Those waiting for a Coffee Lake refresh for the latest Alienware 13 gaming laptop should give up all hope because Frank Azor has just confirmed that such a thing is not in the cards. The models currently available on the market use 6th and 7th generation Intel processors, as well as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/1050 Ti/1060 graphics.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/No-Coffee-Lake-refresh-coming-to-the-Alienware-13.315414.0.html
Very disappointing.
The Dell Alienware 15 R4 (2018) has unergonomic sidebuttons and quite frankly is a big too large.
The XPS 15 9370 (2018) has a dealbreakingly bad keyboard for writers, and Lenovo's only comparitively fast machine the ThinkPad P52 costs well over $4000 if you need the P3200 graphics.
No idea if the ThinkPad P1 will be the long overdue XPS 15 1-to-1 rival, but it may not come out before end of Brexit because Lenovo loves to be almost a year behind competitors with internals.