Alienware has announced the Area-51m over at CES, a gaming laptop fully compatible with an unfettered Intel eight-core, 16-thread desktop i9 9900K CPU. But if that wasn’t intriguing enough for you, this gaming laptop’s 20-series Nvidia Turing GPU is also entirely replaceable. No, it’s not an MXM model revived from the grave, it’s something else. Something proprietary. Dell has come up with its own system for upgrading laptop GPUs called the Dell Graphics Form Factor (DGFF), reminiscent of the days of MXM (mobile PCIe Express modules), an industry-wide solution that some time ago fell to the wayside. Frank Azor, Dell XPS and Alienware chief, refers to these new replaceable graphics module as something akin to a large MXM module in stature. Thanks to these graphics card wonder modules, the Alienware Area-51m will feature both a replaceable socketed CPU and a replaceable GPU add-in board. That means this laptop may fare better against the test of time than others. However, you will still be reliant on Alienware to swap that GPU out for you at a later date.
from PCGamesN http://bit.ly/2CbeCFI
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