Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he ...

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Not content with settling for meeting the industry’s best ...

Alienware's m15 and m17 designs are proven hits, combining sleek style with top-end power, but the X Series emphasizes portability. The x17 (and x15, which we'll be reviewing soon) features similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To simply call the Alienware x17 R2 a gaming laptop just doesn’t seem to do it justice. The more satisfactory term for this beast ...

These redesigns of Alienware's flagship laptops squeeze GeForce RTX 30-Series graphics and new "Tiger Lake-H" power-user CPUs into thin chassis. I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years, ...

Page 2: Alienware x17 R2: A Benchmark Beast With Battery Life Brutality Page 3: Alienware x17 R2: Relatively Tame Thermals, Acoustics, And Our Closing Thoughts For those of you who find joy in larger ...