we've got a mystery package from Dell let's find out what's in it so here we
have the Alienware area 51 M very sexy very exciting gaming
laptop I'm not gonna talk about anymore let's just get it open and see
what's at what don't break it the first thing so let's get my trusty
scissors it's that how's the packaging let's get a proper look at what we've
got here and here we have the Alienware area 51 M it comes in two it comes in
white and Space Gray or not space grey but grey. Oh the excitement's too much what
have we got what have we got just flip that around here so everyone can
appreciate their magic at the exact same time well we've got the gray one that's
interesting so here we are okay so first impressions is a lot
lighter than I thought it was gonna be that's actually it's not too bad is
there a battery in there there has to be a battery in there okay so yeah Barry is
much lighter than conventional gaming laptops which is quite impressive
considering how much power is supposed to be in here so what else do before we
go in deeper into the actual laptop let's have a look at wells we've got in
here so we've got a little note from alien we're kind of explained in the
history of company it's always nice nice tool nice touch and what have we got
here okay so actually support guides and all the fun stuff that comes with it
can't explain all the ports and all that stuff there's some warranty info in here
it's not the kind of thing that we want to be taking a look at right now but
it's good to know that it's all better shut that away so now here we go
this is where things start getting a bit more heavy-duty so we've got one back
there and we've actually got a second one here
now doesn't need to pounce horses I suppose we're going to find out once we
start setting it up but this is not as mobile a laptop as I was initially
hoping but hey let's just keep on going so I think that might be it for the
actual box itself I don't think there's much more in Harris just yeah it's just
packaging so let's just get rid of that
it's like magic and let's talk a little bit about the actual laptop itself so
yeah there's a power bricks there and the power cables sounds lovely
so you got this kind of matte finish on the exterior which is really nice area
51 engraved on the lid right there as you'll be able to see and of course got
the alien logo let's talk at the back so you've got this new exhaust kind of like
an exhaust pipe system which should pump out a lot of heat from the laptop which
is good because it's got really high-end specs and its got like a proper cheat
they've got an RT X processor really fast CPU and you know all that causes a
lot of heat especially a laptop so it's good that alien wares kind of thought
about this and for you know what let's just think of something new at this time
so yeah the air comes in from the sides cool air cools is pulling from the sides
and from the bottom from this vent here and it's all jetted out in the back now
whether that will actually work in performance yeah we'll have to wait and
see the last let you're on ok let's open this up oh ok this is very nice so let's
spin that round to the front here so everyone else can see so what we've got
here is I mean first things first this display is really nice 17 inches 144
Hertz refresh rate and you'll notice that the bezels are a lot smaller than
on other gaming laptops which is I'm sure very welcome for a lot of you and
if I flip it to the side you've actually got you know this display itself is very
very thin it's a yeah lot thinner than my game and that's up at the moment now
I'm slightly jealous but yeah it's fine it's fine
underneath the display actually so let's get this flipping this way so underneath
the display you'll see Toby on track in saw hardware that's all built-in so that
means that when you're play games and stuff like that the tracking
software all tracked where you're looking in-game and it could focus it
depending on the game of course could focus on a different enemy or activate
something that you need or without having to click on anything it's really
cool it doesn't always work a hundred percent if I'm being honest
but hey it is always a way with technology another improvement is the
keyboard it's cute gaming laptop keyboards always a little bit
questionable you know I mean personally I always get that I get separate
keyboard own separate Mouse to play games with my laptop but I mean it's not
ideal especially because that's not supposed to be portable so that's why I
dealt an alienware have improved the keyboard on the area 51 M it's got two
point two millimeters actuation which means it's very quick for typing and
it's not just good for gaming it's good it's a good feel for when you're kind of
just working on on documents and sending emails and browsing the web so it's just
a good all-round keyboard I mean it's just it looks really nice you can't
really complain about the look of this you know some some gaming that socks
look a bit garish look a bit without it okey and bad but this one's got I mean
you've still got that you know it's fat at the bottom it's got the signature
game that sort of look but it's kind of it's a 20-19 take on it so this vennett
port can actually support 2.5 gigabits per second in espies which is around 2.5
times faster than most laptops ideal for if you're downloading you know
high-intensity online gaming all that kind of fun stuff and well so we've got
a full HDMI port we've got a display port you've got your two power ports
there because obviously that's what this big these two our supplies and then on
the side we've got a USB port we've got USB C port we've got our headphone and
microphone ports on this side here and then what have we got on the flip so
we've got I can see you two more USB see even more USB ports there which is very
handy because I've got the Alienware 17 r4 and there is a severe lack of us
bestow it's good but this has more now I'm going to turn it on because half of
a gaming laptops draw is the LEDs so let's have a look see how this thing
lights up if there's any charge on it let's be honest well we've got power
here we go they've got a fully RGB a backlit keyboard here strobing for a
lovely color spectrum cheeky possibly it's very bright in here you might not
be able to see it but is that you've got some definite backlighting behind here
and yeah you know it's already booted up from a cold start which is really
impressive so as you can see you've got these as well as the keyboard here
that's all lit up you've got the Alienware logo on the rear that's lit up
and you've also got this highlight around the exhaust port system at the
back it's not really as in-your-face as other Alienware laptops that's what
we've seen in the past of how to kind of RGB strips across the top of the sides
and basically everywhere this is a little bit more toned down but I mean
there's something that I think we could appreciate so half the excitement with
this is that we don't actually know the specific spec of this laptop so let's
find out what we've got to play with first things first before I even go on
the screen I can see from the sticker here that we've got a core i99 for gem
processor which is very exciting because it's my first I nine laptop so whoo it's
exciting and then just taking a look at the computer itself we can see that
we've got 32 gigabytes of RAM note that it can go up to 64 which is insane and
then alongside that we've got the RT X 2080 so this thing is about a million
times faster than my home gaming PC so yeah it's pretty powerful in this
incredibly small form-factor it looks very impressive I can't wait to
put it through its paces in the next few days and a few weeks and see what it can
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