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Dell Hit With Fraud Case Over Alienware Area-51m Upgrade Claims

Friday June 4, 2021. 06:01 PM , from Slashdot/Apple
A California man has filed for a class action lawsuit against PC manufacturer Dell, claiming that the company 'intentionally misled and deceived' buyers of its Alienware Area 51-m R1 gaming laptop, which was advertised to be more upgradeable than other gaming notebooks. From a report: The plaintiff, Robert Felter, who is based in San Francisco, alleges that Dell misleads customers to believe that the laptop would be upgradeable, possibly into future generations of components. The case, Felter v. Dell Technologies, Inc. (3:21-cv-04187) has been filed with the United States District Court in the Northern District of California. The Alienware Area 51-m was announced at CES 2019 and launched soon after. (The complaint claims the announcement was made in the summer of 2019, which is incorrect.). Among the Area 51-m's biggest touted innovations were a user-replaceable CPU and GPU.

At media briefings, Alienware representatives told the press that the CPU could be upgraded as long as it used Intel's Z390 chipset. The laptop used Intel's 9th Gen Core desktop processors, up to the Intel Core i9-9900K. Dell developed separate proprietary Dell Graphics Form Factor (DGFF) modules for the Nvidia graphics. The lawsuit, however, claims that consumers were told that 'core components' (meaning the CPU and GPU) could be replaced beyond the current generation of hardware. 'Dell's advertisement to the public didn't place any restrictions on the upgradeability of the laptop,' lawyer David W. Kani said in an email to Tom's Hardware. 'They also never disclosed that those with the highest spec CPU and/or GPU that their device would not be upgradeable.'

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