Alienware 16 Series

Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Display: 16.00 inch
Weight: 2.555kg, 3.297kg, 3.4kg
Price: 1100, 3500 euro
Average of 21 scores (from 31 reviews)
Alienware 16 Area-51
Specifications

Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop 16384 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 3.297kg
Price: 3500 euro
Links: Alienware homepage Alienware notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
戴尔今年将从头开始刷新其 Alienware 产品线,采用新的 Arrow Lake CPU、新的 Blackwell GPU 和新的 AW30 设计语言。Area-51 的外观和手感都比之前的产品更好,但它仍然表现出许多与 Alienware 相同的优点和缺点。
Foreign Reviews
Source: Ben G Kaiser

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/15/2025
Source: Ben G Kaiser

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/15/2025
Source: Gizmodo

The new Area-51 laptop feels like Alienware in a way that its most recent gaming PCs like its mammoth Area-51 desktop have not. The gaming laptop is extra: extra glowy, extra clicky, and all too over the top. The bottom panel sports a massive window where you can peer directly at the fan components. The only way you’d catch a glimpse of the rotating fans and the tint of RGB is if you lift up your laptop as if you were looking for a quarter that rolled under your dresser. The Razer Blade 18 has a similar portal on its undercarriage. As pointless as that is on either laptop, for the ever-extra Dell-owned Alienware, it seems more on point.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/12/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Gizmodo

The new Area-51 laptop feels like Alienware in a way that its most recent gaming PCs like its mammoth Area-51 desktop have not. The gaming laptop is extra: extra glowy, extra clicky, and all too over the top. The bottom panel sports a massive window where you can peer directly at the fan components. The only way you’d catch a glimpse of the rotating fans and the tint of RGB is if you lift up your laptop as if you were looking for a quarter that rolled under your dresser. The Razer Blade 18 has a similar portal on its undercarriage. As pointless as that is on either laptop, for the ever-extra Dell-owned Alienware, it seems more on point.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/12/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Hardware Canucks

Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/11/2025
Source: Hardware Canucks

Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/11/2025
Source: Mash IT

In this video we check out which 16" gaming laptop is right for you between the Razer Blade 16 and Alienware Area-51 16" Sadly we could not get the exact specs between them so the Blade has a RTX 5090 and the Alienware a 5080.
Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/08/2025
Source: Mash IT

In this video we check out which 16" gaming laptop is right for you between the Razer Blade 16 and Alienware Area-51 16" Sadly we could not get the exact specs between them so the Blade has a RTX 5090 and the Alienware a 5080.
Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/08/2025
Source: PC Mag

The Alienware 16 Area-51 earns its place as a premium gaming laptop in every sense. Our testing proved it has the style, build quality, performance, and indeed the price to justify this classification. It errs on the more understated side of flashy design while retaining a unique look and thoughtful build. This laptop's performance aligns with other top-end machines, even outperforming some better-equipped laptops, ensuring a smooth gaming experience at high resolution. Its high cost is a barrier to entry for many shoppers, but beyond that, the laptop's battery life is its only major pitfall. We don’t recommend the Alienware 16 Area-51 if you plan to use it on the go and off the charger often, but it excels as a desktop-replacement gaming rig.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC Mag

The Alienware 16 Area-51 earns its place as a premium gaming laptop in every sense. Our testing proved it has the style, build quality, performance, and indeed the price to justify this classification. It errs on the more understated side of flashy design while retaining a unique look and thoughtful build. This laptop's performance aligns with other top-end machines, even outperforming some better-equipped laptops, ensuring a smooth gaming experience at high resolution. Its high cost is a barrier to entry for many shoppers, but beyond that, the laptop's battery life is its only major pitfall. We don’t recommend the Alienware 16 Area-51 if you plan to use it on the go and off the charger often, but it excels as a desktop-replacement gaming rig.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/26/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Techradar

The Alienware 16 Area-51 stands out with an eye-catching design that sets a tough standard for competitors. Underneath, it delivers impressive gaming performance, an excellent keyboard, and capable speakers. While the 240Hz display offers fast refresh rates, the overall image quality doesn’t quite live up to expectations, and battery life during non-gaming use is lackluster.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 100% mobility: 60% workmanship: 100%
Source: Techradar

The Alienware 16 Area-51 stands out with an eye-catching design that sets a tough standard for competitors. Underneath, it delivers impressive gaming performance, an excellent keyboard, and capable speakers. While the 240Hz display offers fast refresh rates, the overall image quality doesn’t quite live up to expectations, and battery life during non-gaming use is lackluster.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 100% mobility: 60% workmanship: 100%
Source: Jarrod'sTech

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/24/2025
Source: Jarrod'sTech

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/24/2025
Source: PC World

The Alienware 16 Area-51 is an amazing 16-inch gaming laptop. Yes, it’s a good amount of money — but it’s competitively priced with other high-end gaming laptops with similar hardware, and you also get an amazing package. I love having a mechanical keyboard in a laptop. If you’re looking for a capable PC with the latest high-end hardware and this fits your budget, you’ll be happy with this machine. It’s excellent. But not everything is for everyone! Be sure to consider what type of display you want — if you want an OLED screen, the HP Omen Max 16 may be a better pick. That greenish “Liquid Teal” may give some people pause, too — I like the look, but I imagine it’s not everyone’s style. It’d be nice if Dell offered multiple color options for this laptop.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/11/2025
Rating: Total score: 97%
Source: PC World

The Alienware 16 Area-51 is an amazing 16-inch gaming laptop. Yes, it’s a good amount of money — but it’s competitively priced with other high-end gaming laptops with similar hardware, and you also get an amazing package. I love having a mechanical keyboard in a laptop. If you’re looking for a capable PC with the latest high-end hardware and this fits your budget, you’ll be happy with this machine. It’s excellent. But not everything is for everyone! Be sure to consider what type of display you want — if you want an OLED screen, the HP Omen Max 16 may be a better pick. That greenish “Liquid Teal” may give some people pause, too — I like the look, but I imagine it’s not everyone’s style. It’d be nice if Dell offered multiple color options for this laptop.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/11/2025
Rating: Total score: 97%
Source: Gamestar

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/08/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Gamestar

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/08/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Clubic

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/07/2025
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 90% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 70%
Source: Clubic

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/07/2025
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 90% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 70%
Alienware 16 Area-51, RTX 5080
Specifications

Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop 16384 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 3.4kg
Links: Alienware homepage Alienware notebook section
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Average Score:
Foreign Reviews
Source: How to Geek

In my opinion, the Alienware 16 Area-51 (2025) has very few faults. Those small flaws include the bulky, weighty build (which I really didn't mind!), the fan noise, the fairly dismal battery life, and the lack of an OLED display option. Those small things aside, the Area-51 outperformed most gaming laptops I've seen to date, which is why it's at the top of my list for the price range. If you're looking for beautiful graphics on a large display, two of the best gaming laptop CPUs and GPUs you can get, and enough power to eke out impressively high frame rates for resource-heavy games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, you won't want to look elsewhere. Still, this laptop won't be for everyone. Especially if you prefer a slimmer, less powerful option for travel purposes.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/19/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: XDA Developers

Despite some earned criticism, I can't help but love the Alienware 16 Area-51. It's not a perfect laptop by any means, with a disappointing display, so-so keyboard, and performance just a touch behind the competition. But it's also a laptop that swings big in a way few devices do, and it manages success in the process. This isn't the right laptop for all or even most buyers, but if you've been caught up in the allure of Alienware trying something different, you won't be disappointed with the 16 Area-51.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/11/2025
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Mash IT

Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/04/2025
Source: Tom's Guide

There’s no denying that the Alienware 16 Area-51 is a fantastic gaming laptop that delivers uncompromising RTX 50-series performance. On top of that, it’s also a beautiful-looking machine with elegant curves and tasty RGB lighting. Yes, it’s heavy and expensive, but it’s also freakin’ awesome! If you want a gaming laptop offering comparable performance but with an OLED panel, the Legion Go 7i Pro or HP Omen Max 16 are great, if expensive, alternatives. But if you like what I have to say about Alienware’s gaming notebook and can stomach its price, then you won’t go wrong with this purchase. The Alienware 16 Area-51 comes with my highest recommendation.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/06/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: T3

The Alienware 16 Area-51 is a sports car of a gaming laptop for gamers who want it all, with everything tweaked to maximum, and plenty of other things to fiddle with under the hood. For most people it's overkill that you won't need. But this otherworldly machine isn't about need, it's about want. And if you want the best-of-the-best in terms of power then it's an epic machine... if you can afford one, anyway.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/04/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Mash IT

n this video we review the new Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming laptop with intel 275HX and RTX 5080 gfx. This new design is stunning and a good return to form from Dell.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/04/2025
Source: Laptop Mag

The Alienware 16 Area-51 is a near-perfect gaming laptop, boasting incredible performance, a bright 16-inch display, a great keyboard, strong speakers, and a beautiful design. But its display can’t beat OLED, and we’ve seen much better battery life numbers elsewhere. A gaming laptop that supports both an OLED panel and significantly better battery life is the Razer Blade 16, although you’ll need to pay about $1,000 more to get it. I’ll pray to Cthulhu for an OLED variant of the Alienware 16 Area-51 in the future, although right now, this gaming laptop is easily one of the best we’ve seen this year, and its price point makes it all the more compelling.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Mash IT

In this video we check out the new Alienware 16 Area-51 gaming laptop. This is a new line from Alienware and includes the new intel Core 275HX cpu and Nvidia 5000 series graphics.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/13/2025
Source: Les Numeriques

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 100% display: 80% mobility: 20% workmanship: 60%
Alienware 16 Aurora
Specifications

Processor: Intel Raptor Lake-H Core 7 240H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop 8192 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 2.555kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: Alienware homepage Alienware notebook section
Price comparison
Reviews
用户只需支付 1100 美元,就能获得 120 Hz IPS 显示屏、全 sRGB 色彩和可观的GeForce RTX 5060 GPU。不过,有一个具体的缺点可能会让一些主流或竞技游戏玩家望而却步。
Alienware 16 Area-51, RTX 5070 Ti
Specifications

Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop 12288 MB
Display: 16.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 3.4kg
Links: Alienware homepage Alienware notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Foreign Reviews
Source: Frandroid

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/11/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% display: 70% mobility: 50% workmanship: 80%
Comment
Alienware:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop: Blackwell 系列笔记本电脑的快速显卡,基于 GB203 芯片,使用 8,192 个着色器和 16 GB GDDR7 显存(256 位图形总线)。
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop: Blackwell 系列移动中端显卡,基于 GB206 芯片,具有 3328 个着色器和 8GB GDDR7 显存(128 位)。
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop: Blackwell 系列即将推出的笔记本电脑显卡,Team Green 很可能会在 2025 年的 CES 上展示这款显卡。我们推测它将基于 GB205 芯片,拥有 5888 个活动统一着色器(CUDA 内核)。
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Arrow Lake:
Ultra 9 275HX: 基于 Arrow Lake 架构的游戏笔记本移动高端 CPU。提供 24 个内核,包括 8 个主频高达 5.4 GHz 的高性能内核和 16 个主频高达 4.6 GHz 的高效能内核。CPU 可访问 40 MB 二级缓存和 36 MB 三级缓存,TDP 为 55 瓦。SoC 集成了一个名为 AI Boost 的小型专用 NPU,具有 13 个 TOPS (Int8),可选择支持 vPro Essentials。
Intel Raptor Lake-H:
Core 7 240H: 基于 Alder Lake 的移动 CPU,拥有 6 个高性能内核和 4 个高效内核。性能内核提供超线程功能,共有 16 个线程。CPU 运行频率为 1.8 至 5.2 GHz。与较早的酷睿 i7-13620H 相比,酷睿 7 240H 提供了更高的时钟速度(尤其是 Turbo Boost),并支持 DDR5-5600。
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.555 kg:
这是14到16寸的标准笔记本电脑的常见重量。
3.4 kg:
通常来说,17寸笔记本电脑的重量与此相当。这对于15寸笔记本电脑来说有些过于沉重,不过对于以桌面使用方法为设计方向的设备也可以接受。
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