AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all have rather anemic desktop processor roadmaps in place for 2026. Combine that with the horrific ...

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The relaunch of the XPS brand dominated Dell’s CES 2026 announcements, but its Alienware gaming laptop line is also receiving some exciting screen and silicon upgrades. The 16X Aurora and the 16 ...

The Alienware Area-51 was the kind of laptop that gets you excited to game. It felt great on the fingertips thanks to its mechanical keyboard with Cherry Ultra switches. It looked the part—like it had ...

Solid gaming performance. Really bright, 240-Hz display. Convenient ports in the back. Responsive touchpad. Battery life is decent. Keyboard and palm rests get warm. Cheaper gaming laptops perform ...

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If you’re looking for a discount on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti PC, discounts are popping up all over the place. Yesterday, I pointed out iBuyPower is cutting prices ahead of Labor Day, and now Dell ...

The new Area-51 is designed for performance-heavy gaming. It features Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processors and supports up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs, based on NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell ...

What’s “affordable” for a gaming laptop? With generally higher requirements for a discrete graphics card and a fast screen, you can expect to pay more than a standard laptop, but exactly where you ...

GeForce RTX 4090 might be yesterday's flagship, but it's still faster than nearly every GPU on the planet—unless you've somehow tracked down an RTX 5090 at MSRP, in which case, congratulations on your ...

Dell took the opportunity at CES to announce a major branding refresh. The Inspiron, Latitude, and XPS lines are out, and Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max lines are in. On the other hand, Alienware, ...

The Alienware Area-51 desktop PC, a line of high-end gaming rigs dating back to 1998, has returned after several years out of the game. The company announced the new model at CES 2025, describing the ...