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 ...

If you're aiming for the smoothest performance possible, the Alienware M17 will have an optional 360Hz 1080p screen, which should be fast enough to capture all of the extra performance you'll be ...

Alienware is refreshing two of its most popular gaming laptops for the new year, the m15 and m17. Both the Alienware m15 and m17 now come with options for Nvidia’s next-generation 30-series graphics ...

Mechanical keyboards have practically been the Holy Grail for gaming laptops. We've seen PC makers like Razer and MSI give them a shot, only to dump the concept entirely. So when Alienware decided it ...

Recommending the Alienware m17 R4 is both easy and difficult for me. As much as I love the idea of having all this gaming performance in a portable and relatively small package, its price veers into ...

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. One of Alienware’s coolest CES 2022 announcements is the ...

Alienware has just announced a new addition to its fleet of outrageously quick gaming laptops. The M17 -- not to be confused with the M17x -- is the first gaming laptop to use ATI CrossFireX dual ...

Alienware is a name synonymous with powerful gaming gear, ranging from the sleek to the unique. And the company is revealing some new tech, including the m15 R3 and m17 R3 laptops, Area-51m R2 laptop, ...

Alienware’s newly upgraded m15 R4 and m17 R4 gaming laptops will trade in their existing GPUs for shiny new—and likely much faster—Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 GPUs this year, the company announced at CES ...

AMD fans looking for an Alienware laptop that flies the flag will finally get their wish with Alienware’s new m17 R5 Ryzen Edition, which kicks not just Intel to the curb, but Nvidia too. The ...

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