The big picture: The Area-51m, designed around the company's new "Legend" industrial design language, is Alienware's latest flagship notebook. It's unique in that it features a user-upgradeable, ...

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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.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been disappointed by gaming laptops—I avoided them myself and advised friends to do the same, given the lower performance levels they offered versus desktop PCs.