The big picture: The Area-51m, designed around the company's new "Legend" industrial design language, is Alienware's latest flagship notebook. It's unique in that it features a user-upgradeable, ...

Marketed for its "unprecedented upgradeability," the Alienware Area-51m is more of a promise than a final product. While supremely high performance, it lacks the one killer app needed to thrive among ...

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.