Alienware Just Announced Its First Budget Gaming Laptop

“We made deliberate choices about where to invest and where to pull back,” Alienware writes in a press release the company shared with IGN. It’s a not-so-subtle nod to the ongoing, AI-addled RAM crisis that’s engulfed the tech industry at large.

While the $1,299 seems like a high price for a budget laptop, it’s important to keep in mind that Dell, and by extension Alienware, often puts its laptops on sale. So if you want to grab this laptop, it might be best to wait a couple months to see if the price drops below a thousand bucks. But, with the way PC gaming has been trending so far this year, that’s not exactly guaranteed.

Wes is a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they call him) who has covered technology, gaming, and entertainment steadily since 2020 at Gizmodo, Tom’s Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and most recently, The Verge. Inside of him there are two wolves: one that thinks it wouldn’t be so bad to start collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.