Alienware’s new 16 and 18 Area-51 gaming laptops are gorgeously out of this world
Xenomorphs in gaming laptop form
💻 Alienware launches its 16 Area-51 and 18 Area-51 gaming laptops
🖌️ They look gorgeous with a pearlescent dark teal-green paint job and xenomorph-like design cues
📺 Features a 16- and 18-inch QHD+ screen rated for 240Hz and 500 nits of brightness
⚙️ Specced with the latest Intel Core Ultra 200Hx and Nvidia RTX 5000 components
Alienware's newly designed 16 Area-51 and 18 Area-51 are truly the most uniquely designed gaming laptops I’ve seen at CES so far.
They sport a unique, eye-catching Liquid Teal color that switches between a dark teal and emerald green depending on which angle you look at it. It’s an anodized carapace – as described in Alienware’s materials – has plenty of otherworldly touches, such as a pair of oval-shaped exhausts that look straight out of the Alien movies.
Alienware even went out of the way to develop a new telescopic hinge that rotates out of the laptop. This extra design feature lets the laptop fold into a seamless pod when closed.
The display looks just as gorgeous as the external design. Though they aren’t OLED, Alienware has gone with bright 500-nit displays with a 240Hz refresh rate and a sharp QHD+ (2560 x 1600) resolution.
Looks aside, the Alienware 16 and 18 come fully loaded with Intel’s latest Arrowlake-HX processors, including the Intel Core Ultra 255Hx and 275Hx. On the graphics side, you can also customize these machines with Nvidia’s latest RTX 5000-series graphics cards.
Memory and storage on these machines start at 16GB of DDR5 6,400MHz and a 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4 SSD.
Alienware has yet to release pricing and availability information for its new 16- and 18-inch laptops, but we’re likely to hear more soon, so stay tuned for more.
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