Alienware is all but synonymous with aggressive styling, audacious lighting, and burly machines belching out heat and frame rates. The latest update to the M17x line is no exception; packed into the ...

This week we've been blessed with another look at the most colorful-keyed and unique looking gaming notebook in the Alienware M17X R4, this time complete with Ivy Bridge. This beast works with a ...

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 Test Methodology: As you'll note in the following pages of benchmarks, we've compared the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last time I tested an Alienware gaming laptop was in November 2019, so I jumped at the chance to take a look at the recently announced Alienware m17 R4. Besides a larger display – 17-inch versus ...

What makes a great gaming laptop? You guessed: raw power, eye-popping graphics performance, and muscle-car looks. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite gaming rigs priced between $829 to a dig-deep-in ...

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