Alienware 16″ Area-51 Gaming Laptop with Core Ultra 9, 32GB RAM, and RTX 5080 is on sale for $3,279.99, and this build is the kind you get when you want your main rig to be a laptop, not just a backup ...

Alienware 16″ Area-51 Gaming Laptop with Core Ultra 9, 32GB RAM, and RTX 5080 is on sale for $3,699.99, and this build is aimed at you if you want a high end gaming laptop that you do not have to ...

Otherworldly looks meet blazing performance. The Alienware 16 Area-51 is more a desktop replacement than a go-anywhere gaming laptop, but one with real character and a great keyboard. The Area 51 name ...

Alienware has been around for 30 years, if you can believe it. And to celebrate its anniversary for CES 2025, the company has announced a gargantuan Area-51 desktop, along with two monster Area-51 ...

Even if it's silver or blue on the outside, to most folks, a laptop PC looks like an impenetrable black box on the inside—you wouldn't dream of cracking it open. Some notebooks, indeed, do their best ...

If you want the best gaming on the go, be prepared to drop a bundle. Alienware has long been one of the premier gaming PC makers, even after being picked up by Dell, but their Area-51m line is ...

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Whether it’s playing Candy Crush to pass the time or dedicating hours on end to build the perfect fortress in Minecraft, playing video games is a pastime that most people enjoy. And, having stayed ...

More specifically, it measures 1.49 by 15.6 by 11.5 inches (HWD), bigger than almost anything we've seen come through for review that doesn't have a desktop-class CPU inside. There are, though, a ...

Dell’s XPS 15 (version 7590) is a test of just how much hardware you can jam into a 4.2-pound laptop. This latest iteration includes up to an 8-core “overclockable” Core i9-9980HK and a discrete ...

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The laptop market has undergone major changes in the past few years, and there's likely to be more confusion in the notebook aisle now than at any other time. Today's models encompass everything from ...