There's a small but growing army of gaming monitors that wield dual refresh rate options for players who can't decide between a fast 4K panel for gorgeous visuals, or an even faster 1080p display for competitive gaming at a lower resolution. Dual-mode models offer the best of both worlds in a single package. Most...Read more...
We've long appreciated the design language of Dell's XPS laptops, and now for the first time, the company is offering one in Copilot+ trim with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor inside. It's one of a handful of Copilot+ laptops Dell is rolling out, the others being the Inspiron 14 Plus, Inspiron 14, Latitude...Read more...
We have a presence at Computex this year (everyone wave 'Hi' to President and Editor-in-Chief Dave Altavilla), and so we're getting to see the first wave of Copilot+ laptops in person. To say they're gorgeous would be an understatement. These are all premium, high profile models from each brand's thin and light...Read more...
Dell has some awesome deals available for the Memorial Day Weekend on both desktops and laptops. The deals span from a beastly Alienware Aurora R15 gaming desktop, to a more budget friendly XPS desktop.
Alienware Aurora R15 Gaming Desktop
The Alienware Aurora R15 gaming desktop comes packed to the gills. From an...Read more...
A new era of computing on Windows is getting under way with the launch of Microsoft's Copilot+ initiative, starting with a whole bunch of laptop designs built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus platforms. Based on Arm, these laptops promise extended battery life compared to most x86 machines...Read more...
It has been a little while since our last major data breach, with the latest being back on April Fools' with AT&T having the information of 73 million accounts appear on the dark web. However, hackers never rest so it was simply a matter of time before another breach would happen, this time with Dell. A threat actor...Read more...
Dell XPS 14 Laptop: Starts at $1499, $1599 as configured Dell has continued to refine the sleek look of the XPS family, now offering a 14-inch XPS 14 variant for what we'd call the Goldilocks size of thin and light laptops. This machine's industrial design is quite fetching too. Refined, Clean Design Solid, Balanced Performance Quality...Read more...
Dell XPS 16 (2024): Starting @ $1,699, $3,399 As Tested The Dell XPS 16 is a premium laptop with a polarizing design that is well suited to many uses cases, but its price point could give some consumers pause. Gorgeous But Polarizing Design Large, Stunning OLED Panel Solid Battery Life Discrete GPU Delivers Gaming And...Read more...
Dell Precision 7875 Tower Workstation: As Configured - $31,065 at Dell.com Dell's Precision 7875 Tower Workstation is a regular-sized PC that packs in server-class power, giving it the capability to dunk on previous-genn systems in rendering, scientific computing, and of course, machine learning workloads. Incredible...Read more...
NVIDIA's been sitting pretty with its Ada Lovelace GPUs for consumers and professionals, while the HPC market is served by its upgraded H200, which is a fully-enabled Hopper GPU paired with super-fast HBM3e memory giving it some 5TB/second of memory bandwidth. Few parts of the technology industry sit still for long...Read more...
Dell Precision 7960 And 5860 Workstations: As Configured - $19,972 and $9,988 Respectively Dell Precision 7960 and 5860 workstations bring professional Xeon W and NVIDIA RTX firepower to chew through complex engineering and creative workloads Flagship Intel Xeon W 3400 And 2400 Series CPUs Support Quad-GPU And...Read more...
AI is showing up in tech all over the place, including Dell’s recently announced AI-driven Pro Wireless ANC 5000 series headsets, which promise long battery life to get you through the work week. Along with the 3000 series, Dell says its headsets aim to deliver “audio, on another level.”
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has now come to a close, and as the HotHardware team make its way back home, it's time to reflect. This year we saw a plethora of new tech, from artificial intelligence applications to laptops, desktops, and displays, amidst so much more. Truthfully, it's hard to catch...Read more...
We've long been enamored with the overall design language of Dell's premium XPS laptops, which are generally understated with super-clean lines, and highly capable systems with powerful hardware options. Going forward, Dell is unifying the design that it introduced with its XPS 13 Plus that we reviewed last year, and...Read more...
Dell's "Ultrasharp" is not a brand that needs introduction. Dell has been doing its display thing for a very long time now, and Ultrasharp has been associated with high-quality displays for many years. While not every Ultrasharp display has featured top-of-the-line technology, these upcoming models certainly fit the...Read more...
The holiday shopping season is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean shoppers will get the gaming laptop they wished for under the Christmas tree. Whether someone is on a budget, or received a bunch of Amazon gift cards to put toward the purchase of their dream gaming laptop, here are 10 of the best we could find to choose from below.
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Remember that Alienware M18 R1 laptop that we made some fuss about awhile back? We reviewed the original NVIDIA-powered version, but there's a new AMD Advantage model that uniquely comes with a mobile variant of Navi 31 called the Radeon RX 7900M. Sadly, reviewers and early adopters have complained of black screens...Read more...
Dell Inspiron 16 Plus (7630) Notebook (Starts at $999, as tested $1,249) The affordably-priced Dell Inspiron 16 Plus offers plenty of productivity and gaming performance, and doesn't sacrifice on battery life. Solid productivity performance Good gaming performance Big, fast display with wide viewing angles Excellent...Read more...
If you're a frequent visitor of our site, then you may have caught our all-out PC build guide for playing Alan Wake 2 at max settings. One thing we didn't touch on, however, is the display—we kept the focus on the game's bone-crunching hardware requirements, particularly at the high end. It's an expensive build for...Read more...
Laptop aficionados and HotHardware devotees will both recall when we reviewed the Alienware m18 R1 earlier this year. That machine was gorgeous inside and out, with the latest Core i9 processor and GeForce RTX 4090 graphics wrapped up in a slick "Metallic Moon" aluminum chassis. We had little to complain about with...Read more...
Alienware Aurora R16 Gaming Desktop PC (Starts at $1,299, as tested $1,949) Alienware's latest Aurora R16 desktop has a new look, the latest PC gaming technology, and cooling that's both quiet and efficient. Good performance for the price Very quiet under load Plenty of external connectivity High-performance...Read more...
The weekend is wrapping up but not before we've had a chance to round up a bunch more deals (on top of the Samsung TV deals we posted yesterday), including dynamite deals on Galaxy Buds and laptops from the likes of ASUS, Dell, and others. We'll kick things off with the Dell Inspiron 16 5635 laptop pictured above...Read more...