood, glass, metal so far) and ensures the laptop doesn’t move while you’re in the heat of gaming.
Here’s a top view of the Alienware 13’s keyboard deck (touchpad and palmrest, included too).
The keys are tightly packed on the Alienware 13 and good to type on (at least for the brief time we spent on it) -- no misfiring or flex so far.
There’s another Alien logo close to the spine of the Alienware 13 laptop. Looks quite neat.
The single-slab touchpad on the Alienware 13 isn’t great for gaming enthusiasts -- who games with a touchpad anyway? Its surface feels nice, though, for regular non-gaming laptop use.
The Alienware 13 comes with Intel Core i5 4210U processor, running at 1.7 GHz (can go up to 2.4 GHz), 16 GB RAM, 64-bit Windows 8.1 OS with 10-point multitouch support, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M graphics, and 1TB storage. Its screen resolution is a cool 2560x1440 pixels.
An HD 720p webcam for video chats or gaming hangouts is also included on the Alienware 13’s screen bezel.
Time to start this baby up. That’s the Alienware 13’s signature LED lights. They’re just getting warmed up. Hang on… time for total darkness.
A blue radiance emanates from the Alienware 13’s keyboard deck and its an awesome sight, seducing you to start a game and put on a pair of headphones. It’s quite something, that sight. You need to see it to believe it. It’s something else.
The keyboard deck is also glowing thanks to a backlit keyboard feature… but you can’t see it very well now because of the ambient light surrounding the Alienware 13. Time to switch off the lights again.
Lo and behold! More LED backlight awesomeness on the Alienware 13.
Even the screen lid is full of LED accents and the Alien logo is blazing in brilliance.
Behold the aura of light emanating from the Alienware 13. Imagine gaming on this beast in total darkness? Are you in or are you out?
Too much blue light? You can change and customize it all thanks to the Alienware Command Center. Hit the next slide.
Every inch of glowing LED lights on the Alienware 13 is customizable according to the color available in the color wheel. You can even choose LED light behaviour, based on wave, pulse and some other setting which we haven’t explored fully yet. Oh for crying out loud, this is just the unboxing. Is it worth its Rs 99,990 price tag? We’ll disclose more in the detailed review. Stay tuned. Alien signing off.