Alienware’s flagship desktop finally ditches proprietary parts The new Alienware Area-51 desktop. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The VergeAlienware has built some of the easiest-to-open toolless gaming PCs around — but for years, the Dell-owned brand has stifled their upgrade potential by limiting them to Dell’s own proprietary power supplies and motherboards. But the 2025 Alienware Area-51, an 80-lit…

Alienware’s 27-inch 4K 240Hz OLED monitor is only a couple months away Image: DellAlienware is joining Asus, Samsung, and MSI in making a silly “world’s first” claim — all four of them are now set to launch a genuinely exciting new wave of 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitors with an excellent 240Hz refresh rate. Remember when I called Alienware’s 32-inch version the best monitor of CES last year because it finally o…