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

The Alienware 16″ Area-51 Gaming Laptop with Core Ultra 9, 32GB RAM, and RTX 5080 on sale for $3,399.99 is aimed at you if you want a true desktop-level gaming setup you can move around. You get an ...

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Even though Alienware has been around for 30 years, the company hasn't really made an affordable, entry-level gaming laptop. But that changes today with the succinctly named Alienware 15, and based on ...

To put that into perspective, when I reviewed the 2025 Alienware 16 Area-51, a model with 32GB of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce RTX ...

PCWorld reviews the new Alienware 15 gaming laptop, which starts at $1,299 with RTX 4050 graphics and offers Intel or AMD processor options. The laptop features a 15.3-inch 165Hz display, 16GB DDR5 ...

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Alienware is Dell's premium PC gaming brand, so seeing a more affordable entry is both surprising and welcome. Starting at $1,299 USD, the new Alienware 15 certainly hits the right sweet spot, ...

Alienware has always been known for its over-the-top and expensive gaming PCs, but it just announced the Alienware 15, its first true budget gaming laptop. The Alienware 15 will come with either an ...

The “budget” gaming laptop always seemed like a misnomer. In today’s age, with RAM prices through the stratosphere and gadgets suffering from shrinkflation, any notion of affordability is practically ...

Alienware is expanding into a more affordable segment of the gaming laptop market with the launch of the new Alienware 15, which comes equipped with a five-year-old RTX 3050 GPU to bring the price ...

Earlier this year at CES 2026, Dell stated it wanted to make its Alienware brand more accessible to people who don’t want to spend premium prices. After releasing a $350 QD-OLED monitor last month, ...