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Dell Alienware m15 R6 Laptop: i7-11800H, 15.6" QHD 240Hz, RTX 3070, 1TB SSD Expired

$1466
$2,249.99
w/ Dell Preferred Account Financing + SD CB + Free S/H
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Dell Member Purchase Program has Dell Alienware m15 R6 Laptop for $1466.32 when you checkout w/ Dell Preferred Account as your method of payment following the steps below. Slickdeals Cashback is available for this store (PC extension required, before checkout). Shipping is free.

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Steps
  1. Click here to sign up for unique 10% off email coupon
  2. Click here to visit product page and add to cart
  3. Proceed to checkout
  4. Apply your unique 10% off email code
  5. Apply coupon code DPA5
  6. Checkout with Dell Preferred Account
  7. Total should now be $1466.32 + free shipping
Specs
  • Intel Core i7-11800H Processor (24 MB cache, 8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4.60 GHz Turbo)
  • 15.6" 2560 x 1440 240Hz 2ms Display w/ G-Sync
  • 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 MHz Memory
  • 1TB M.2 PCIe Solid State Drive
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 Graphics
    • 3x Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 1 (one with PowerShare)
    • 1x Type-C (Includes Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Display Port 1.4, and Power Delivery 15W Output (5V/3A) capabilities)
    • 1x HDMI 2.1
  • Alienware mSeries 4-Zone AlienFX RGB Keyboard
  • Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) 802.11ax
  • Windows 11 Home

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Exact way to reproduce:

1. Register a Dell reward account if you don't have.
2. Apply for a Dell AAA 10% coupon here [dell.com], you don't need AAA membership, but require a valid Email address to receive coupon in seconds.
3. Click this link for this exact deal: Link [dell.com] make sure it matches the description and list price is $1714.99 Click add to cart.
4. Proceed to checkout, apply "DPA5" coupon.
5. Apply your Dell 10% off coupon.
6. Proceed to checkout and check 1 Day express shipping for free.
7. Check first payment with Dell Financial Account, If you have Dell rewards, you can apply it now. However, you can't split payment w/ both Dell rewards and Dell Financial Account. You can put $1 on Dell Financial Account to utilize the 5% coupon but charge other payment on your credit card if you have other deals like 5% from Chase/BoA card, 10% from Amex or 699-120 from Amex.
8. Make sure the final price is $1,466.32 and you can get 3% from Dell rewards after delivery and cashbacks from SD too

Reason to choose this machine over m15 r5 Ryzen edition FP deal:
  1. Dell fixed mux switch and cuda cores on 3070, TGP boosted to 130w with BIOS update.
  2. RTX 3070 is better to use with QHD screen, G-sync and Advanced Optimus gives you more battery life on the go w/o switch Mux switch to reboot.
  3. QHD screen come w/ IR camera support windows hello, it have variety of usage not only for login authentication. Such as admin permission and 1Password, Dropbox.
  4. 1TB ssd and 16G DDR both are swappable, x15 or m15 r4 before can't swap memory.
  5. Intel 11 gen have better performance in than Ryzen 5800H, Alienware have more tweak optimization on fan profile and thermal than m15 r5.
  6. It has Thunderbolt 4 port with Power Deliver output
  7. Per Dell support page. r6 support [dell.com] XMP memory while r5 couldn't [dell.com]



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This one is a instant delivery with in days from us warehouse stock. That R4 is on backorder need resemble in China and wait until shipment clear on ports, estimation of delivery is May.
10870H is about 10-20% slower than 11800H both in multithreaded and single thread application.
R6 can swap DDR4 memory and it's 3200, you can upgrade to 32G or 64G. R5 came with soldered 16G memory and it's 2933.
R6 also support PCIE 4.0, the SSD should be substantially faster on specs.
R6 have QHD screen support windows hello, R4 is 1080p 300hz
R6 have Advanced Optimus and Mux switch, R4's always on dGPU thus battery will be a lot less when used in light workload.
Not sure what are you expect an $1400 gaming laptop's screen. It's 240hz QHD IPS 400nits screen and you can't find a miniLED or OLED even close to that refresh rate for less than $5000.
I fully agree his review on that unit and that moment he created the video review, but Jarrod's review happens before 2 important bios update and missed the bigger feature of QHD screen w/ windows hello IR camera:

1. bios update to add Mux switch
2. bios update to add extra power to 130w 3070 TGP instead of 115w

It's Dell's loss to send a premature and inferior unit for him to review. With adequate updates and a better screen like this one, I'd say there is no shortcoming on performance and rich in non gaming features. Alienware m15 never the top performer on market, it's m17 and x17's job.
And for R6 I listed those pros like XMP memory support, TB4 ports and 11800H performance boost are not addressed in that review too.​

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02-21-2022 at 03:58 AM.
02-21-2022 at 03:58 AM.
Quote from baronvdb :
Does anybody know if this thing has the massive power adapter? I bought my son the Dell G15 5511 SE (which I returned bc of a screen issue out of the box) and I was very surprised that the power cord block was almost the size of a tablet. Not a fan of that...

Idk the answer but agree with your concern and one of the primary reasons I stay away from dell Alienware line and amazing deals like this. They are all just insanely heavy. If you use asus zephyrs g14/15 or m15, heft difference is day and night for nearly identical performance..
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02-21-2022 at 04:27 AM.
02-21-2022 at 04:27 AM.
Anyone knows how bright the display is?
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02-21-2022 at 06:46 AM.
02-21-2022 at 06:46 AM.
Quote from baronvdb :
Does anybody know if this thing has the massive power adapter? I bought my son the Dell G15 5511 SE (which I returned bc of a screen issue out of the box) and I was very surprised that the power cord block was almost the size of a tablet. Not a fan of that...
Quote from techbuff :
Idk the answer but agree with your concern and one of the primary reasons I stay away from dell Alienware line and amazing deals like this. They are all just insanely heavy. If you use asus zephyrs g14/15 or m15, heft difference is day and night for nearly identical performance..
Yeah, I think I found the answer. It says "AC Adapter 240W Adapter" which I'm pretty sure is that huge one. I want something my son can use for gaming and school and hauling this laptop was already a stretch before adding that massive power adapter to the equation. I'm going to just have to pay up for the x14 (10% code doesn't work on it bc it's new I guess). still will get 5% from chase and 12% from that other cashback site (today only)

PRO TIP: Let you credit card company know before you place the order so they don't decline the charge. This happened to me so I had to cancel my original order and place it all over again just to make sure I actually get the 12% cashback (dell wanted to cancel and reorder over the phone to re-charge my card but this would have produced a new order ID which I was afraid may void cashback)
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02-21-2022 at 07:16 AM.
02-21-2022 at 07:16 AM.
Lots of deals on Alienware systems. They must be coming out with new models soon. Wink
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tigrad
02-21-2022 at 09:40 AM.
02-21-2022 at 09:40 AM.
Quote from privater :
Not sure what are you expect an $1400 gaming laptop's screen. It's 240hz QHD IPS 400nits screen and you can't find a miniLED or OLED even close to that refresh rate for less than $5000.

If it's IPS that's what I want.

Many of the higher refresh, cheaper laptops have the older LED tech still
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02-21-2022 at 10:20 AM.
02-21-2022 at 10:20 AM.
Quote from AmusedPlastic6071 :
Anyone knows how bright the display is?
Dell Claimed it's 400 nits
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02-21-2022 at 11:20 AM.
02-21-2022 at 11:20 AM.
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Lots of deals on Alienware systems. They must be coming out with new models soon. Wink

*+inflation for marginal gains
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02-21-2022 at 01:26 PM.
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I am waiting for the m17 Ryzen to buy for the wife. It will have the Ryzen 9, 3080 video and 64GB of RAM,
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02-21-2022 at 02:23 PM.
02-21-2022 at 02:23 PM.
Thanks for this post. With the deals and cash back this was an easy time to upgrade
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02-21-2022 at 03:25 PM.
02-21-2022 at 03:25 PM.
Placed an order a few mins ago, I split payment to $1 on DPA, $599 on a Amex Card with $120 off offer, remaining on another Amex Card which has 10% back. Order got canceled almost immediately. Tried twice, no lucky. WTF?
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02-21-2022 at 03:56 PM.
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Placed an order a few mins ago, I split payment to $1 on DPA, $599 on a Amex Card with $120 off offer, remaining on another Amex Card which has 10% back. Order got canceled almost immediately. Tried twice, no lucky. WTF?

Same just happened to me. On hold waiting for verification department.
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02-21-2022 at 04:22 PM.
02-21-2022 at 04:22 PM.
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Same just happened to me. On hold waiting for verification department.

I'm on with them now. He said my order was flagged as unauthorized reseller. He said it was flagged because I was shipping to a business address (my work address).
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02-21-2022 at 04:36 PM.
02-21-2022 at 04:36 PM.
Quote from FairGuide7454 :
Lots of deals on Alienware systems. They must be coming out with new models soon. Wink
They're already out... https://www.dell.com/en-us/member...ing-laptop
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I'm on with them now. He said my order was flagged as unauthorized reseller. He said it was flagged because I was shipping to a business address (my work address).
Did the guy fix the issue for you?
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Did the guy fix the issue for you?

I have to submit a new order. He did say that the issue should be resolved. I may just ship to my house, but don't really want a $1500 laptop sitting on my porch. Also, Amex says the Dell offer should still work since the first order didn't get posted to my account.
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