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 has officially brough the Alienware brand fully under its 35-country wide wing today with the launch of the M17x aka “the most powerful 17-inch laptop in the Universe”. The gaming behemouth was ...

Alienware – the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems – launches the Area-51 m17x, a commanding and aggressive addition to the newly redesigned Area-51 ...

Matt told me the Alienware’s m17x notebook was blinged out like it “just landed on earth after a long trip from a planet populated entirely by a evolved race of disco lights”. I guess this is what he ...

Dell's Alienware gaming computer line has some of the coolest gaming desktops and notebooks on the market packed with lots of cool hardware and good looks. A new version of the Alienware 17-inch ...

Most hardcore gamers couldn't care less about how a gaming laptop looks. Give them the fastest processor and most powerful 3D graphics card and let them get on with the show. While most gaming laptop ...

The baby of the Lint team, Hunter has been a tech fan since he bought his first MiniDisc..and what a waste of money that was. He began writing about electronics at the age of 16 and hasn't stopped ...

The Alienware M17x R4 ($2,599 direct) gaming laptop exudes performance. Its design epitomizes what a gaming laptop should look like, and thanks to a new Ivy Bridge processor and Nvidia Kepler graphics ...

Alienware’s M17x is a supersized beast in an Ultrabook world. Can it prove there’s still a need for the desktop replacement laptop? The M17x retains exactly the same physical design as last year’s ...

A hulking behemoth of a gaming laptop, the M17x certainly isn't something you'd want to lug with you to Costa Coffee. Combining a quad-core 2.3GHz Intel i7-3610QM processor and up to 32GB of RAM, the ...

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