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" ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This morning at CES 2015, Dell introduced a range of new Windows 8.1 products across its ...

If it doesn't, it may be or have gotten abnormally heat-sensitive (the SSD slot on the R4 17 is in a cooler part of the case but still gets no airflow, and a desktop is usually even cooler unless the ...

It’s been a couple years since we reviewed the Alienware 17 gaming laptop. While the general design remains closely the same, there are some design changes and the specs of the latest are much better, ...

Picking a gaming laptop is a more intense decision than picking a desktop or individual components. You can’t just throw in a new graphics card or CPU in a few years to improve performance. Outside of ...

Listen, Alienware, we need to talk. Once upon a time you were the company when it came to gaming laptops. And I mean that quite literally—nobody else even made gaming laptops, so it was basically ...

The Alienware m17 R5 laptop features a 17" 1080p 480Hz G-SYNC IPS display, AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPU, 16GB of DDR5-4800MHz RAM, and 1TB SSD. The AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU boasts a ...