{"id":2499,"date":"2017-02-25T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/alienware-13-r3-powerful-and-pretty-if-you-dont-mind-junk-in-the-trunk\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T19:00:15","slug":"alienware-13-r3-powerful-and-pretty-if-you-dont-mind-junk-in-the-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/alienware-13-r3-powerful-and-pretty-if-you-dont-mind-junk-in-the-trunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Alienware 13 R3: Powerful and pretty, if you don\u2019t mind junk in the trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Say hello to the Alienware 13 R3. (credit: Sam Machkovech)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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It\u2019s a good time to be in the market for\u00a0a gaming laptop that doesn\u2019t look stupid. Higher-powered laptops have begun to tick crucial checkboxes across the board, and<\/a> with smaller, pills<\/a> super-powered GPUs landing in much less garish designs. In some cases, the result is a laptop you\u2019ll love using\u2014and won\u2019t be ashamed to be seen<\/em> using in public.<\/p>\n

One of the latest to catch our eye is Alienware\u2019s \u201cR3\u201d update to its 13-inch model. While some of its SKUs\u00a0may not win affordability awards, the R3 officially counts as a damned good laptop, gaming or otherwise. If your budget has room for a single portable productivity machine, Alienware might have the right balance of power, weight, design, and functionality for you, not to mention decent battery life\u00a0in a pinch.<\/p>\n

But first, let\u2019s talk about this laptop\u2019s tushie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Say hello to the Alienware 13 R3. (credit: Sam Machkovech) It\u2019s a good time to be in the market for\u00a0a gaming laptop that doesn\u2019t look stupid. Higher-powered laptops have begun to tick crucial checkboxes across the board, and with smaller, pills super-powered GPUs landing in much less garish designs. In some cases, the… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t