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After relaunching its Area-51 marque pinch a caller 16-inch laptop successful 2025, Alienware is teasing 2 caller laptops astatine CES 2026 successful an effort to scope an moreover larger audience. Dell's gaming marque plans to motorboat some entry-level and ultra-slim models later this year, and successful nan meantime, it's rolling retired updates to its existing desktops and laptops to tide group over.
Alienware isn't sharing each nan specifications of its caller laptops astatine CES, but we do person nan highlights. The company's caller "ultra-slim gaming laptop" will beryllium astir 17mm aliases 0.67 inches thin, and travel successful either 14-inch aliases 16-inch variants. While nan 16-inch type of nan laptop will characteristic NVIDIA discrete graphics and "new highly businesslike CPUs," it's not meant to beryllium a gaming powerhouse for illustration nan Area-51. Instead, Alienware suggests nan laptop will activity for gaming and besides "creative projects, productivity and everything successful between."
The entry-level laptop is likewise not astatine Area-51-levels of power, but Alienware claims it'll present "strong gaming performance" astatine its "most accessible value constituent yet." That should ideally put nan caller laptop nether nan $1,199 starting value of nan much streamlined Alienware 16 Aurora laptop.
The Alienware Area-51 Desktop will get updated pinch nan latest AMD chips successful February 2026. (Dell)
On apical of those 2 caller models, Alienware is bringing caller anti-glare OLED panels to a action of its Alienware 16X Aurora and Alienware 16 Area-51 laptops, on pinch caller Intel Core Ultra 200HX chips. The caller show panels scope 620 nits of highest HDR brightness and person a 0.2ms consequence clip for moreover smoother gameplay. The Alienware 18 Area-51 is besides getting an upgrade to Intel Core Ultra 200HX chips, while nan Alienware Area-51 Desktop will vessel pinch AMD's caller Ryzen 7 9850X3D chips.
There's presently nary pricing disposable for Alienware's caller laptops, aliases nan updated versions of its older models. The updated Alienware 16X Aurora, Alienware 16 Area-51, and Alienware 18 Area-51 laptops will beryllium disposable successful Q1 2026. The update Alienware Area-51 Desktop is coming successful February 2026.
