Alienware's Flagship Area-51 18" Gaming Laptop With RTX 5080 GPU Drops to the Lowest Price of the Year

This peculiar configuration comes well-equipped with a 18" 2560x1600 300Hz G-Sync display, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, RTX 5080 16GB GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6400MHz memory, and a 1TB SSD. If you deliberation the magnitude of representation and retention are insufficient for your needs, remainder assured that some are easy idiosyncratic upgradeable.

There aren't precise galore 18" gaming laptops around, and adjacent less that are equipped with the RTX 5080 mobile GPU. Of the ones that are disposable for acquisition astatine the moment, this is acold and distant the slightest costly deal. In fact, it's 1 of the lone laptops I've recovered with a terms tag nether $3,000. Take a look astatine its contention (and enactment these are merchantability prices):

• Alienware 18 Area-51 (same config but new) - $5,099.99
• Razer Blade 18 for $4,100
• Lenovo Legion Pro 9 for $3,860
• Asus ROG Strix Scar for $3,255
• MSI Raider 18 HX for $3,499

The Area-51: caller color, curvy design, metallic construction, and upgraded cooling

The Alienware Area-51 is simply a sizeable upgrade compared to the erstwhile generation's Alienware m16. For starters, it's clad successful anodized aluminum for some the lid and bottommost chassis and features a unsocial iridescent decorativeness that sparkles successful nonstop lighting. The framework is made of a durable and lightweight magnesium alloy. Cooling has been upgraded with generous amounts of copper and a caller thermal interface. Dell claims that it tin grip up to 240W TDP without raising acoustics.

Design-wise, the Area 51 has a sleeker, much contoured signifier compared to erstwhile models, with rounded edges and brushed corners replacing the accepted squared disconnected design. The hinges are internally positioned truthful that they're adjacent invisible. There's a transparent model connected the undercarriage to amusement disconnected the interior components. There's besides plentifulness of RGB illumination, though astir of it tin beryllium turned disconnected if you don't similar that benignant of thing.

The RTX 5080 is much almighty than the erstwhile generation's flagship RTX 4090

The RTX 5080 mobile GPU is astir 15%-20% much almighty than the RTX 5070 Ti. Compared to erstwhile procreation GPUs, it's really somewhat much almighty than the RTX 4090. With DLSS 4.5 enabled, you should beryllium capable to tally supported games astatine 60fps oregon higher adjacent connected the MSI's 4K+ display, including Pragmata and Crimson Desert.

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