ALIENWARE 27 240HZ QD-OLED GAMING MONITOR AW2726DM

The Alienware 27 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor brings a great low price for QD-OLED

Alienware’s got a new 27″ QD-OLED gaming monitor for the spring of 2026 and it goes nicely with the Alienware Area-51 gaming desktop tower. The new monitor has a 0.3ms response time 240Hz refresh rate, 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution, along with DCI-P3 99% color gamut coverage and an “infinite contrast ratio”, whatever that means. Ok, infinite contrast ratio means the black pixels are completely black with no backlighting at all thus making for a very high contrast ration between the brightest white and no light at all in the black pixels. The base includes full 360 degree swivel adjustment, -5 to +21 degree tilt adjustment, 90 degree pivot adjustment for vertical or horizontal orientations, and 130mm height adjustment capabilities. There’s also a 3 year OLED burn in warranty to back up their anti-burn-in technology along with an Advanced Exchange Service where Alienware will ship you a replacement if necessary (after remote diagnosis).

And for the big news, the Alienware 27-inch 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor (AW2726DM) will be available at only $349.99 USD. That’s the lowest price point for this type of monitor on the market. It will be available at Alienware.com in North America.

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Dimensions & Weight

Monitor height with stand: 20.60 in. (523.32 mm)
Monitor width: 23.99 in. (609.31 mm)
Monitor height: 13.95 in. (354.30 mm)
Stand width: 8.80 in. (223.44 mm)
Monitor depth: 1.65 in. (41.95 mm)
Stand height: 16.18 in. (410.98 mm)
Stand depth: 9.19 in. (233.40 mm)
Weight with stand and cables: 13.01 lb (5.90 kg)
Weight without stand and cables: 8.60 lb (3.90 kg)

Ports & Cables

Joystick port
Power Connector
2x HDMI (HDCP 1.4 & HDCP 2.3) (Supports up to 2560 x 1440, 120 Hz, HDR, VRR as specified in HDMI 2.1(TMDS))
DisplayPort 1.4 (HDCP 1.4 and HDCP 2.3)
Audio headphone out
Security lock slot (based on Kensington Security Slot )
Included Power Cable & HDMI cable, 1.80m

HP Imagine 2026 shows off new local IQ AI chatbot, Z8 Fury G6i workstation, and EliteBook 6 G2q

This week HP had a big “Imagine” event where executives gave speeches and announced a few new things to check out. We’ve got a new “HP IQ” program that sounds like it will be bundled with new HP computers. This is an on-device artificial intelligence chat bot that sits in the top edge of the screen at all times. We’ve also got a new HP Z8 Fury G6i workstation tower for the super high-end computing power, and a new HP EliteBook 6 G2q which is going to be a nice new laptop to carry around.

The new HP IQ application is a local chatbot, but it also detects nearby devices on the network in order to let you easily transfer files to them in case you never learned about the file transfer protocol or network drive file shares that we’ve been using for 40 years.

The HP EliteBook 6 G2q is a premium ultra-thin ultra-light Qualcomm based laptop with Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Plus processors for fast ARM-based computing and extended battery life. It will be available with the HP Go 5G mobile internet service which will automatically switch between carriers for the best wireless internet coverage.

The new HP Z8 Fury workstation allows for up to four NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max‑Q GPUs along with Intel’s next generation processors. The case is also a bit wider now to allow for larger GPU cards in case someone makes those in the future.

Also see: HP Imagine 2026: HP Enables People’s Best Work in More Places Than Ever Before | HP® Official Site

Dell’s 2026 Pro level & Pro Precision business laptops have more power and less thickness

A bunch of new Dell Pro and Dell Pro Precision laptops have just been announced for release in March through May of 2026. The big news is that the naming schemes are consolidated into something that makes a little more sense. We’ve got the Dell Pro 14 Premium and Dell Pro 5 Micro coming out March 31 of 2026. Then in May we’ve got the Dell Pro 3 in 14/16″ sizes, the Dell Pro 5 in 14/16″ sizes, the Dell Pro 7 in 13/14″ sizes, and the Dell Pro 7 tablet PC convertible in 13/14″ sizes. Also in May, you’ll see the Dell Pro Precision 5 Series and 14S and 16S model sizes.

Now we have simple one-digit numbers to signify the range of Dell Pro laptops.

All of the Dell Pro and Pro Precision laptops are now a bit thinner and a bit more powerful.

The Dell Pro laptops also now use a more modular component structure. The motherboard can easily be reused for all of the different component specification configurations instead of having to make something custom for each model. Plus there’s more room for a larger cooling system now.

Pricing isn’t available yet, but you can check out the Dell website for updates closer to launch.

Intel’s Arc Pro B70/B65 graphics cards and Core Ultra Series 3 step up competition

Today Intel announced their new Arc Pro B70 and B65 graphics processing units aiming to bring some competition to both the gaming PC world as well as the generative AI computing world. An impressive new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 also with Arc Pro GPU built in was announced as well. I got to see a few things these new GPUs are capable of, so let’s check it out.

The 3D graphics software and AI diffusion model image generation capabilities were the things I was most interested in. In the above photo, the middle computer is running Blender and includes an open source noise reduction component made by Intel for preview renders which was very impressive.

On the right computer, Intel had a Comfy-UI installation with a custom front-end that was running the Z-Image Turbo diffusion model for generating images on the fly. It was quite fast, but Z-Image Turbo is already pretty fast, so it was hard to tell exactly how it might compare with more expensive NVIDIA GPUs. The staff said that Comfy-UI and Z-Image Turbo worked right out of the box, but I couldn’t tell if they were using the NVIDIA accelerated version of Comfy-UI or what. Still, it was looking pretty good.

The new GPUs will have up to 32 X cores, 32Gb of VRAM, 4x DisplayPort 2.1, Gen 5 PCIe, 32 ray tracing units, and 367 total TOPS. They’ll show up to 69% higher performance compared to the older Intel Arc Pro B60 GPUs as well.

The new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 mobile processors also have Intel Arc Pro B390 graphics processors built in. That gives you up to 86% faster graphics than the previous generation, up to 12 ray tracing units, and up to 12 X-cores, with up to 4 dsiplays at 6K 60fps. We’re also looking at an up to 95% performance increase over something like the AMD HX Pro 375.

Some other Core Ultra series 3 specs to brag about are in the battery life. You can get up to 27 hours of video streaming or up to 9 hours of Microsoft Teams 3×3 with Windows Studio Effects. That 9 hours of video conferencing sounds pretty amazing from a specifications and battery life perspective, but as a human I certainly wouldn’t want to be stuck in a video call for 9 hours straight.

Still, those kind of battery life numbers on an x86 architecture sure sound like we might not really need ARM processors so much after all.

The Lenovo Legion Go Fold concept looks amazing

I got to try out a prototype of the Lenovo Legion Go Fold being shown at Mobile World Congress 2026 and it’s a pretty gorgeous device. It’s basically a tablet with a folding screen, detachable game console controllers that can clip to the sides, plus a case and keyboard that can turn it into a mini laptop computer.

With the screen folded and the controllers attached to the side, it looks a lot like the other Legion Go devices; a nice portable Windows 11 based gaming console.

However, you can unfold that screen and now you’ve got a big vertical screen. Not many games are programmed for this type of screen aspect ratio, so its utility may be limited in this mode, but the idea is that you’ll be able to snap another window to the top or bottom panel in this configuration and multi-task with perhaps a web page walk through or YouTube video that may help you figure out a certain level in a game. Maybe this could be called “cheater’s mode”?

Then, if you take the controllers off the sides of that configuration, you can rotate the whole unfolded enlarged screen and attach the controllers to the edges of that (with the fold in the middle). This gives you and even larger landscape oriented screen for playing games.

But wait, there’s more! The Legion Go Fold also has a case with a keyboard. You can set the Legion Go Fold (unfolded) on the keyboard with its stand and now you’ve got an awesome little laptop computer to use for whatever Windows 11 programs you want. The detachable side controllers can then attach to a little plastic middle piece that turns them into a regular wireless controller like you’re used to with all of the other gaming consoles.

The casing and cover on the Lenovo Legion Go Fold is gorgeous. It uses the carbon fiber flake finish that we first saw a while back on the Legion 9i top-of-the-line gaming laptop. I love this finish! It looks so good!

There’s also a little circular touch screen on the right controller that can display a clock or other widgets. I’m not sure how useful this could be, but I kind of miss the touchpad that was in that location on previous Legion Go handhelds. Maybe this circular touch screen could be given that kind of trackpad function through the software though.

One issue that’s probably a reason why this is just a concept device at the moment is that the controllers’ attachment mechanism to such a thing folding-screen tablet feels awfully fragile. I’m afraid grabbing this by the controller might break the attachment. Maybe the rails and attachment mechanism could be something stronger like metal in the future in order to make it more sturdy.

From this angle, the Legion Go Fold looks pretty thin and it’s kind of cool how the folded over display reflects light on the table surface below it.

The Legion Go Fold is yet another crazy cool Lenovo concept device and I love seeing things like this!

Lenovo’s Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept brings the Xbox Kinect sensor to a laptop

Lenovo keeps innovating with crazy new concept computing devices that sometimes make it into real production models that you can buy. The Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept is a new one that looks kind of like other Lenovo dual screen folding devices that already exist, but this one brings things to another level.

First of all, one of the screens (the top one) is a 3D display that can show things in 3D without glasses. I’m not sure exactly what the technology is, but it sounds similar to the Immersity 3D display tech. Both screens are also OLED displays with touch sensitivity, and there’s another trick in these displays: There are little plastic shapes that can be placed on the glass of the display and the software will detect the shape and load a tool specific to that physical plastic piece.

But wait, there’s more! The upper display also includes Xbox Kinect style sensors that detect hand movements in 3D space in front of the display. That means you can use three-dimensional air gestures to grab, move, resize, and control 3D objects on the screen.

It reminds me a lot of the old Leap controller from 12 years ago and how awesome that was for controlling the Windows 8 user interface. Unfortunately, modern Windows 11 is no longer designed for innovative 3D gesture controls like that, so with the Lenovo Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept, the gesture controls are going to be limited to only Lenovo’s custom software.

This laptop also has a nice fold out kickstand that will prop it up a bit in order to give a nice angle to the lower display. I also love that there’s an SD card slot for downloading videos and photos from professional camera system.