First announced on at CES 2025, the new Alienware Area-51 Laptops serve as Alienware’s flagship laptop series, catering to customers who seek a premium gaming experience. Armed to the nines with next-gen high-performance technology and enveloped in a brand-new industrial design, Area-51 symbolizes the next act for Alienware.
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Alienware Area-51 Laptops
The Area-51 tier represents Alienware’s flagships. The systems are engineered with innovation to be the ultimate gaming experience – with these laptops it meant developing a new approach across multiple disciplines such as driving more performance with a new thermal strategy and reinventing our visual ID in a way that evokes mystery, but most importantly with the curiosity of imagining what gaming may look like into the future. This generation introduces Alienware 30 – a design language named in celebration of our forthcoming 30th anniversary.
Alienware 18 and 16 Laptop Features
- Cherry Ultra-low-profile keyboard design with 1.8mm key travel
- Multi-point, precise AlienFX touchpad
- Dolby Atmos quad speaker setup and Dolby Vision ClearMR
displays - 96WHr battery with express charge to 80% in 35 minutes
- Up to 4K 8MP IR webcam with higher resolution
- Wi-Fi 7 Tri-band technology and Bluetooth LE 5.4
- Dual Thunderbolt 5 ports for up to 80Gbps transmission
- Type-C ports enable power-in (130W) and power-out (15W)
- 18” includes Killer E5000 2.5G Ethernet port
A New Power Ceiling
- Up to 280W (18”) or 240W (16”) of gaming power.
- 18”: 175W TGP + 105W TDP
- 16”: 175W TGP + 65W TDP
- 11-phase GPU voltage regulation
- 8-phase CPU voltage regulation
- 360W SFF GaN FET adapter
Evolved Thermal Strategy
- Introducing the Cryo-Chamber
- Airflow is up by up to 35%
- Acoustics are down by up to 15%
- Enabled our new, the largest fans by volume, to date
- More copper in the thermal module across heat pipes and vapor chamber
- New 18” has 20% more volume devoted to fans than its predecessor.
Ergonomics You Can Feel
- Fluid contours give off a sheen and degree of comfort distinguishable from other gaming laptops.
- Pillowed palm rests, best understood once felt – our best effort in comfort.
- Patent-pending Zero Hinge uses telescopic and rotational motion to make an invisible looking hinge creating a seamless comfortable edge.
Wrap Up
These new Alienware Area-51 Laptops are now available on the company’s website at the link below.
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