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Too bad their build quality is absolutely shit. I'd always wanted an Alienware growing up, but they were way out of my budget. In 2020, I bought my wife and I new Alienware laptops. $5000 worth of laptops. Mine did a firmware update and died in 2023. Dell offered to diagnose it for $200 if I shipped it to them. My wife's has had to be repaired 3 times, and her hdmi port died yesterday.
I have a 2018 XPS and its build quality is quite good.
The plastic coating on mine has gone all sticky.
The palm rest on mine is a little tacky, that's a good point. I might have to try to wipe the soft-touch coating off with some isopropanol.