Marketed for its "unprecedented upgradeability," the Alienware Area-51m is more of a promise than a final product. While supremely high performance, it lacks the one killer app needed to thrive among ...

The big picture: The Area-51m, designed around the company's new "Legend" industrial design language, is Alienware's latest flagship notebook. It's unique in that it features a user-upgradeable, ...

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.

Alienware’s redesigned powerhouse laptop promises the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features: It’s big, fast, beautiful, and even upgradable, with a desktop CPU and a custom upgradable GPU design.

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If you’ve been looking at the field of gaming laptops for the past couple of years, you’ve probably ...