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Prebuilt gaming desktops usually make you pay extra for the convenience. This one is interesting because the discount lines up with what the market is doing right now. The Alienware Aurora ACT1250 is ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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Today's Alienware laptops are a little more grown-up than back in the day. They've left the lime-green aesthetic from the 2010s where it belongs and instead give consumers the opt ...