Alienware 17 r4 4k resolution

[infested101]

christmas is near so im about to buy my friends laptop but im kinda confused


can you check this one if it has ips glow or backlight bleeding

https://imgur.com/a/HD7mV


thanks for cheking guys

 

[androbourne]

Need the make/model and/or the serial of the device... To us that is just a picture of a generic Alienware laptop.

 

[infested101]

Need the make/model and/or the serial of the device... To us that is just a picture of a generic Alienware laptop.

sorry bout that
heres the specs

he said it was bought march 2017

17 r4
specs:
i7 6820 hk
gtx 1070 8gb
32gb ddr4 ram
512 gb ssd + 1 tb hdd
4k ips monitor

 

[androbourne]

Still need Need the make/model and/or the serial of the device.

Alienware just like every other vendor will release different gens of their systems. Sometimes with comparable specs of the last gen. We need to know correct info to pull up the exact system to give you a better idea.

If I had to guess it would be this.

https://www.pcmag.com/review/353507/alienware-17-r4-2017

But if we had the serial. We could pull it up on their website and drill deeper down into components properly.

 

[cryoburner]

Just looking at the picture, sure, there appears to be a bit of backlight bleed and IPS glow visible, but that is a nearly solid black screen, which would be the worst-case scenario for that. It's also difficult to say what the lighting conditions were like when that image was taken, but I imagine the screen would look quite a bit better in person. You can tell by the glowing icons that the image was overexposed, so the camera was likely compensating for dim lighting in the room, making the black screen appear much brighter than it would appear in person, blowing out the highlights and exaggerating the glow compared to how it really appears.

 

[infested101]

Just looking at the picture, sure, there appears to be a bit of backlight bleed and IPS glow visible, but that is a nearly solid black screen, which would be the worst-case scenario for that. It's also difficult to say what the lighting conditions were like when that image was taken, but I imagine the screen would look quite a bit better in person. You can tell by the glowing icons that the image was overexposed, so the camera was likely compensating for dim lighting in the room, making the black screen appear much brighter than it would appear in person, blowing out the highlights and exaggerating the glow compared to how it really appears.

so just basing in this picture would you buy this alienware sir ? im just concerned about the heavy backlight bleed

take another look at this sir

https://imgur.com/a/rM3So

 

[cryoburner]

It's kind of hard to tell from such images how bad it might be, and some of that might be reflections from other lighting in the room as well. I was just pointing out that while there is probably some amount of blacklight bleed, the images are likely making it look worse than it is.

A quick search did turn up that a number of people were reporting such issues with the Alienware R3 and R4 laptops though, and at least some amount of backlight bleed seems to be common on these systems. See this thread for example...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/alienware-17r4-15r3-panel-light-bleed-issue-fix.798918/

There is a fix mentioned in that thread that some used to clear up much of the backlight bleed though, which involves opening the back of the panel and removing some strips of foam to alleviate pressure on the panel. That would be a rather invasive procedure though, and you could potentially damage something in the process.