This awesome laptop, the Alienware M11x, debuted at the CES show in January and has been blowing away the gaming community ever since. It’s extremely compact, very sleek and totally cool looking. It’s core components and powerful performance all come together in a great-looking package that only Alienware could deliver.
The ULV Core 2 Duo is paired with a NVIDIA GT335M graphics processor (which can be swapped). That’s some serious punch in this tiny machine.
Plus, all of this in the M11x by Alienware comes at less than $1,000! In fact, fully pimped, the machine is still only $949 and the base model, which has plenty of umph for most gamers anyway, is only $799. That rocks hard. The higher-priced package is definitely worth it, though, coming with a 1.3GHz SU7300 Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM.
Probably the coolest parts of the Alienware M11x design are teh great use of LED lighting to make the thing look totally awesome. The keys, front speakers, Alienware head eyeballs, and more are all backlit by LED. And those colors are totally customizeable and software-controlled so you can do all kinds of cool effects with them. Very cool effect and something that Alienware has mastered over the years.
The machine has the plugins you’d expect as well. There is a VGA out, three USB ports, ethernet, HDMI, DisplayPort, a memory card reader, FireWire, dual-mic/headphones, and of course, the AC plug. Underneath is a battery meter, which is a fine touch too.
The whole thing weighs about 4 and a half pounds and comes complete with a keyboard laid out for gaming. The only downer to the M11x by Alienware is its screen, which is small because of the compact size of the laptop. Still, it’s a 1366×768 LED-backlit and it has great viewing angles and performance.
This is definitely an awesome machine. Especially for the diminutive price.