A huge, powerful desktop replacement at a surprisingly affordable price. If a laptop weighs nearly 10 pounds, can you comfortably hold it on your lap? Probably not, and that’s why we call gaming ...

Page 8: Game Tests: Lost Planet 2, Just Cause 2 Page 9: Battery Life Page 10: Performance Summary & Conclusion Next we fired up some high-end game engines to allow the Alienware M17x to stretch its ...

To remove the lid you’ll have to remove the battery and undo two screws. The smaller two-heatpipe heatsink takes care of CPU cooling, while a three-heatpipe heatsink is placed on top of the GPU. We ...

If you're in the market for a high-end laptop, your time is dwindling to grab a 2012 model at a closeout price. Haswell may have been released over a month ago, but new PCs with the 4th gen Intel ...

Dell is refreshing its gaming laptop lineup with new Alienware M15 and M17 R4 models. Both will be available with up to an Intel Core i9-10980HK octa-core processor, NVIDIA RTX 3000 graphics, and ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...

Alienware is refreshing two of its most popular gaming laptops for the new year, the m15 and m17. Both the Alienware m15 and m17 now come with options for Nvidia’s next-generation 30-series graphics ...

Page 8: Game Tests: Lost Planet 2, Just Cause 2 Page 9: Battery Life Page 10: Performance Summary & Conclusion Test Methodology: As you'll note in the following pages of benchmarks, we've compared the ...

The Alienware M17x-R4 is the fourth incarnation of the company’s high-end 17-inch gaming laptop series. As usual, consumers are left with a choice of several predefined configurations, but true ...