Alienware Area-51m gaming laptop has an insane 360Hz display

The Area-51m has a new option for an insanely fast 360Hz display.

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What you need to know

Dell’s Alienware Area-51m is one of the most powerful gaming laptops available. Now, you can pair its powerful internals with a speedy and smooth 360Hz display. The Alienware Area-51m is a 17-inch gaming laptop powered by a 10th Gen Intel Core S-series processor and is available today, starting at $2,000, though the configuration with a 360Hz display starts at $2,720.

The gaming laptop runs on up to a 10th Gen Intel Core i9-10900K, which is a desktop-class processor with 10 cores, 20 threads and up to an impressive 5.2 GHz of performance. That processor is paired with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. You can also choose AMD Radeon RX 5700M graphics with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

To help keep the laptop cool, the Alienware Area-51m has vapor chamber cooling. It also has 12-phase HyperEffecient Voltage Regulation to maintain its power levels and to drive performance over long gaming sessions.

This powerful gaming laptop has an option for a 360Hz display. It runs on up to a 10th Gen Intel Core i9-10900K and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU.

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