Wizard #49
10 de febrero de 2018
ONE GLARING ISSUE: But Pro Video/Photo users might find great for remote production.
UPDATE: First the annoyance. The key cap for F10 keeps coming off. Often times when the cover is opened after the laptop has been in the Alienware sleeve and that is inside a double-padded Courier-style bag, the key will have popped up and need to be reset. I've taken Macro photos of both the key cap back and the keyboard switch where it seats and can see no damage or missing bits. But it is REALLY annoying and spoils the experience of having an otherwise excellent piece of luggable technology. After searching I see key caps on Alienware's products are a problem are a problem for others, but I imagine some of that is because it can be a great gaming machine. I don't know if buying a replacement key-cap will solve the issue. I actually comes loose while the cover is down, not just from pressing it. Indeed the keyboard gets little use as my setup is such that I use a separate Logitech USB keyboard and mouse. But I need to use F9 and F10 on the laptop keyboard to adjust brightness.Original Review: Original rating still holds. I got this machine not for gaming but for remote on-location HD video production, editing, and rendering. Primary requirements were GPU and CPU performance and software compatibility. So far this machine has performed very well. I was concerned about and on the lookout for any issues with the display, critical in my work, that appeared in at least one review. I haven't yet seen any dead pixels. I needed a machine with an IPS display so that the screen could be viewed by more than one person, thus from oblique angles, with minimal darkening or color shift of the image. The display in the machine I received is excellent for my needs.There was a mention in one of the reviews about unsatisfactory color on the display. After considerable testing that is most certainly NOT THE CASE with the display in my machine. The display is excellent and color accurate. Read on. . . Consistency and accuracy of color, brightness, tonality, and nuance are critical in my professional work. I use a professional colorimeter-based display calibration system (DataColor's SPYDER product [ASIN:B00UBSL3L6 Datacolor Spyder5ELITE - Designed for Professional Photographers (S5EL100)] to calibrate all my displays on all my systems to the same viewing standard regardless of the hardware. This is a hardware and software solution to calibrate monitors on different systems to a fixed setting (determined by user requirements) so that the images displayed are as identical as possible. The precision colorimeter sensor measures the color output and brightness of the display across the full spectrum of displayable colors. The display in my Alienware laptop matches the displays on my large workstation monitors in a side-by-side comparison.I have run FurMark benchmarks on the machine, watching the CPU/GPU temp rise and then hearing the fans kick in. For a portable production system on a budget I think this will do the job. I'll update the review again if there are issues or Alienware/Dell steps up to this problem.Ver másVer menos
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