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 ...

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 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 ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Dell and Alienware have unveiled five new gaming notebooks that will be hitting the market soon. The new machines include the M15x laptop, the M17x laptops and new gaming desktops. Really, the ...