Legion 5 Pro Gen 7 Laptop: 16" 1600p, Ryzen 9 6900HX, 2TB SSD, RTX 3070 Ti Expired

Really depends on what you prioritize in a laptop, and what you'll be using it for. I'll probably have the unpopular opinion here, but I'd personally go with neither, and get the $1399 eBay Legion 5 Pro with the 6800H and 3070ti.

Yes, AMD Advantage is great, and the 6850M XT should be an excellent performer, but:

* 6850M XT does not support DLSS

* I personally do not care for the Alienware bling

* 4K panel on a laptop, even with a powerful GPU like the 6850M XT, is not great for gaming in my opinion. You have to either game at 4K with bad performance, or run your games at a lower resolution, which can look weird. 2560x1600 with a 16:10 aspect ratio, paired with a fairly powerful GPU like a 150W 3070ti is a sweet spot.

* m17 has a 17 inch panel, but it's a 16:9 aspect ratio compared to the Legion 5 Pro's 16:10.

* Build quality and design on the Legion 5 Pro will be better in my personal opinion. I recently returned an M15 R7, and the Legion 5 Pro is better in this area. Excellent cooling design and layout with the internals.

* Are you paying extra for a 32GB RAM bump you don't need? If you're gaming, multitasking, coding, 16GB of fast DDR5 should be enough. Not saying you don't need 32GB, just throwing that out there.

* Legion 5 Pro is not exactly thin and light, but it probably looks like an Ultrabook compared to the m17.

Again, these are mostly personal opinions. $2000 was a good price for the Alienware, but you're not getting night and day performance compared to the Legion 5 Pro.

At $1399, you could throw another roughly $200 into the Legion and get a 2TB SK Hynix P41 NVME drive. That would bring you up to 3TB of super fast storage, and you would still have $400 left over for a Switch OLED + game.

You think the performance gain outruns 32gb of ram or 2TB of SSD storage?!?!? That's an awesome deal my friend!

This almost exact one was on sale at Walmart for $1599 recently.