The Alienware 15 sets out to balance affordability and performance, but whether it succeeds depends on personal preferences.

Asus’s PA40SU is a good-looking 40Gbps enclosure with on-par performance and exceptionally easy, tool-less SSD installation. Our only caveat is that it runs quite warm despite an internal fan. Asus’s ...

When it comes to digital storage, there are two main players to consider — the older HDD format and the newer SSD. At first glance, choosing between them should be a no-brainer, certainly in a speed ...

The Alienware Aurora R16 brings high-end performance to gamers and creators seeking a prebuilt gaming PC deal that blends power, design, and future-proofing. Equipped with the RTX 5080 gaming PC GPU, ...

A new SSD or a larger hard drive makes a PC faster. They come in handy when we want to improve a PC’s performance and storage. Cloning a hard drive or SSD lets us carry over the data and contents to ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Alienware stomped into CES 2026 with a bunch of new gaming laptops with new flagship Area-51 gaming laptops in 18-inch and 16-inch variants, a new 16X ...

After relaunching its Area-51 brand with a new 16-inch laptop in 2025, Alienware is teasing two new laptops at CES 2026 in an attempt to reach an even larger audience. Dell's gaming brand plans to ...

Traditional Hard drives, or HDD in short, are commonly found in older PCs and laptops. Hard drives are mechanical devices with magnetic platters that spin and an arm that reads or writes data. These ...

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 ...

Gaming laptops are an interesting market, and there are a ton of great options to choose from. The Alienware 16X Aurora is just one of them, and it’s the smaller cousin to the Alienware 18 Area-51 I ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The Alienware Area-51 (AAT2250) is quite something. Its ...