Dell won’t be shipping some Alienware PCs to six US states due to regulations on power draw.
Some Alienware gaming PCs are so powerful that six US states won’t let you buy them due to their excessive power consumption. Dell has announced that it is no longer shipping some of its popular gaming PCs after California and five other US states introduced restrictions on the amount of energy a personal computer could draw, as measured in kWh per year. On the US Dell website, a prominent message on some configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and Aurora R12 desktop PCs reads: « This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled. » The issue is California and similar American states passing power consumption regulations on computer systems.
