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Most laptop manufacturers offer at least one full-performance gaming/work laptop with an 18-inch display as of 2025. In this article, I’m explaining what to expect in terms of size, screen quality, ...

Razer’s Blade 18 outperforms basically everything else out there, with an exception or two. This relatively quiet gaming notebook does suffer from the short battery life of its rivals, and the default ...

The Lenovo Legion 9i is everything a high-end gaming laptop should be, pairing high-end hardware with liquid cooling and a bright and beautiful display for HDR gaming. But it has a price tag to match.

The plastic chassis doesn’t scream premium for the price. It’s not alone in that regard—the Titan and Strix are mostly plastic, too—but the Alienware m18 R2 exudes a more luxe feel with its metal lid, ...

As one of the debut 18-inch gaming laptops last year, the first Alienware m18 reviewed well, earning our first Editors' Choice award in the category. Now, the new Alienware m18 R2 (starts at $1,899.99 ...

I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years, and I love PC gaming. I've played games on my computer for as long as I can remember, which eventually (as it does for many) led me to build and ...

You may know what the best gaming laptops are, but what if you’d like to explore even more options? Nearly every laptop brand has some gaming angle — even MacBooks are on the gaming train these days — ...

In this article, we’re discussing the 2023 Dell Alienware m18 and Alienware m16 lineups of full-size gaming/performance laptops, the most powerful Alienware notebooks available for the 2023 generation ...

Last year's original x14 was similarly sized, but it looked quite different from the R2 version here. This is part of Alienware’s tweaked design language (which it calls "Legend") for the current ...