For a gamer, buying a laptop is always a compromise: what you gain in portability you lose in upgradeability. Sure, some laptops allow you to upgrade your RAM and storage, but you’re almost always ...

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Alienware’s redesigned powerhouse laptop promises the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features: It’s big, fast, beautiful, and even upgradable, with a desktop CPU and a custom upgradable GPU design.