Dell has revived Alienware Area-51 with a flagship desktop featuring AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, RTX 5090 graphics, up to 64GB DDR5 and 12TB SSD storage, built for enthusiasts who want maximum performance,

As announced at CES 2026 (and revealed in a pre-briefing event held in New York), the panels feature a response time of 0.2 milliseconds, 15 times faster than before (3ms), WQXGA resolution (2,560 x 1,600), a 240Hz refresh rate, a peak brightness of 620 nits, and an anti-glare coating that reduces gloss by 32 percent.

While this is nothing more than a guess, I'm pretty sure that the average Alienware buyer isn't interested in a gaming laptop that's discreet, understated, or like any other model they could buy. They want that alien logo glowing away, promising unearthly ...

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Look, I’ve tested more laptops than I care to count, but the Alienware 18 Area-51 isn’t just another gaming laptop—it’s basically a desktop that someone convinced to be portable (and I use that term very loosely). After spending weeks with this ...

There was a period of time when gaming laptops were defined by their weirdness. They were bulky, hot, loud, and looked more like a prototype than a retail unit, but dammit; gaming laptops were trying things. Some of that has been lost in the Macbook ...

The Alienware Area-51 18 is designed to excel in gaming and resource-intensive tasks. Powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9275HX processor and NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU with 24GB of VRAM, it ensures seamless gameplay even at ultra settings for resolutions up to 1600p.

The Alienware Area-51 (AAT2250) is quite something. Its monstrous size and weight may make it a lot to deal with, but it also moves away from some of the chaotic proprietary componentry that made earlier Alienware products harder to recommend. Once you get ...

The Area-51 uses the X870E motherboard and can be configured with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D or the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Both processors include AMD’s 3D V-cache technology, which improves access to game data and boosts performance in titles that depend on high ...