Alienware, CES and gaming laptop
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Dell's Alienware brand is here at CES 2026, and the biggest highlight is in Alienware's upcoming laptops. Alienware's revived classic Area-51 brand is still going strong, including an updated Area-51 desktop with potent AMD Ryzen X3D CPUs,
Beyond the innovative OLED panels on our 16” form factors, the Alienware 18 Area-51 gaming laptop joins the lineup with a major performance upgrade. All three notebooks (16X Aurora, 16 Area-51, 18 Area-51) now feature new Intel® Core™ Ultra 200HX processors and NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 50 Series GPUs, continuing to raise the ceiling of performance.
I am at CES 2026, where Dell's gaming arm, Alienware, has teased a new portfolio, unveiled anti-glare OLEDs, and introduced new silicon.
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