The most powerful Alienware desktop ever built with AMD processors is now available. The Alienware Area 51 can now be bought with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processors. The new AMD Ryzen 9 CPU has: 16 cores ‘Zen5’ Architecture, 32 threads, 192Mb of L3 cache, 4.3 GHz base speed, 208 MB Cache (L2+L3), up to 5.6 GHz Max Boost clock speed, and 200W TDP. It’s a drop-in upgrade for Socket AM5 and includes onboard Radeon Graphics as well as AMD’s new dual 3D …
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Panasonic just announced their latest Toughbook rugged industrial strength modular laptop computer for demanding outdoor workloads; the Toughbook 56. This actually marks the 30 year anniversary of the Toughbook brand which began in 1996. The Toughbook 56 continues the tradition of laptop computers designed specifically for heavy duty outdoor and mobile workplaces, but brings some nice improvements like the latest Intel processors, an 8Gb dedicated GPU option, improved modular options, and more, while still maintaining …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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