During our time with the Alienware Area-51 R5, we came to realize that some of our benchmarks just weren’t challenging enough to truly put the machine’s 18-core processor to the test. So, we devised a ...

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You're about to buy your first Alienware gaming laptop. This is awesome news because the latest Alienware 16 Area-51 and Alienware 18 Area-51 models unapologetically deliver desktop levels of extreme ...