Display Characteristics
We measured the brightness and blackness of Dell’s XPS M1730 display and its Alienware Area-51 m9750 sibling using a scanning device. Charts for each were set to the same scale and range for an easy comparison.
Dell’s XPS M1730 17" display (above) is nearly twice as bright as that of Alienware’s Area-51 m9750 (below), but with nearly twice the variation in brightness level. Brightness variation typically increases with brightness level, however, so Alienware’s "superior" uniformity is likely a product of its inferior light levels.
Dell has the lead in brightness. The brighter monitor thus helps to make it possible to see what is on the display in high-light conditions. But does the extra light wash out the darks?
The XPS M1730 not only has brighter brights, but it has darker darks as well (above) compared to its Alienware m9750 sibling (below). A contrast ratio that approaches the coveted 1000:1 level advertised by so many desktop display companies is quite an achievement for a notebook, even though variation across the screen’s area appears to be a little high.
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Dell XPS's are nice, but to be fair the application performance is irrelevant. The huge cost of these are only justified by the gaming performance.
In this the Low Res gaming, doesn't matter a toss either. Alienware probably have better build quality. Do you notice as well that only the dell got the look inside and out. Biased article. If you have a choice never buy dell.
I don't understand why you would bench compare the two machines with two different operating systems. This make the whole comparision between them very inaccurate.
At least use the same os configuration if you want to compare benchmarks between the two.
A very unprofessional article.