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 ...

If you've been waiting for a next-gen Intel Core gaming machine to land then there's really no need to hang around any longer. The Alienware M17x is a significant improvement on what was already a ...

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 ...

We patch Crysis to v1.21 and run it in DirectX 10 mode with High detail settings at the native resolution of the laptop's screen with 2x AA and no AF to give a reasonably real-world test. We load a ...

The screen is joined by speakers that are among the loudest that we’ve heard on a laptop, delivering a decent amount of bass and respectable sound, even if the mid-range was slightly tinny. They’ll ...

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" ...

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 ...