Best Laptop Deal of the Day: $300 Off the High-Powered Alienware Area-51

I recently wrote about the 18-inch Alienware Area-51 laptop being on sale, and now the 16-inch configuration is also seeing a significant price cut. The 2025 Alienware 16 Area-51 is a premium configuration (entry-priced configurations becoming available later in the year) that utilizes cutting-edge components like the new RTX 50 series laptop GPUs and a powerful Intel “Arrow Lake” Core Ultra 9 275HX mobile processor. It’s the gaming laptop to beat, and you can save $300 right now and experience everything the gaming industry has to offer.

One of the first things you’ll notice about this rig is the ambient AlienFX lighting pulsing through the touch pad, and those eye-catching RGBs extend to the rear bar, and even the fans underneath. If you want something that will stand out among the sea of other high-end gaming laptops, you’ve found it. Our experts haven’t reviewed this model just yet (we plan on thorough testing later this year), but in our Sneak Peek during CES 2025 in January, Matthew Buzzi, noted that the improved thermal design from existing models is purported to move 37% more air through the chassis while also being 15% quieter. 

This is the first Alienware laptop to sport PCIe Gen 5 solid-state drives, and thanks to the inclusion of the RTX 5080 GPU, there’s a lot of power and speed to go around. Jump into recent releases like the action-adventure game, South of Midnight, at its highest settings and marvel at the southern fantasy world come to life on the gorgeous 16-inch QHD+ display. 64GB of high-bandwidth RAM makes light work of multitasking and heavy resource tasks like 3D rendering and video editing. You get all this and more, on sale now for a huge $300 off retail. And with specs like these, you won’t need an upgrade anytime soon.

(Credit: Joseph Maldonado)

Don’t forget to check out yesterday’s Best Laptop Deal of the Day for May 15.

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About Jade Chung-Lee

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When she isn’t perusing online stores for deals, Jade enjoys playing video games (mostly JRPGs and roguelikes), sorting board game components neatly into containers, and building Gundam models. Her love of electronics has persisted through her youth and has resulted in a collection of gaming peripherals including keyboards and controllers, scale figures, and art work. Jade lives in blissful harmony with her wife, cat, and two chinchillas—as well as a host of houseplants.

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