Affordable, but not cheap: Alienware unveils Aurora 16 and Aurora 16X gaming laptops

Alienware - a brand that belongs to the company Dell - released two models of gaming laptops, which are positioned as the most budget in the line, but it is difficult to call them cheap.

Here's What We Know

Aurora 16 and Aurora 16X are offered to buyers.

The laptops are made in a minimalist design and have a diagonal of 16″.

• The display of the base Aurora 16 has a resolution of 2560×1600, a brightness of 300 nits and a refresh rate of 120Hz.
• The Aurora 16X supports the same resolution, but the peak brightness is 500 nits and the refresh rate reaches 240Hz.

Both laptops will offer an RTX 5070 graphics card at the max, with the base model starting with an RTX 3050 and 8GB of RAM and featuring an Intel Raptor Lake (2022) processor.

The Aurora 16X in the base version has an RTX 5060 and 16GB of RAM. Configurations up to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of inbuilt storage are available, but their price has not yet been specified. The 16X model features the latest Arrow Lake chips up to the Core Ultra 9 275HX.

The laptops start at $1149 for the Aurora 16 and c $1949 for the Aurora 16X.

Source: Dell