Shiny and Pricey.

Alienware’s 16X Aurora and Area-51 laptops won a Best of CES 2026 Award for adding beautiful OLED displays to the line. These computers have Intel Core Ultra 200HX chips and up to RTX 5090 graphics.

At CES 2026, Alienware announced a complete refresh of its gaming laptop lineup. The company brought back the Area-51 name with 16-inch and 18-inch models and introduced the Alienware 16X Aurora, a ...

2026 has already seen recent surges in the cost of DDR5 RAM and higher end Nvidia GPUs. Unfortunately this also affects the price of prebuilt gaming PCs, which is also expected to rise through this ...

The 16X Aurora looks the part and has a gamer-grade display, but while it’s a more attainable take on the usual Alienware formula, it still carries a hefty premium compared to other RTX 5060 laptops ...

Mainstream gaming laptops walk a fine line: They must provide more premium features to justify stepping up from budget models without crossing into high-end pricing. Lenovo’s Legion 5i Gen 10 ...

In case you missed the memo, Intel has officially launched its Core Ultra Series 3 processors, codenamed Panther Lake. These chips are a significant step forward for the brand, with new architectures ...

The northern lights are expected to be visible in the lower 48 states on Friday and Saturday nights thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issued a rare S4 solar radiation storm on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, which is the first solar radiation storm rated at 4 (out of 5) since October 2003. This ...

Computers are my lifelong obsession. I wrote my first laptop review in 2005 for NotebookReview.com, continued with a consistent PC-reviewing gig at Computer Shopper in 2014, and moved to PCMag in 2018 ...