Gaming Laptops In this essay, I will be examining and evaluating gaming laptops. Specifically, I will be looking at the Alienware 14 and the Razer Blade. These two laptops are considered fairly close in comparison while each having their own unique quirks and capabilities, which is why I have chosen these two and not two that are fairly dissimiliar. In each review I will be paying attention to not only their ability to perform, but even more so to their inability to do certain things. First, I will be looking at the Alienware 14. Before I get into the inner hardware of the computer, I will look at the construction of the case and the peripherals such as the trackpad, keyboard, and available ports. The Alienware 14 is made of a magnesium alloy chassis which extends to the hinges, LCD assembly, and the keyboard brackets. It is also wrapped in a thin, smooth, rubber coating that acts as a scratch and dent buffer. The keyboard itself contains backlighting LEDs that are customizable to your liking and extends to various areas across the outside of the laptop, including the lid and sides and extending the the trackpad itself, each having 20 choices of color including black. It has 3 individual USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, a memory card reader, an ethernet port, 2 jacks for headphones depending on what kind you are using, 1 line in jack for a microphone, and a slot loading disc drive. The internal components consist of a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU which is turbo capable to 3.2 Ghz, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 765M graphics card, 16GB of RAM, a 750GB 7,200RPM HDD, and a 256GB mSATA SSD containing the OS files. It also contains other various compenents that are not necessarily crucial to the evaluation of the computer as most, if not all, of the parts are included in most laptops. Next, I will be looking at the properties of the Razer Blade in the same fashion as the