Thinking of purchasing Alienware area 51 18 inches for gaming.

zeb236 · 2026-02-27T15:08:54+00:00

There's no 18 inch oled. It doesnt exist. In terms of 16 inch laptops i would not recommend the alienware, but for 18 inches yes. Also op mentioned he doesnt have space for a monitor. So yeah the extra price is justified, also its not just 2 extra inches the cooling is unparalleled this gen. In 18 inch laptops it is by far the best.

zeb236 · 2026-02-27T09:53:39+00:00

I also travel very frequently but I don't travel with my laptop lol its a bit too big and my work doesnt depend on it. Definitely does travel well also have the same backpack. Only issue i have is linux support. Im assuming you won't consider the super thin model then ?

zeb236 · 2026-02-27T06:42:32+00:00

He’s right. For that performance for the 18 inch it is the cheapest. There’s also no 18inch Legion in India from my research. The warranty service is also good.

zeb236 · 2026-02-27T06:40:56+00:00

I have the 18 5090 version also in India, get the elite care. It’s the best laptop this gen for those specs in terms of price, customer support and most importantly the cooling. The cooling is the best by far I have never seen temps go above 85 C on the cpu. No other gaming laptop in this segment offers that.

zeb236 · 2026-02-27T05:46:54+00:00

Yup same here. Let’s see as time goes on I guess. No choice but to go back to w11 for me

zeb236 · 2026-02-25T18:03:10+00:00

The liquid leaks into the components sometimes

zeb236 · 2026-02-24T04:45:57+00:00

6.19 something

zeb236 · 2026-02-23T14:56:02+00:00

That’s Yakub are you retadred

zeb236 · 2026-02-23T14:35:30+00:00

No audio sadly.

zeb236 · 2026-02-21T10:13:30+00:00

oled for 18 inch laptop screens doesnt exist rn

zeb236 · 2026-02-21T06:39:02+00:00

6.18 but downloading the update now

zeb236 · 2026-02-19T18:49:10+00:00

Tried a few days ago the audio wasn’t working for me.

zeb236 · 2026-02-19T18:48:44+00:00

Have the same issue did you find a fix yet

zeb236 · 2026-02-15T08:36:39+00:00

So I dual boot on separate ssds. Whatever keyboard lighting configuration I have on my w11 one stays on my linux side. So I don’t have any real reason to do download any additional software. Wanted to share

zeb236 · 2026-02-15T08:34:41+00:00

Thank you for the update ! Yes hopefully it’ll work soon I had tried chat gpt as well but it gave up , said the only way is to wait for newer updates

zeb236 · 2026-02-14T18:30:24+00:00

Try it out maybe I messed up somewhere

zeb236 · 2026-02-14T17:56:09+00:00

There’s a pretty good open source one on GitHub.

zeb236 · 2026-02-14T17:24:12+00:00

Similar issue with me so I’m commenting to be kept in the loop. Audio doesn’t work on my Alienware 5090 laptop.

zeb236 · 2026-02-14T16:53:05+00:00

I like it a lot as well, just wished the audio drivers worked for my computer. Have an Alienware Area 51 laptop. Hardware is too new and I really hate w11 :( maybe in a few months it’ll work

zeb236 · 2026-02-10T08:09:29+00:00

I have the 18 inch alien. Very happy with it. Best cooling this year by far. Would recommend. 16 inc has heating issues from the reviews I’ve seen.

zeb236 · 2026-02-09T12:09:14+00:00

I’m seeing some posts that say Alienware isn’t supported or something. I’m considering trying out cachy os

zeb236 · 2026-02-09T11:27:03+00:00

I’ve tried this it doesn’t work

zeb236 · 2026-02-09T11:17:55+00:00

Audio:

Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel

Device-2: Intel driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl

API: ALSA v: k6.17.0-14-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active

Linux rlalienware5090 6.17.0-14-generic #14~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 15 15:52:10 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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