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 ...

The Area-51M is a unique beast. At first glance, it looks like what we used to expect from gaming laptops: It's an intimidating, hulking machine that doesn't belong in the modern age of slim notebooks ...

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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.

The Quest for the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features—upgradable internal graphics—ended in a horrible, ignominious death on Wednesday, with the release of Alienware’s Area-51m R2. And by death, we ...

If you buy something through this post, IGN may get a share of the sale. For more, read our Terms of Use. Alienware sent me a fully loaded Area-51m with a spec sheet ...