Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

It’s been four years since Alienware released a notebook with the Alienware M11x, although the company has certainly been going strong with its releases of gaming laptops. After a rather long hiatus, ...

Alienware announced its new Alienware 13 gaming notebook not too long ago, but has just taken the wraps off of its new "graphics amplifier". Alienware's new contraption is capable of taking a high-end ...

The star of the show is Alienware's Graphics Amplifier, a dedicated box that houses a 460W Dell-made power supply (385W on the 12V rail), a full PCIe x16 slot with two rear slots, a USB 3.0 hub and ...

Alienware has this week launched an innovative solution to enhance the graphics performance of your Alienware laptop system. The newly unveiled Alienware Graphics Amplifier is now available for ...

The dream for many PC gamers has always been to have a portable machine that can also handle the latest graphics-intensive releases, and Alienware has come up with a solution that moves that dream ...

Every PC gaming aficionado knows that no matter how high the price tag, a notebook will never quite be able to match a desktop computer when it comes to raw power. Alienware’s Graphics Amplifier ...

One of the painful realities of buying a gaming laptop is that no matter how close to the bleeding edge you get, its graphics processor will be practically obsolete in a year or two. That’s great for ...

Let me be clear from the start—external graphics solutions for notebooks have been tried before and they’re a low-volume product for an already niche market. But what Alienware has done with their ...

Alienware’s Graphics Amplifier has been described as the Holy Grail of mobile gaming. I think that’s going too far. The Holy Grail of laptop gaming would be the ability to upgrade your laptop graphics ...

The Alienware 13 laptop -- announced this morning -- will go down in history as the first ever laptop allowed into the vaulted, blustery, and mythical halls of True PC Gaming. While the laptop itself ...

Alienware’s Graphics Amplifier breaks new ground by opening laptops to desktop-class graphics, but you’ll have to be a serious gamer to justify the bulk and expense of the transplant. One of the ...