Woot has cut $1,229 off the price of an 18-inch Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop, bringing it down to $2,449.99. The deal represents a 33% discount, according to the listing, and is scheduled to run for seven days, although stock may sell out sooner.
The laptop is powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 9 275HX, a 24-core processor with eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores, reaching boost speeds of up to 5.4GHz. Graphics are handled by a mobile Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 with 8GB of GDDR7 memory and 4,608 CUDA cores.
Its 18-inch LCD screen has a 2,560 x 1,600 resolution, a 300Hz refresh rate and a rated brightness of 500 nits. The configuration also includes 32GB of dual-channel DDR5 memory running at 6,400 MT/s and a 1TB Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD.
Connectivity includes two 40Gbps Thunderbolt USB-C ports, HDMI 2.1, 2.5Gb Ethernet, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, a headphone jack and an SD card slot. The source notes that some specifications are confirmed by images in the product listing rather than being readily available in its written details.
Sources: Tom's Hardware.