[SomeHacker44]

Your points are largely moot, IMO. Nearly any laptop you can buy has super quick NVMe SSDs, super quick CPUs, and even great monitors. Heck, my Alienware 13R3 has an OLED monitor that puts the 13" MBP TB that I have to total shame.

Since everyone is running essentially commodity Intel hardware with commodity SSDs and commodity RAM and commodity GPUs with third-party sourced flat panels, the only thing that matters is the Touch Bar, keyboard and trackpad, and no matter how great the trackpad is, the Touch Bar is so bad it destroys everything else, and the keyboard and how loud it is destroys the rest.

[dkonofalski]

Except that's your opinion... I love the Touch Bar and I love the new keyboard. It's no louder when I'm typing than it was when I was typing on my old Dell and yet I'm much faster on it since the keys don't wobble like they did on the Dell. The trackpad is awesome and I haven't been able to find the display that even comes close on any laptop without getting into the same price range.

[chadcmulligan]

While the alienware is a mighty machine, it's aesthetics and market are somewhat different. There are a number of feature points that differentiate it in my mind (weight, heat, elegance, glowing touchpad etc), I think we'll have to agree to disagree.