For a limited time, Dell is offering an Alienware m15 R5 15" AMD Ryzen 7 5800H gaming laptop with RTX 3070 video card for only $1499.99, down from its original $2400 price point. That's very competitive with pretty much any other brand name RTX 3070 laptop on the market. What makes this deal even more impressive is that this laptop is significantly more powerful than most other RTX 3070 laptops, for reasons explained below.
Alienware m15 R5 RTX 3070 Gaming Laptop
This Alienware m15 laptop is equipped with a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 8-core processor, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and of course the RTX 3070 video card. The AMD variant of the Alienware m15 laptop has proven to be more powerful than the Intel variant, so if maximum performance is what you're after, this is the config that you want to get.
The RTX 3070 found in this laptop has a TDP rating of 125W (115W + 10W dynamic boost), which is higher than the RTX 3070 TDP rating you'll find in most other gaming laptops. Higher TDP means more power is supplied to the graphics card, and that directly equates to better performance in games. Most laptops are willing to sacrifice gaming performance in order to conserve power and reduce heat, allowing for thinner laptop designs with more basic cooling. Alienware laptops, however, prioritize gaming performance first and foremost. The video cards are more powerful, the proprietary "Cryo-Tech" cooling is more effective at cooling the components, and the main tradeoff is more weight. At around 5.5lbs, it's still considerably lighter than any of its predecessors.