The Unbelievable Gaming Laptop - Alienware Area 51M Review #Helpful Post

when you reviewed as many laptops as I

have getting excited about a new machine

can be difficult to say the least like

take the latest Asus zephyrus the

engineering that went into making

something that powerful that slim is

seriously impressive and yet the Zephyrs

just doesn't turn me on but looking at

the new Alienware area 51 M I have an 85

percent IRR

now eight and a half pounds the area 51

M doesn't care about you your back your

ears or even your dog but all it cares

about is insane gaming performance but

can a laptop no matter how big really

tangle with the desktop let's find out

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our model coming in a $4,500 the

Alienware

area 51 m is one serious piece of kit

and it feels like it too the magnesium

chassis has to be one of the most rigid

I've ever felt like there's absolutely

no flex and opening the screen just it

just feels so good it also has a strong

assortment of i/o with the highlights

being Thunderbolt three multiple display

outs and my personal favorite a 2.5

Gigabit Ethernet port maybe the most

interesting hole though is the power

connector or should I say connectors

this power brick alone just this one

right here weighs a quarter pound more

than the service laptop itself and it's

not even the only one there's two power

bricks and together they pump out over

500 watts now why do we need all that

power

well Dell hasn't just put laptop parts

in here that's that's just garbage

they've put in a full fat desktop grade

until Core I $9.99 hundred K as paired

pleasantly with an NVIDIA RTX 20 80 32

gigabytes of RAM and 2 terabytes of

storage now all of this computing power

is delivered to your eyeballs through a

hundred and forty-four Hertz 1080p IPS

display with HDR and gsync there is a 60

Hertz version but just don't buy that

one because this one right here is

awesome - game on I do kind of wish they

had a 1440p version but they couldn't do

it with a smaller bezel so oh well and

it's not like the 1080p panel here is

hard to look at we also have damn-near

desktop level upgrade ability removing

the bottom gives you access to four

sodium's slots for the RAM the MDOT two

slots

and a 2.5 inch drive Bay delving deeper

UPS difficulty a bit but thankfully a

lemur has created videos showing how to

properly take this machine apart along

with convenient guidelines here on the

ribcage showing just how many screws

need to come out and hopefully go back

in after removing the battery the back

shroud thing and a couple of ribbon

cables we can see the real meat of the

beast like look at this cooling they've

got six massive heat pipes spreading the

load around four heat sinks all with

these two chunky fans just chunky mean

James put that in there apparently it's

cool we need all of that del wasn't

lying when they said this is a desktop

processor so if you didn't get the 9900

K from the factory you'll have no

problem just plopping one in and

assuming the standards don't change too

much the GPU should be upgradeable to

like to be clear this isn't a standard

desktop GPU it's kind of like a

spiritual successor to MXM developed

in-house by Dell but with any luck this

will be upgradable to an RT X 21 Series

or whatever Nvidia decides to call it

next but with all this desktop grade

hardware and such a small package like

relatively speaking compared to just a

desktop was Alienware able to bend the

laws of thermodynamics and really

deliver that full desktop performance

well not quite but they did get damn

close although the area 51 M just losing

basically every test that we threw out

it compared to the MSI Triton X it

didn't fall very far behind like it's

pretty much within the margin of error

and it absolutely destroys every laptop

we've ever tested in CPU tests the i9

9900 K absolutely shreds the Asus GX 701

and like even with that having a blowing

with Tron strapped to it and also

comfortably outpaces the AMD 2700 in the

Acer Helios 500 as for GPU performance

well we just published a video titled

the fastest gaming laptop we've ever

tested both the Zephyrus and the area 51

M is just whooping it like this thing is

a cell of 15 percent faster in 3d mark

and even better in games like the

processor holy crap this thing is fast

it's just like any frame yeah I know

it's really great ok we know it's

powerful but have you been telling the

viewers the whole story - yes so when

you got those test result

it's how hot exactly was the processor a

a hundred degrees uh-huh and how fast

were the fan spinning but at max all

right all right get out of here listen I

got something to say all right I'm gonna

tell you what the area 51 M is actually

like to live with so first of all going

anywhere with it is basically a fool's

errand like it's got not one but two

power brakes and like Alex said this one

here alone weighs a quarter pound more

than the surface laptop and you need

these bricks it does have a 90 watt hour

battery close to the maximum allowed on

a plane so they can't exactly make it

bigger but with power-hungry components

like we have here you'll be lucky to

stay away from the wall for more than

two and a half hours then there's the

performance mode which just literally

pins the fans all the time which is

great for performance but it's really

loud meaning you'll be regularly going

to the control center between tasks to

pick your poison lower performance or

super noisiness and speaking of noise

that's pretty much the only thing these

speakers make like they get loud but

above about 50% volume the whole thing

just becomes a muddled mess which is

particularly annoying since Alienware

has traditionally had awesome speakers

another thing that area 51 M boasts is

Toby eye-tracking a technology that

tracks where your eyes are looking on

the screen to occasionally do cool

things but mostly to do literally

nothing due to poor support in games and

to be clear I don't want to put down

having this as a feature but it's just

unfortunate that despite this laptop

having IR and eye tracking that it also

doesn't support Windows hello facial

recognition for faster unlocking or even

just a simple fingerprint scanner this

is the kind of thing that should just be

here on a laptop that's this expensive

and will make everyday use just that

much more smooth although at least they

did manage to fit it with a half decent

webcam unlike the trackpad which is just

a big load of suck not using windows

precision drivers gives it that

synaptics drunken driver feel

hmm and even despite its small size I've

still had some palm rejection issues I

do appreciate the two dedicated buttons

and the glass top feels nice but bad

scrolling mediocre

gesture support and subpar tracking all

mean a real mouse will definitely be

your friend while using the area 51 m

and the keyboard don't get me started

the lighting on these secondary keys

would not pass razors QA but I do have

to give Alienware some real credit for

this keyboard in general the strokes are

surprisingly long and although tactile

also very smooth of all the gaming

laptops on the market Alienware might

have the best keyboards easily beating

razer msi and even a soos exactly it is

awesome

not as a laptop maybe but as a desktop

replacement and that's what this

actually is so the real question is

should you buy one well honestly it was

my $4,500 as much as I think the area 51

M is really cool I just get a desktop

and a surface laptop but I say that

having the luxury of a good place to put

a desktop and lots of people just don't

maybe you're a co-op student who get

whisked off way to any city with little

notice or someone who travels a lot for

business or just generally don't have

the space or stability for a full

desktop setup so if that's you and you

have loads of cash to throw down and the

earth doin em is going to make you feel

like a badass every time you open it up

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