Dell Alienware 13 Is the Company’s Thinnest and Lightest Yet, Arrives in November

Dell Alienware lineup is dedicated to producing laptop and desktop computers aimed at gamers with a focus on hardware and performance, rather than style. But since the gaming market has been pushing towards slimmer and lighter gaming notebooks, Dell is seemingly forced to take into consideration this scenario itself. The company has ignored the slimmer form factors until now and has chosen to discontinue its smallest gaming laptop, the Alienware M11x more than two years ago. However, the company will soon jump back in the saddle of the sleek and slim, with the Alienware 13 which is a tight laptop coming at 4.5 lbs / 2.04 and equipped with NVIDIA graphics (as seen at Engadget). The machine will be ready to be pushed out starting this...

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ASUS ROG Crossblade Ranger FM2+ Motherboard

The Republic of Gamers brand is one that ASUS applies to only its best motherboards, peripherals, monitors, PCs, and PC accessories. Never before, however, has an FM2+ motherboard carried the brand. Part of it is owed to the fact that the FM2+ socket is pretty young and was preceded by the normal FM2, which was around for quite a while. The other part was because ASUS just hadn't gotten around to making a truly overkill AMD-based platform, as AMD's hardware in general is not as geared towards overkill as Intel's anymore. Still, it's perfectly possible to build a strong gaming PCs around an AMD APU, so Gigabyte made it easy to do just that. Case in point, the new ROG Crossblade Ranger has SupremeFX audio with exclusive Sonic SenseAmp...

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HTC Nexus 8 to Come with NFC, Android L, in LTE Flavor Too

Earlier today, I told you the widely anticipated HTC Nexus 8 might have just been granted certification in South Korea. Even as the filing didn't reveal any information about the tablet per-se. A few hours later, a Twitter account which goes by the name @UpLeaks and entitles itself a “Chinese phone leaker” has posted a bunch of new info about the upcoming tablet. According to them, the HTC Nexus 9 can also be referred to as the HTC T1 (HCT also has the T7 and T12 in the works) and will come equipped with a 64-bit Tegra K1 processor. This part we already knew, but the leak also provides us with some additional info. For example, there will be an LTE version (which will take advantage of an MDM9x25 modem), 4GB of RAM, NFC and GPS....

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