And if that wasn’t enough, Alienware has teamed with Tobii to bring its eye-tracking technology into the mix for a seamless new way to interact with your laptop. However, short battery life keeps the Alienware 15 from Editor’s Choice status. Design Say hello to the sleeker, more sophisticated Alienware 15. Like its smaller brethren, the Alienware 13, the 15 has undergone a major design revamp that removes all the lighting from the Epic Silver anodized aluminum lid, save for the trademark alien’s head in the center....

Alienware m15 OLED pricing and availability I had fun testing the $2,779 iteration of the Alienware m15. It has a 2.2-GHz Intel Core i7-8750H processor with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q GPU with 8GB of VRAM, an Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU and that show-stopping 4K, OLED display. The $1,299 base model offers a 2.3-GHz Intel Core i5-8300H CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 1TB (+8GB SSHD) Hybrid drive, a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU with 6GB of VRAM, an Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU and a FHD panel....

Alienware continues to raise the bar of what a gaming laptop can and should be. The latest addition to the family is the X17, a beautiful bruiser of a desktop replacement that’s only 0.8-inches thick. The ultra-premium system comes with all the fixings including an Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU and dual SSDs. Need more? How’s a 17.3-inch, 4K display, powerful speakers and a Cherry MX keyboard sound?...

The new support document (opens in new tab), posted late yesterday (Jan. 4), features Apple’s most extensive comments to date on new iPad Pros that came out of their box with a noticeable bend. Last month, some iPad Pro owners reported that their new tablets had a slight though visibly curved chassis – something Apple later confirmed in a few brief public statements on the issue. At the time, Apple said the bend resulted from a cooling process involving the iPad’s metal and plastic parts, and that tablet met Apple’s standards for design and manufacturing....

Best wireless headphones in 2021The best headphone deals in June 2021Apple AirPods Pro 2: Price, release date, features, and more Unfortunately, all of Apple’s wireless headphone devices do not support lossless audio. The tech giant’s AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, and Beats headphones use an AAC Bluetooth Codec, as Bluetooth connections don’t use lossless streaming. How to switch on Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio How to switch on Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio...

The ever-vigilant Apple observer, Mark Gurman, has revealed in a recent Bloomberg article that his sources point to September 7 as the date for the iPhone 14 launch event. That aligns perfectly with what we’ve been saying for months since the iPhone has only fallen outside of the September 7-12 window once in the last several years and that was due to Covid-19-related delays in 2020. Apple is on track again this year and as you know if you’ve been following along with our iPhone 14 coverage, there may be quite a few changes for this year’s iPhone lineup....

Full of confidence, I contacted Acer who graciously lent me the Aspire E 15 (our current best laptop under $500) to test my hypothesis that a budget laptop can accommodate the majority of our readers’ needs, whether those be at the office, at home or while traveling. However, by the end of my 30-day plight, that optimism was replaced with the realization that budget laptops still have some serious limitations. Misplaced optimism “Do you really want to do this to yourself?...