The sad tale of the Alienware Area-51m tells us why we'll never, ever see upgradeable graphics in a laptop.

With the Alienware Area-51m gaming laptop, Dell is launching a new design as well as a desktop-class powerhouse. Here's our close look.

The Alienware Area-51m is the company’s new flagship gaming laptop, touted at CES 2019 as the “world’s most powerful gaming laptop.” And with user-replaceable processors, graphics cards ...

Despite Alienware’s goals for future-proofed upgradable parts, the Area-51m has failed to live up to its potential. One of the biggest draws of the Area-51m was the option for user-replaceable ...

Marketed for its "unprecedented upgradeability," the Alienware Area-51m is more of a promise than a final product. While supremely high performance, it lacks the one killer app needed to thrive ...

The Alienware Area-51m is packed with the latest desktop components, wrapped in a beautiful chassis. Read our Alienware Area-51m review to see if it's worth that hefty spending.

Watch as we upgrade the powerful Alienware Area 51m R2 with a blazing-fast Samsung 970 SSD and 32GB of high-speed 3200MHz RAM ...

The Alienware Area-51m is a massive gaming laptop that paves a new path forward for the brand. While it offers many old-school features, it also brings a new look and design philosophy that gamers ...

At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Alienware is introducing an all-new Area-51m laptop. With desktop-grade processors, it is being called the most powerful gaming laptop ever ...

What else makes the Alienware Area-51m the most true-to-form gaming laptop? In addition to being a powerful gaming laptop and desktop replacement, it is also overclockable.

The Alienware Area-51m just created a new standard for gaming laptops -- meet the most powerful gaming laptop ever with upgradable components.

Or is it the new Alienware Area-51m, a hefty 17-inch system that's more desktop than laptop under its magnesium alloy exoskeleton?