Alienware x14 i7 RTX 3060
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Primary Camera: 0.9 MPix
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Average of 18 scores (from 26 reviews)
Reviews for the Alienware x14 i7 RTX 3060
Alienware expands its line-up with a new 14-inch model and advertises it as the world’s thinnest gaming laptop, but is a slim device really that beneficial? We review the high-end model of the new Alienware x14 with an Alder Lake Core i7-12700H and GeForce RTX 3060 for 2400 Euros.
Source: Mobile Tech Review
For those of you looking for the most portable gaming laptops, the 14” category is it, and this year Alienware entered the game with their X14. It’s a premium aluminum and magnesium gaming laptop and it’s currently the thinnest gaming laptop on the market. For those looking for horsepower over battery life, it has Intel 12th gen H series processors and GPUs up to our RTX 3060. It has a bright wide gamut 144Hz display, the usual X series advanced cooling and Thunderbolt 4. It’s been out a few months but is often discounted now, making it a temping deal in the arena vs the Razer Blade 14, Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and Acer Predator Triton 300 SE 14” gaming laptops.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 12/25/2022
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/11/2022
Source: Stuff TV
The x14 is the slimmest 14in gaming laptop on the planet, and it’s one of the lightest too. Combine that with its solid mainstream performance, Alienware’s impressive build quality, a great keyboard and sharp screen, and you’ve got the ideal partner for compact gaming. At this size, though, you’ll have to accept compromises. The speakers disappoint, and the pricier Razer Blade 14 has better battery life and quieter operation. If you’ve got a hefty bank account, that laptop is also available with faster components. You shouldn’t really tick every box in a tiny gaming laptop, though, and the Alienware gets the key stuff right thanks to solid quality and performance in almost every important area.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/23/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Matthew Moniz
Review of the Alienware X14 with an I7-12700H and a RTX 3060. It's a beautiful laptop with so much potential but a few little quirks make me a bit uneasy. Watch for the full review!
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/20/2022
Source: PC World
The Alienware’s x14 is the world’s thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop. This is a blessing and a curse. Though portable and sleek, the x14 can’t brush aside the fundamental physics problem of a laptop this small. It’s loud, runs hot, and performs no better than a budget gaming laptop with a 15-inch display and RTX 3060 GPU. Still, the x14 is an admirable performer given its size and specifications. On paper the x14 should be blown away by alternatives with more powerful GPUs, like the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and Razer Blade 14, but real-world results place the Alienware close to its competition. The x14 is also properly priced, with the base model undercutting the Razer Blade 14 by $500. It all comes down to this: do you need a thin 14-inch gaming laptop? If so, the Alienware x14 is a great choice, but if not, go for a 15-inch model.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/20/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Trusted Reviews
The Alienware x14 is the world’s slimmest gaming laptop, and it impresses elsewhere with good gaming performance, a fantastic processor and a great design, screen and keyboard. That said, more gaming grunt is available from other 14-inch machines, and the speakers and battery both struggle to perform.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/14/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Expert Reviews
Squeezing big-boy gaming performance into a compact laptop is always going to be a matter of managing compromises and, viewed from that perspective, the Alienware x14 does most things right. The display is top quality, while the looks and build quality are a match for the rest of the Alienware range. The combination of an Alder Lake Core i7 CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU strikes a very happy balance between performance, thermals and cost of ownership and the sound system isn’t bad, either, considering it’s stuffed inside a laptop that’s less than 15mm thick. The trouble is that, for similar money, Asus has a laptop – the ROG Zephyrus G14 (2022) – that’s just as good performance-wise, comes with more RAM and has better battery life. That makes it the best option in the compact Windows gaming laptop space, just ahead of the Alienware x14, although the difference is marginal.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/06/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Mash IT
In this video we review the Alienware X14 with 12th gen i7 12700h and RTX 3060. Is this mini Alien a contender in the 14" gaming category?
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/23/2022
Source: Tom's Guide
The Alienware x14 is easily one of the most distinctive-looking gaming laptops of 2022. Its all-white ultra-thin chassis and dual-torque hinge set it apart from other devices. On the inside, it’s a more-than-competent portable gaming rig that delivers solid performance thanks to its RTX 30 series GPU and advanced cooling features. And though its $1,649 starting price isn’t exactly cheap, it’s more affordable than thicker gaming laptops like the Razer Blade 17 ($2,400) or Maingear Vector Pro ($1,999). My only gripe with the laptop is its lack of an OLED model. The FHD display is great, but it doesn’t present games at their very best. Because of this, you may want to opt for a rig like the 4K OLED-equipped Razer Blade 17 if you care deeply about display quality in your gaming laptops. But if you're all about gaming on the go and prize portability over power, the Alienware x14 is a great choice.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/24/2022
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Engadget
The x14 might not be quite as powerful as its bigger siblings, but given its even more portable dimensions, there's a lot to like. When compared to a $1,800 x14 with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and an RTX 3060, a similarly equipped x15 costs just $50 less. The main trade-offs being a little less thermal headroom, a more cramped keyboard and a slightly slower 144Hz screen (instead of 165Hz on the x15). That's not a lot to sacrifice for an even more travel-friendly thin-and-light design. However, if you don't need a new gaming laptop right now, the smart move would be to wait a month or two for some of Alienware's competitors to release updated systems for 2022. Both Razer and ASUS are coming out with refreshed versions of their 14-inch gaming laptops later this spring, and once those become available, we'll have a much better idea of how the x14 fares against its biggest rivals. But if you like the x14’s combination of style and sleekness, this is a slick gaming laptop that’s made to move.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/16/2022
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Engadget
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/16/2022
Source: PC Mag
The Alienware x14 is an excellent 14-inch gaming notebook, an all-around solid laptop, and the best effort within the X Series thus far. It retains the sleek look while matching or besting its competition on performance, avoiding the power dropoff we see in the x15 and x17. Going super-compact really adds value at this size, making for a genuinely road-ready gaming laptop. The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is also great, but it’s the Razer Blade 14 that really trades blows with Alienware’s machine. The Blade 14 features a more premium metal build; its RTX 3070 configuration is less expensive than what we reviewed here; and its display is more advanced at 1440p and 165Hz. The Blade 14 (and the G14) will be receiving AMD’s Ryzen 6000 processors early this year, too, so the current processor advantage isn’t intrinsic to the x14, and won’t hold forever. On the other hand, a smaller SSD would put the price advantage back to the x14; its ready-now Alder Lake CPU is blazing fast; and its RTX 3060 stacks up to the Blade’s RTX 3070.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/11/2022
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Techradar
Thin and light gaming laptops like the Alienware X14 are becoming more common as mobile PC components become more power efficient and PC makers get better at designing cooling systems that don't take up as much space. We've already seen a few laptops try to pack high power and light weight in a single chassis, but now Alienware is throwing its legendary hat - and design into the ring. And, it ends up with one of the thinnest and lighting gaming laptops we've ever used. This laptop is just 0.57 inches thick and weighs just under 4lb, making it easy to carry in your backpack. But it doesn't sacrifice power to fit in that chassis. The model we reviewed comes with an Intel Core i7-12700H, 32GB of RAM and an RTX 3060. That's not the most powerful hardware on the market, but its more than what you'll find in most laptops this size. But with that high power in such a portable chassis, you're going to have to pay.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/11/2022
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: The Verge
And that’s where Intel-based laptops have seemingly plateaued, as opposed to AMD’s past couple of CPU generations, which have shown vast improvements in efficiency. With Microsoft Edge running over a dozen tabs that I need for work, the X14 lasted just over four and a half hours. That’s a couple of hours less than what I was expecting, especially since Alienware brags that its 80Wh battery is the largest capacity ever put into a 14-inch gaming laptop. This merely acceptable battery life is not far from my experience with Alienware’s bigger 15-inch and 17-inch gaming laptops. I’m confident that the incoming wave of AMD-equipped models will improve on the results that we’ve seen so far with Alder Lake. Fortunately, the X14 conveniently charges via USB-C, and it comes with a compact 130W USB-C charger. What’s more, Alienware says that you can use any USB-C PD charger to charge the X14. But unless you’re using a relatively speedy one, the X14 may actively drain instead of charging.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/11/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: The Verge
And that’s where Intel-based laptops have seemingly plateaued, as opposed to AMD’s past couple of CPU generations, which have shown vast improvements in efficiency. With Microsoft Edge running over a dozen tabs that I need for work, the X14 lasted just over four and a half hours. That’s a couple of hours less than what I was expecting, especially since Alienware brags that its 80Wh battery is the largest capacity ever put into a 14-inch gaming laptop. This merely acceptable battery life is not far from my experience with Alienware’s bigger 15-inch and 17-inch gaming laptops. I’m confident that the incoming wave of AMD-equipped models will improve on the results that we’ve seen so far with Alder Lake. Fortunately, the X14 conveniently charges via USB-C, and it comes with a compact 130W USB-C charger. What’s more, Alienware says that you can use any USB-C PD charger to charge the X14. But unless you’re using a relatively speedy one, the X14 may actively drain instead of charging.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/11/2022
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Engadget
Alienware's X14 has pushed the limits for how "thin and light" a Windows gaming laptop can be. The X14 is a sleek new laptop that's trying to push in the space recently dominated by the Razer Blade 14, and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/05/2022
Source: Techradar
The Alienware X14 is just a smaller version of a winning design from Alienware, so it looks promising. What’s really going to make or break this laptop is how well performance and thermals will scale with this chassis. We are also not huge fans of the extra bit on the back of the laptop that stops it from fitting in smaller bags, but we’re sure that’s a problem that will only apply to a minority of this laptop’s potential audience anyway. But from what it looks like, this is going to be an excellent gaming laptop for on-the-go use, and we can’t wait to carry it around for a while to see if Alienware’s vision has been executed.
Hands-On, online available, Short, Date: 01/04/2022
Source: Tom's Guide
The Alienware x14 looks like a great gaming laptop for those who want solid performance from a portable device. Though not exactly cheap at a starting price of $1,799, it is relatively affordable for a machine of its kind. We’re impressed by its slick design, crisp 14-inch display and the number of available configurations. 12th gen CPUs and RTX 30-series GPUs are what we expect to be the standard for 2022 laptops and it’s good that the Alienware x14 features both out of the box. Alienware’s exclusive suite of power-saving and performance-enhancing features should also make this laptop last long on charge. Based on what I’ve seen, the Alienware x14 has the potential to be one of the best gaming laptops of 2022. We’ll see if this is true once we spend more time with it.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/04/2022
Foreign Reviews
Source: Computerbase
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/19/2022
Source: Charles Tech
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/21/2022
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 90% display: 90% mobility: 60% ergonomy: 90%
Source: Les Numeriques
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/12/2022
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 100% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 60%
Source: Les Numeriques
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/12/2022
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 100% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 60%
Source: Frandroid
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/05/2022
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 70% display: 80% mobility: 50% workmanship: 60%
Source: 01Net
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/30/2022
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 90% mobility: 100%
Source: Clubic
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/24/2022
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%
Source: Alt om Data
DA→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/04/2022
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 67% performance: 83%
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Alienware is back with its new 14-inch laptop, claiming it to be the world’s thinnest gaming laptop. Well, in terms of its design, the new Alienware x14 hardly differs from its larger siblings x15 and x17. Since the case is supposed to be as slim as possible, the construction has been done in such a way where the display hinge is shifted towards the front. This eventually makes the laptop seem to be very deep. This simply means that the keyboard is also shifted towards the front of the base unit, making the palm rests pretty small. In comparison to the larger siblings, there is no illumination at the rear either, only the keyboard and the alien head on the lid of the x14 can be illuminated. This model only comes in the Lunar Silver colour, which does look good in pictures. But it is worth noting that the laptop’s bright surfaces quickly attract dirt and need to be cleaned quite often. On the other hand, the upper part of the base unit, the rear, as well as the display frame, is black, which definitely creates a nice contrast. Apart from that, the bezels at the sides are pretty slim, but the lower bezel is very wide though.
In terms of its connectivity, x14 has been equipped with the Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI 2.1. In addition, there are three USB-C ports (one of them is usually blocked by the power adapter) and a regular USB-A port. However, the issue with this model is that all ports are located at the rear (even the stereo jack) and therefore making it rather hard to access. This laptop also carries a 720p webcam for user convenience. As mentioned earlier, the slim construction does affect the keyboard. The basic layout (including full-size arrow keys) is identical to the larger Alienware x15 but the key travel has been reduced from 1.5 mm to 1.2 mm and this is quite noticeable. The typing experience might not be that bad by any means as the keystrokes are still very precise and comparatively quiet. However, it is worth mentioning that it might not be as comfortable as compared to the larger x15. Apart from that, the keyboard also supports N-key rollover for multiple keyboard inputs simultaneously. The colour of the keyboard illumination can be adjusted but there is just one zone. However, the special functions such as volume and brightness control are not illuminated though. Due to the shifted keyboard position, there is not much room left for a large touchpad, either. The height of the click pad on this laptop is very limited at just 10.8 x 5.5 cm. This model comes with only one display option which is the matte 1080p IPS screen with 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9) including fast response times and a high refresh rate of 144 Hz. As far as the processor is concerned, the Alienware x14 comes in with the Core i7-12700H paired with NVIDIA GeForce RTX3060 GPU. Overall, it is a great slim gaming laptop to be explored.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA106 chip with 3072 cores. Available in different versions with a TDP from 60 to 115 Watt.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i7-12700H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 20 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.7 to 4.7 GHz and supports vPro.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.00":
There are hardly any tablets in this display size range anymore. For subnotebooks, on the other hand, it is the standard format.
The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small and therefore easily portable. The smaller display also has the advantage of requiring less power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is more strenuous on the eyes. High resolutions are more likely to be found in standard laptops.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Alienware: Alienware was founded in the USA in 1996. The European headquarters is located in Ireland. Alienware has been part of the Dell Group since 2006. The product range mainly focuses on gaming laptops and desktops, which are developed and manufactured by Dell. The trademark is a slightly futuristic design with an Alien as the logo. Additionally, workstations for private and business customers are sold.
As with every brand, there are also some points of criticism with Alienware. Some customers have complained about the high prices of the products, while others have criticized the quality of customer services. There have also been some reports of problems with the reliability and durability of some Alienware products. However, many customers have also had positive experiences with the brand and appreciate the powerful gaming computers.
78.21%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
