New Alienware laptops pack Thunderbolt 3 and prettier screens, but oddly lack Skylake

From PC World: Alienware’s refreshed laptops announced today at Pax Prime will feature better screens, Thunderbolt 3 and even a new AMD GPU but oddly won’t feature Intel’s latest CPU.

The company announced three refreshed laptops: Alienware 13, Alienware 15, and Alienware 17, with the numeral referring to the size of the screen.

Just last week the company announced the return of its monstrous Alienware 18 gaming laptop with two GeForce GTX 980m GPUs inside.

The Alienware 13 gets the option of an IGZO-based IPS panel with a resolution of up to 3200x1800 and a searing 400 nits of brightness. Its top GPU is a GeForce GTX 960m, and for compute power, it’ll offer the option of dual-core “5th” gen Intel Broadwell CPUs. Units with the Core i7 will have the option of a higher density battery as well.

Alienware officials didn’t disclose all of the details about it, but said it’s a perk of being part of the Dell mothership which has made big investments in battery technology. The standard battery is 52 watt hours, with the higher density battery using the same amount of space but offering 62 watt hours.

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