The Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop with RTX 5090, Core Ultra 9, 64GB RAM is on sale right now for $6,349.99, which is $850 off the regular price. This is not a budget tower by any stretch, but if ...

Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop with RTX 5090, 64GB RAM is marked down to $4,349.99 right now, which is an $800 drop from the regular price. If you have been pricing out top-end gaming laptops, you ...

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Western Digital is completely sold out of hard drive production capacity through 2026 due to massive demand from AI data centers. PCWorld reports that hard drive prices have surged nearly 50% in just ...

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Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.

Really? Hard drives?

The Alienware 16X starts at $1,549 and caps out at $2,699. There are two GPU versions, one with an RTX 5060 and the other with an RTX 5070. However, the RTX 5060 comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX ...

Key HDD suppliers WD and Seagate have both allocated their entire 2026 production output for sale, likely worsening PC component shortages and price rises.

The HDD supply crunch isn't driven solely by AI data centers. China's government-backed PC replacement program has also been a major demand driver.

If you're keeping an eye on the electronics world, you're already seeing price increases on all kinds of chips, from graphics cards to SSDs. If you have to back up some stuff, buy a new drive sooner ...