16X Aurora

It is TRULY obnoxious. Even more obnoxious: I have 2 Dell laptops, an XPS 15 9530 for work and an Alienware Aurora 16x for gaming. I bought a third-party barrell charger for the Aleinware that's rated at the same 280 W as the OEM charger, but because it's not a Dell OEM charger it limits power deliv

I ended up buying another Alienware because I missed the initial box opening experience. I had much more expensive laptop back in 2017, (Alienware 17 R4) it was around $2500 dollars. But seeing your post brings back the ptsd .My mind decided to hide issues about the key caps, laptop randomly freezin

The machine you have is irrelevant. SupportAssist is a steaming pile of horse manure and absolutely shouldn't be included on any Alienware machines. It causes more problems than it solves, consumes resources unnecessarily, collects system telemetry to send back to Dell, and acts as a remote access e

Same for me. Alienware Aurora 16X AC16251 received as gift on December 2025. Suddenly the Aurora effect stopped working properly, no more transitions but only jumps from color to color. After following the instructions from Dell support (simply reinstalling AWCC and after a complete reinstall of the

It is great option actually due to its battery’s life, It actually can stay up to 10 hours which is one of the best but one huge flaw of this one is screen, screen is just really bad and ghosting, some people might care some people might not but I personally do, so It’s up to you, you could’ve get 1

Today is Nov 25, 2025. After a firmware upgrade from dnf update last evening, my bluetooth support died. I have an Alienware 16X Aurora AC16251. After much frustration in trying to determine why systemd-udevd was extremely unhappy and blueman-manager had no idea what I wanted, eventually googling to

Do you think the fan noise on this laptop is loud? And have they improved how fast the Alienware Control software runs? I watched Jarrod's review of the 16X Aurora and he mentioned that the software runs a lot slower compared to other brands' built-in apps.

I've found 2 things that trigger this over the past few months. I haven't figured out what device this is as it doesn't show in lsusb or anything from what I can tell Linux-Firmware updates have off and on caused whatever this device is to freak out Booting into Windows with fastboot enabled in Wind