One of the more, well, special aspects of this special edition is the set of all-AMD
core components. For $1,199, Dell includes a Ryzen 7 4800H processor, a
Radeon RX 5600M GPU, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB solid-state drive. This
is an appealing combination, even though the price pushes from budget toward
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4600H processor, the same GPU, 8GB of memory, and a 256GB SSD. The top-
end $1,299 model is the same as our test unit, but it swaps the drive for a 1TB
SSD. (There’s also an ordinary non-special edition of this laptop, but it’s
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I will say that the 512GB storage capacity of our unit is somewhat disappointing,
though. In general, I have an increasingly hard time recommending that anyone
buy a new gaming laptop with such a small amount of storage, given the size of
modern game installations. As I’ve experienced with laptops I test-drive for
review, by the time you install a few of your favorite games, the drive is full or
nearly full. Having to start juggling what’s installed or to be unable to play
something new because you ran out of room is not a way to make you feel
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an issue now than it was a year ago when we reviewed that laptop. At the time of
this writing, my PC’s installation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare comes in at
180GB on its own—more than a third of this laptop’s storage would be taken up
by one game! This is an extreme example, but it’s a very popular title, and
plenty of other games are close to or over 100GB.