The latest Alienware Area-51m R2 is essentially a small gaming desktop with a screen and keyboard attached. The monster gaming laptop is getting its first refresh since the first Area-51m arrived last ...

The Quest for the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features—upgradable internal graphics—ended in a horrible, ignominious death on Wednesday, with the release of Alienware’s Area-51m R2. And by death, we ...

Alienware has announced the second generation of its flagship Area-51m gaming laptop, the Area-51m R2. It’s largely similar on the outside to the original Area-51m, but the specs are almost completely ...

Alienware is without a doubt one of the most easily recognizable gaming computer brands in the world. It has been a household name in PC gaming for as long as I’ve been a PC gamer (over 20 years), and ...

We've already brought you news concerning new members to Dell's XPS family, but there's also a lot of movement going on over at the company's Alienware gaming division. Alienware has announced ...

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Dell demonstrated an astonishing amount of chutzpah today when it unveiled a second-generation Alienware Area-51m -- and declared that whoops, the first-generation of the "upgradeable" laptop isn't ...

The Alienware Area-51m is a flagship gaming laptop that breaks a lot of new ground. When it debuted at CES we already were intrigued by the desktop-class parts and highly upgradable design. Now that ...

Laptops promise the freedom to take your computing with you but the price you have to pay is in performance. There are powerful laptops, of course, but you are mostly stuck with what you bought, save ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been disappointed by gaming laptops—I avoided them myself and advised friends to do the same, given the lower performance levels they offered versus desktop PCs.

The Area-51M is a unique beast. At first glance, it looks like what we used to expect from gaming laptops: It's an intimidating, hulking machine that doesn't belong in the modern age of slim notebooks ...