This is almost completely unrelated to the excellent video above, but I actually owned one of those Alienware laptops mentioned near the beginning of the video.
An M17X specifically, seen here in all its dusty glory as I haven't dug this thing out in years. This thing was crazy, I'm not an expert on components and also way too lazy to dig up what this model specifically had in it, but it had very respectable gaming hardware for its time, with a primary 128gb SSD and a secondary 1tb HDD. It also had a built-in Blu-ray reader? Which I continued to bust out for disc ripping for a couple of years after I stopped using the machine back when I had a hobby where I bought Blu-rays. Its HDMI in feature didn't come up super often for my purposes, but the times I did use it were great and I was surprised to find out this never became a regular laptop feature because it feels so obvious.
Of course, whichever particular revision of it I have (I think this is r4? The label on the laptop itself doesn't specify but I feel like I remember it being r4) also came with a manufacturing error that caused the whole machine to lock up in a loading loop at random forcing you to hard-shut down. I never bothered to identify specifically what was causing it, but I suspect something with one of the drives was doing it because frequently what triggered it was just attempting to load folders, but it would also sometimes happen on system startup. It didn't happen super often, maybe once a week at worst, and I know for certain this wasn't a problem specific to my machine only because... Everyone else in my class also experienced it. Yeah, this was a school-provided laptop because my biggest shame is that I went to uni for game development. (I was young, I didn't know what to do with my life, you're expected to go immediately into higher education after high school which is generally free in my country and the nationalized student loans have very low interest. No I did not learn anything useful there and the few things I did learn I have not retained.😭 Love the city it was located in though worth it.)
This being a laptop I had for uni meant that I had to carry it back and forth from my apartment to school every day. My accommodations were furthest away out of anyone in my class with a 40min walk, and this thing, similar to the Qosmio, is a complete brick. I don't have a scale at home, but apparently according to specs I can find online it weighed "only" around 5kg? I swear it's way heavier than that though, and I'm not a big guy. This thing blasted me with back pain multiple times, completely useless as a laptop I never wanted to bring it anywhere!!!
After I finished school I bought it out for a very nice discount rather than returning it and continued using the thing as a home machine comfortably for another 5 years or so until I finally had a bit of economy to replace it with something slightly shinier. Hateful brick, it served me well.
