dell

If you missed out on everything Microsoft announced before and during its big Build developer conference, let me catch you up. There are AI agents, new AI models, AI real-time translations, AI transcriptions, and–best of all–all new Copilot+ computers that are supposed to make these AI tasks available on-device. It’s…

Microsoft smells blood in the water, and it seems to be exclusively gunning for Apple’s latest ultra-thin laptops and iPads with devices sporting all-day batteries and ARM-base

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

One thing has been ridiculously clear in my 15-plus-year career reviewing consumer tech. I’m a size queen when it comes to laptops, particularly gaming laptops. I was bereft when Dell put the original Alienware 18 out to pasture and spent a number of years requesting its return.

I can’t start talking about Alienware’s redesigned m16 gaming laptop, the R2, without first telling you straight up why I like this laptop as much as I do. I don’t like it because of its performance, even if it’s fairly good for its mid-range price point.

Sure, Apple may already have its M3 chip, one it dropped a little more than a year after the M2 saw the light of day.