The Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop with RTX 5090, Core Ultra 9, 64GB RAM is on sale right now for $6,349.99, which is $850 off the regular price. This is not a budget tower by any stretch, but if ...

Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop with RTX 5090, 64GB RAM is marked down to $4,349.99 right now, which is an $800 drop from the regular price. If you have been pricing out top-end gaming laptops, you ...

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Inside the Alienware 16 Aurora Laptop, the Intel Core i7 processor, along with 16 GB of DDR5 RAM, lets you run a game while keeping a browser, music player, and chat open without the laptop slowing to ...

Western Digital is completely sold out of hard drive production capacity through 2026 due to massive demand from AI data centers. PCWorld reports that hard drive prices have surged nearly 50% in just ...

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Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year.

Really? Hard drives?

Key HDD suppliers WD and Seagate have both allocated their entire 2026 production output for sale, likely worsening PC component shortages and price rises.

The HDD supply crunch isn't driven solely by AI data centers. China's government-backed PC replacement program has also been a major demand driver.

PCWorld reports that WD expects to deliver an 800% speed increase for hard drives, with sequential transfer speeds potentially reaching over 2GBps within a decade. These improvements target AI’s ...