A cheaper Alienware gaming laptop sounds great—until you look at what was cut to get there.

The laptop starts at $1,300 configured with a six-core AMD Ryzen 5 220 CPU, a single lane of 16GB of DDR5 5600MT/s ...

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Alienware’s new Arrow Lake-HX gaming laptops are finally on sale, bringing anti-glare OLED back to the lineup and pushing deeper into premium territory. Alienware has launched refreshed gaming laptops ...

Alienware has shared more information about its upcoming gaming laptops, the Alienware 16X Aurora and Area-51, at the ongoing CES 2026 event. Both laptops have OLED screens, Intel Core Ultra 200HX ...

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Alienware never sat on the budget end of gaming laptops, but $1,299 is a LOT for one that starts with an RTX 4050.

Summary: Alienware has announced the launch of its new Area-51 gaming laptops, coming in 16-inch and 18-inch sizes, powered by Intel’s latest Core Ultra 9 CPU and the RTX 5080 GPU. The laptops boast a ...