Alienware 16″ Area-51 Gaming Laptop with Core Ultra 9, 32GB RAM, and RTX 5080 is on sale for $3,399.99, and this build is basically aimed at you if you want a desktop-level gaming setup you can still ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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You might think the phrase "budget Alienware" is an oxymoron, but the times, they are a-changin'. Yes, even for extraterrestrials: Last week, an Alienware 27 240Hz OLED monitor for $349, and now this?

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, ...

A cheaper Alienware gaming laptop sounds great—until you look at what was cut to get there. After starting my career at PCMag as an intern more than a decade ago, I’m back as one of its editors, ...

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So, I got my hands on the Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop, and wow, it’s quite the machine. You hear ‘gaming laptop’ and sometimes you think it’s just for games, right? But this thing feels like it ...

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