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we've heard for at least the past six months that Alienware Dal's in-house gaming brand was going to announce something very different at CES 2019 the big reveal turns out to be the new area 51 M laptop a huge 17 inch gaming system that Dell calls the world's most powerful gaming laptop it's the product of several years of design and engineering work looking for new ways to present a very familiar product now if you're thinking hey isn't the area 51 a desktop well you're right that very desktop specific brand was chosen because of the desktop level components inside the ninth gen Intel CPU and 20 series overclockable NVIDIA GPU are both modular which means they could actually be upgraded at some point although especially in the case of the GPU that's really high clinical at this point because you need a compatible new part to swap in the look overall is streamlined made from a magnesium alloy and available in either white or matte black and it's easily the most sophisticated looking at me where to date although it's definitely not slim or light there's still a 17 inch monster that weighs about eight and a half pounds but somehow the screen still manages to work in pretty slim bezels plus a 144 Hertz g-sync display and Dell claims it'll stay cool which is easy to believe considering how many vents around this thing including some new hex shaped ones on the bottom boot configurations will get expensive but it actually starts at just around $2,000 and should be available on January 21st more portable than that is the new Alienware m17 that's you've guessed it a 17 inch version of the existing m15 model he's a very slim and understated at least as far as Alienware goes and the company says it's its thinnest and lightest 17 inch family and wherever but it does use the older Alienware design language not the new area 51 style still for a non gigantic gaming laptop that doesn't skimp on performance I'm liking the m15 so far and the m17 looks like more of the same it'll come with 8th gen Intel CPUs and up to Invidia r-tx 2080 max-q graphics card starting again January 21st adds 16:50 and up but these are all definitely on the expensive side fortunately Dells budget gaming systems have been broken out to something called the G Series previously these were basically mainstream Inspiron laptops with GPUs but now that g5 and g7 models are giving a design makeover to better straddle that line between gaming and non gaming laptops previous versions of this have been huge value favorites for us and I'm sure that is going to be true of this version as well starting at $9.99