The Morning After: Alienware’s spectacular, costly QD-OLED gaming monitor | Engadget

Have you been saving up for some new PC gaming {hardware}? Want one thing somewhat extra satisfying than only a easy graphics card improve? Well, we’ve simply examined out two spectacular additions to pine after: Razer’s current OLED-equipped, high-refresh-rate Blade 15 gaming laptop computer and the equally attractive — however extra static — Alienware QD-OLED gaming monitor.

Now to the shock of none of you, they’re each costly. But we expect they might be value it. Razer’s new Blade 15 (we examined the $3,700 configuration… whoa) has a big selection of excessive refresh charge show choices, together with each LCD and OLED. There’s a premium aluminum chassis with bigger keycaps, too. But, I repeat, it’s nearly $4,000.

Meanwhile, Alienware’s 34-inch curved QD-OLED monitor has Samsung’s new Quantum Dot OLED panel and rings in at $1,299. Sure, in comparison with Apple’s $1,599 Studio Display, it is nearly cheap, however towards many different displays, it is a premium choice. Both evaluations are dwell over on the positioning now.

— Mat Smith 

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