Gaming is something we take seriously around here, so when I saw the Alienware 16X Aurora on sale for $1,499.99 at Dell.com ...

Shiny and Pricey.

The Alienware 16 Aurora is a budget-focused 16-inch gaming laptop. At $1,499, however, the price is just too high: This machine makes many compromises, from the CPU to the display and the surprising ...

Alienware may have lobotomised its out-of-this-world design philosophy for the Aurora R16, making for a dull looking machine, but it's nailed the mix of performance, thermals, and acoustics which ...

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Alienware’s 16X Aurora and Area-51 laptops won a Best of CES 2026 Award for adding beautiful OLED displays to the line. These computers have Intel Core Ultra 200HX chips and up to RTX 5090 graphics.

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What it is Dell is taking $270 off the Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop, a 16-inch WQXGA system built around an Intel Core 7 240H processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 6GB, with 16GB ... Read more ...

Solid gaming performance. Really bright, 240-Hz display. Convenient ports in the back. Responsive touchpad. Battery life is decent. Keyboard and palm rests get warm. Cheaper gaming laptops perform ...