TL;DR: Alienware has reintroduced its Area-51 in desktop and gaming laptop forms, featuring Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K processor and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 GPU. The 80L tower supports over 600W ...

Alienware has just released what may be two of the best gaming laptops, the m17 R5 and x17 R2. Both are filled to the brim with cutting edge features and the kind of specs you'd expect from a premium ...

US PC-maker Dell has added the Alienware m17 and x17 models to its lineup of gaming laptops. The models are enhanced versions of the Alienware m17 R5 and x17 R2 laptops. They have 17-inch screens with ...

At CES 2022, Alienware gave us a glimpse of its 2022 lineup of 17-inch gaming laptops, among which was the Alienware m17 R5 — a direct successor to the Alienware m17 R4 from 2021. Back then, Alienware ...

Alienware's 17-inch laptops have always offered strong performance. But now thanks to an update that's adding support for up to a Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU and a new 480Hz display, Alienware says the ...

PC display speeds are about to go up. Alienware’s updated m17 R5 and x17 R2, a pair of 17.3-inch gaming laptops, will each include the option for 480 Hz displays—about 33 percent faster than the ...

This powerful AMD gaming laptop boasts some really impressive gaming performance at 1080p, but falters at 4K and in ray-traced games. The CPU performance is also well behind some similarly priced ...

At CES 2022, Dell has announced a unique update to the Alienware m17, bringing out an all-AMD configuration. Despite AMD’s successes in the gaming laptop world, the amount of all-AMD laptops is still ...

AMD fans looking for an Alienware laptop that flies the flag will finally get their wish with Alienware’s new m17 R5 Ryzen Edition, which kicks not just Intel to the curb, but Nvidia too. The ...

The m17 R5 Ryzen Edition is one of the first AMD Advantage laptops and will be the first to ship incorporating AMD's Smart Access Graphics. I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing ...

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. One of Alienware’s coolest CES 2022 announcements is the ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...