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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 ...

Alienware's m15 and m17 will be the first gaming laptops available with the new mechanical keyboard as an option. Joshua Goldman Managing Editor / Advice Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop ...

Most old PC technology is gone and forgotten when the next innovation hits -- except, perhaps, for retro nostalgia's sake -- but that's not the case when it comes to the mechanical keyboard. The ...

Generally speaking, mechanical keyboards are usually only the domain of desktop PC gamers. While they're more of a rarity on gaming laptops, Alienware is doing what it can to change that, today ...

For a few weeks over the holiday and New Year period I had the opportunity of spending a fair bit of hands on time with Alienware's mobile gaming apotheosis - the 17-inch M17. Does the M17 live up to ...

The latest entry in Alienware's M series of full-size high-end gaming laptops, the m17 R5 (starts at $1,599.99; $2,649.99 as tested) pushes the power envelope with an under-the-hood update to the m17 ...