Alienware's m15 and m17 will be the first gaming laptops available with the new mechanical keyboard as an option. Joshua Goldman Managing Editor / Advice Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop ...

Cherry MX mechanical switches are famous in PC gaming land, but they’ve never made their way to a gaming laptop. That changes today with the Alienware m15 and m17 R4, the first laptops to feature the ...

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Mechanical keyboards in laptops aren’t exactly new, but none have yet to feature switches from CHERRY MX, arguably the industry leader. Until now. Alienware has announced that its m15 and m17 R4 ...

What just happened? Mechanical keyboards may be the preferred choice for most PC gamers, but their chunkiness mean they rarely appear in laptops. Thanks to Alienware's new collaboration with Cherry MX ...

Mechanical keyboards have practically been the Holy Grail for gaming laptops. We've seen PC makers like Razer and MSI give them a shot, only to dump the concept entirely. So when Alienware decided it ...

Most old PC technology is gone and forgotten when the next innovation hits -- except, perhaps, for retro nostalgia's sake -- but that's not the case when it comes to the mechanical keyboard. The ...

Mechanical keyboards are popular with gamers because they provide tactile feedback and tend be faster than other types of keyboards. So it’s no surprise that most desktop keyboards designed for gamers ...

Alienware has taken two of its peripherals, the Alienware AW420K mechanical keyboard and AW720M gaming mouse, and faithfully re-created them both at 14 times their original size. And with that, you've ...

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In the competitive world of PC gaming, where split-second decisions and lightning-fast reactions separate victory from defeat, every component of your setup matters. While a high-end graphics card and ...