Alienware Upgrades Its Best Gaming Laptop
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Discover the Alienware Aurora 16: a stylish, high-performance mid-range gaming laptop with a competitive edge and premium features.
As announced at CES 2026 (and revealed in a pre-briefing event held in New York), the panels feature a response time of 0.2 milliseconds, 15 times faster than before (3ms), WQXGA resolution (2,560 x 1,600), a 240Hz refresh rate, a peak brightness of 620 nits, and an anti-glare coating that reduces gloss by 32 percent.
Is the Alienware 16 Aurora worth buying? The short answer is no, no it is not. I understand that its low starting price of $1,100 is tempting and the refined design in a pleasing deep blue hue makes it look better than most gaming laptops at this price ...
The Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop will now feature AMD’s latest Ryzen 9000 series processors, including the Ryzen 7 9700X, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and Ryzen 9 9950X3D, paired with NVIDIA RTX 50 Series GPUs, up to the RTX 5090. Here are the specifications of the Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop, featuring AMD Ryzen processors:
When sitting side by side, Dell's two midrange gaming laptops, the Alienware 16 Aurora and 16X Aurora, are nearly indistinguishable. Each features a roomy, 16-inch, 2.5K IPS display wrapped in a buttoned-up navy enclosure. Aside from their ample size, they ...
Alienware gaming laptops have always been known for their power and sturdy engineering, but their screens have always kept them from the very top of my recommendation pile. While last year saw a number of brands embrace high-speed OLEDs in their best gaming laptops,