Price: £3,799 from fave.co/2uY3Lf8
Alienware’s Area-51m flagship gaming laptop is big, thick, and fast, a return to form that should reassure people who got worried when the company unveiled the thin-and-light Alienware m15 last year. The new Area-51m might be the first gaming laptop to bring the Holy Grail of features to consumers: upgradeable graphics and an upgradeable CPU.
Our review unit is the highest-end SKU, which starts at £3,799. For slightly more modest budgets, the lowest-end model starts at £2,199, which is nothing to sneeze at.
Surprisingly ‘light’ and ‘small’
If we told you the Area-51m was surprisingly light and small, you’d probably think we’d lost our minds. Naked, the Area-51m tipped our scale at 3.87kg. With its two power bricks, it’ll take you to 6.2kg.
Considering what’s inside…
