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Alienware’s Newest Gaming Monitor is the 4K 27-Inch AW2725Q With 240 Hz Refresh Rate

Joelle Daniels — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:32:36 +0000

Dell has unveiled its latest gaming monitor under the Alienware banner. Dubbed the AW2725Q, the new display features a 27-inch 4K panel with a refresh rate of 240 Hz. Interestingly, the smaller size of the display paired with its high resolution makes the AW2725Q one of the densest QD-OLED monitors out there, with 166 pixels per inch.

On the I/O side, the AW2725Q features an HDMI 2.1 port, an HDMI 2.0 port, a DisplayPort 1.4 port, a 3.5mm audio output jack, 3 USB-A ports and a USB-C port. The screen also features 10-bit colour depth, as well as compatibility with both AMD’s FreeSync and Nvidia’s G-Sync technologies.

Other features in the monitor include AI-based technology that will attempt to prevent objects from burning into the display alongside a graphite sheet between the layers of the display panel.

Interestingly, the AW2725Q’s design is more subdued than what the Alienware line-up is typically known for. The new monitor will look sleeker on a table, especially compared to other Alienware monitors and even desktop and laptop systems.

The Alienware AW2725Q is slated to hit stores in March 2025 and will be priced at $900.

Windows 10 VR Headsets Coming From Acer, Lenovo, More Next Year; Will Cost As Low As $299

Pramath — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:41:40 +0000

The VR space is about to get a whole lot ore crowded. Currently, there are only three VR headsets worth anything in the market- the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, and the PlayStation VR. Of these, the former two are extremely expensive (they cost $599 and $799 respectively), and require extremely high end gaming PCs to even work properly.

But starting next year, true, mainstream accessible high end VR may be coming. At their Surface keynote yesterday, Microsoft confirmed that third party partners like Acer, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and Asus would be launching next year. According to Microsoft, these headsets will also feature inside-out tracking, a technical term for being able to track movement in space without desk- or wall-mounted sensors- which is something that no other headset on the market currently has (the Vive, for instance, requires you to set up the Lighthouse, while the PlayStation VR depends on the PlayStation Camera).

Equally importantly, it also sounds like these headsets may be self sufficient. It seems like you’d be able to just wear these sets and not have to set anything else up, unlike on any existing VR headset. And the killer? These sets could start out for as low as $299. That means that more than even the PlayStation VR, these headsets could induce mass market adoption of VR.

Microsoft in Talks To Make $2 Billion Investment in Dell

Ravi Sinha — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:40:52 +0000

Stand tall for the beast of Bill Gates. If people aren’t preferring Windows 8 over its predecessors, then simply up the number of machines in the market. Or at least that’s what Microsoft has in mind when it makes a $2 billion investment in PC manufacturer Dell.

According to the Wall Street Journal, this deal would be part of an attempt by Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, to purchase Dell from public share-holders. The estimated deal would be around $22 billion, of which Microsoft will invest $2 billion.

The reason for the investment comes from Microsoft’s “expressed disappointment” in machines that currently use its software – which is friggin’ hilarious, since we’ve seen just about every kind of Windows 8 machine possible in today’s day and age. And some of them are even pretty awesome.

But Microsoft feels that such a strategy will give them a stronger role over dictating what hardware their OS will run on – think Nokia’s Lumia and Microsoft’s own Surface tablet. Whether it benefits them in the long run will remain to be seen.

Source: GIBiz