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Back in 2024, I was taken in by the pretty views of Alienware’s 32-inch curved 4K 240Hz QD-OLED monitor. Since then, however, the company’s monitors appear to have gone a bit off the rails. If I ...

Alienware has made some of our favorite OLED monitors in recent years. But at Computex, the company revealed a new high-end option that it says is the "most ambitious display" it's ever made. Equipped ...

PCWorld reports that a faulty HP BIOS update delivered through Windows Update is causing expensive laptops to freeze during boot and display Blue Screen of Death errors. The issue has persisted for ...

A hot potato: HP is again under pressure over its firmware, with a wave of user reports linking recent BIOS updates to serious failures in some premium laptops. On support forums and in community ...

HP’s auto-installed BIOS update is bricking ZBook Ultra and EliteBook X laptops. Reverting requires a specific HP USB-C dongle. HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows ...

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The “budget” gaming laptop always seemed like a misnomer. In today’s age, with RAM prices through the stratosphere and gadgets suffering from shrinkflation, any notion of affordability is practically ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Alienware has always been known for its over-the-top and expensive gaming PCs, but it just announced the Alienware 15, its first true budget gaming laptop. The Alienware 15 will come with either an ...

A cheaper Alienware gaming laptop sounds great—until you look at what was cut to get there. After starting my career at PCMag as an intern more than a decade ago, I’m back as one of its editors, ...