Customers love the m16 R2 gaming laptop for its outstanding performance and excellent build quality. The laptop's speed, upgradeable RAM, and high refresh rate are also appreciated, along with its portability. However, some customers have expressed concerns about fan noise, battery life, screen brightness, and heat. Some customers also feel the laptop is heavy for its size.
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Performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
My first gaming laptop
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Crisp and clean! Runs fast, has a great display, and can easily change performance functions to fit your needs. I would definitely reccomend!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great laptop but bad bloatware
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Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great laptop that performes perfectly. I do recommend reinstalling the OS with the basic windows one since the bloatware makes the ram use 9gb/16gb when doing nothing.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Alienware
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Posted . Owned for 7 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Prettu solid gaming laptop for the price fir sure.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ram
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Add more ram!
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Awesome laptop! I upgraded my ram from 16 to 32 and it made it a little more enjoyable!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ram
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Alienware
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Very nice laptop. Upgraded the ram to 32 gb for the laptop for max performance.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Build quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
good deal good quality, happy with the purchase ..
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
good deal good quality, happy with the purchase ..
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Computer
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Excellent computer for all my sons needs also for college
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Laptop
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Posted . Owned for 9 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It ran perfect but started to slow down but best buy always hooks it up with the fixes
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Laptop
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Son enjoys his gaming laptop and he can also do hos homework. Thanks this is a BEST BUY!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good Computer!
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great computer so far. Running 4 screens and playing games. So far not a glitch!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ram
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice Laptop
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Very good product out of the box. Love the changes from last years model. Only downside is the 16GB of RAM but it is upgradable. Dell bloat takes up a good bit of that default 16.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Alienware m16 r2
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This product is amazing, it has excelent perfomance for work and gaming.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great laptop
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So far no issues. Would recommend in the mid end laptop range. Love that it’s 240hz refresh rate.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Build quality
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Blue screens, won't power on, 16G of ram not enoug
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I am currently writing this as I am packing up the "Gaming" Laptop to return it to best buy.
I have always been hesitant to buy a gaming laptop before due to companies like Nvidia adding a 40 series GPU that underperforms and underdelivers, 16GB of RAM is not enough to play any new title that requires the game to run at 1600 resolution, the laptop also likes to freeze and crash often due to the new Nvidia drivers that get worse as they just seem to not care about consumer anymore, I had to go through multiple different drivers to find the correct one as the new ones would simply cause the system to blue screen just by opening google chrome.
Now as for Alienware, the laptop feels nice and premium (for the price it is not surprising) but where it really lacks is using the system. Using the machine in a work environment and trying to do simple tasks seemed overwhelming, it would take seconds at a time to open files, apps etc.. The biggest gripe I have is trying to turn on the device, I would press the button and nothing would happen, I would have to leave it held down for a couple of seconds and the keyboard would light up and then shut back down, it would turn on randomly after multiple times which made me think I was pressing the button incorrectly while my hp laptop never gave me any of these issues above. The battery life is also horrible due to the nature of the refresh rate and "Gamer" specs.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast!!
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This Alienware is a speed machine, despite being a laptop. Although it can run hot, the internal fans kick in as needed. Overall a great machine for both work and play!
I would recommend this to a friend
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Ram
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Favorite laptop I've ever had
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great laptop! I also upgraded the RAM to 32GB and it runs very smooth. I highly recommend
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing gaming laptop
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Fantastic product - setup was simple, exceptionally powerful and reliable. Absolutely looking forward to using this laptop for a long time to come.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Battery life
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good but no battery life
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I think it’s a great laptop but I definitely expected a better battery life. It tends to die after about 2 hours just from surfing the web on the lowest of settings.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great too for engineering school and gaming
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I bought this for my son, an engineering student at NC State University, and he really loves it. He also enjoy it for gaming breaks.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awsome laptop!
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Awsome laptop! Great service from best buy!
Playing Delta Force at 130fps! in ultra