At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Alienware 17 is one of the best gaming laptops money can buy. Great performance is really a given with an Alienware box, but what really impresses is its smart use of large, quiet, low-rpm fans. It can work hard without showing it is doing so on the outside. The lingering concern is one around price, another Alienware staple. While the Alienware 17’s base specs appear at first competitive, by leaving out the expensive but likely popular 16GB RAM and SSD upgrades, most people’s desired configs are still going to end up rather pricey....

Alienware is one of the leading manufacturers of gaming hardware, but we haven’t seen anything like this before. The Dell-owned brand just launched the X-Series, a brand-new category of laptops designed to deliver the ultimate gaming laptop experience, free of compromises. As you might expect, these devices won’t come cheap. Currently, the most budget-friendly route into the X-Series is the new Alienware X15, which starts at a hefty US$1,999.99. You’ll pay at least $100 more for the larger Alienware X17, although both have plenty in common....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Pros Clear, borderless screen Improved exercise tracking Great battery longevity Cons App needs improvement Silicone strap feels cheap SpO2 readings don’t always work Our Verdict The Amazfit GTR 2 has a refined design and good tracking abilities – but the accompanying app is still lagging behind rivals. Best Prices Today: Amazfit GTR 2 Amazfit is a branch of Chinese wearables brand Huami. Whether or not you’ve heard of these brands isn’t important....

The new entry-level 2-Series comes in 32- and 40in screen sizes, with the smaller one costing £249.99. That has a 720p resolution, with the 40in offering a 1080p (Full HD) panel for £299.99. In most other respects, the TVs have the same features as the larger 4-Series including built-in Alexa and supporting HDR10, HLG and Dolby Digital Audio. Jim Martin / Foundry Being a TV, you also get a built-in Freeview Play tuner for watching live TV....

Intel and AMD have been the go-to CPU manufacturers for many years now, but the release of Apple Silicon has complicated matters. Despite being exclusive to Macs, the new M1 chips come with big performance and battery life claims, and early indications suggest it has delivered for the most part. Apple ditched Intel to make its own laptop chips after a 14-year association, but it looks like big rival AMD will be the first to add an ARM-based CPU to its lineup....

With the release of the Radeon RX 6000M Series, AMD has finally brought its RDNA 2 technology to laptops. The RX 6000M Series, comprised of the Radeon RX 6600M, 6700M and 6800M, bring many of the upgrades from the RX 6000 desktop graphics cards to laptops, including better power efficiency, faster performance and, at long last, ray-tracing support. In fact, AMD claims that the mobile GPU range has the potential to outpace Nvidia’s RTX 30 Series for laptops ....

Google has included a spectacular new feature in the new Android 15 to at least mitigate the negative consequences of smartphone theft : An AI-based function that automatically recognises the theft and immediately takes protective measures. Theft Detection Lock Google’s new “Theft Detection Lock” is based on the following principle: “This new feature uses Google AI to recognise if someone snatches your smartphone from your hand and tries to get away with it on foot, by bike or by car....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict If you have a USB-C phone, tablet or laptop then the Anker PowerPort+ 5 USB-C is a great gadget for simultaneously charging all your devices from a single plug socket; if you don’t, there are faster, cheaper desktop chargers with more ports elsewhere in our round-up. Best Prices Today: Anker PowerPort+ 5 USB-C You can charge multiple phones and tablets – even USB-C-connected devices – from a single power outlet with the Anker PowerPort+ 5 USB-C desktop charger....

As promised, TCL has revealed the final details of its new 30 Series of smartphones, after the phones were first announced last month at CES . The full launch comes at the trade show Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is a frequent launch spot for phones – but rarely do we see a new range consisting of eight devices at once – and that’s not even touching on the new Android tablets and foldable concepts the company is also showing off in Barcelona this week....

This has been Marvel’s biggest year ever, with the game-changing Black Panther followed by the first part of the MCU’s mega mash-up finale (at least for now…), Avengers: Infinity War . The final part of that set is Ant-Man and the Wasp, a smaller-scale spectacle that closes out 2018 for Marvel – just leaving us with a long eight months to wait for Captain Marvel to roll around in March 2019....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict When we initially wrote this review, the new size was something of an unknown. For many people the iPhone 6 (or iPhone 6S) is the better choice for the reasons we list in our iPhone 6 vs 6 Plus comparison. The truth is that a 5.5in screen isn’t quite big enough to enable the 6 Plus to replace a tablet, yet the device is arguably too big and unwieldy as a smartphone....

Apple’s iPhone 13 range may not be a major update to the company’s mobile offering, but the phones do offer the latest and greatest that Apple has to offer. But even with the improved industrial design and Ceramic Shield protecting the display, things can go wrong. Traditionally, the only way you’ve been able to get cracked screens or worn out batteries fixed is to go to the Apple Store’s Genius Bar, or head to a third-party repair company....

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Good value Solid feature set Great integration with iPhone Cons No always-on display So-so battery life Our Verdict The second-gen Apple Watch SE does everything you need an Apple Watch to do with none of the extra features that makes other models much more expensive. Best Prices Today: Apple Watch SE (2nd generation, 40mm) The main thing you need to know about the 2022 Apple Watch SE is that for $279/£259/€299, it’s probably all the Apple Watch you need....

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Impressive durability Bright display is easy to use outdoors Great outdoor-focused features Provides the core watchOS experience Cons Chunky on the wrist New straps need some more work Pricey Our Verdict The Apple Watch Ultra is the perfect wearable for those dedicated to outdoor sports like running, hiking and diving, with better durability, longer battery life and dual-band GPS providing more accurate tracking data....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The Aria FX-Viper 8320 is reasonably priced, but you’ll have to factor in the cost of a monitor, keyboard and mouse if you don’t have these already. Performance is measurably lower than most of the competition, but gaming frame rates are fast enough for smooth graphics at high resolutions and quality settings. We would recommend a beefier power supply, however. Best Prices Today: Aria FX-Viper 8320 If you’re in search of a bargain, look no further than Aria’s FX-Viper 8320....

At a Glance Expert’s Rating Pros Portable design XG Mobile GPU dock Impressive display Cons Expensive Too heavy for standard tablet use Sub-par battery life Our Verdict The Asus ROG Flow Z13 is a genuinely exciting product in a largely stale market, offering a 2-in-1 form factor with gaming laptop-level specs and great performance to boot – it’s just too expensive for the majority of Consumers, especially when paired with the XG Mobile dock....

Battlefield V is official, and it’s set to be the biggest Battlefield title to date. The hugely popular first-person shooter has gone from strength to strength in recent years with titles like Battlefield 1 while competitors like Call of Duty struggle to entice players back, and it’s set to be a similar story in 2018. We now know much more about Battlefield V and what to expect from the upcoming shooter following the release of a new trailer that showcases new mechanics and the first details about the upcoming Battle Royale mode, Firestorm....

The disinfecting cabinet, which costs £199, is designed to be set on a hallway table. The appliance (pictured below) looks a lot like a microwave, but instead of microwaves, it uses UV-C rays to sanitise items placed inside. When you come home, you stick whatever you’ve brought in from the great outdoors into the cabinet and the rays will get to work. The cabinet will clean your keys, phone and wallet, kids’ toys, food packaging and more....

Bel-Air suffers from a common reboot problem: the original is just too good to live up to. The gritty reimagination of the nineties Will Smith sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is due to debut on Super Bowl Sunday on Peacock in the US, and on Sky/ Now in the UK. Since the original announcement, there’s been a mixed reaction to the new series. Having now seen the first few episodes (and as a fan of the original series), I can understand the concerns....

Not everyone is prepared to spend hundreds on a drone from DJI or one of its rivals. And these days you have to register everything except for the lightweight DJI Mavic Mini . Compared to those expensive drones which can cost hundreds of pounds, cheap ones tend not to have auto-hover, no automatic flying and only basic stabilisation from an on-board gyroscope. This means they’re harder to fly, but there are exceptions, such as the Ryze Tello ....