Alienware M11x is Dells’ new gaming notebook.

Ok, why this product differs from the rest of the Alienwares? It is simple. Until now Dell’s Alienware team have built high tech notebooks for gaming, but their price were high off the limits. Their laptops were considered luxury pieces of technology.

Now the Alienware team changed the strategy. They managed to create a small notebook that can fit the small table of a plane, powerful enough to play the latest 3D games and most important, cheaper. Many gamers will prefer this notebook instead of other versions of gaming notebooks. The starting price is 800$, and it may seem expensive, but it is nothing compared to the starting price of 1200$ for a standard version of a gaming laptop.

Alienware M11X Review

Now let’s get on with the Alienware M11X review. It is a small notebook, as I said. It only weights 4,4lbs and has the dimensions of 11.25″ x 9.19″ x 1.29″. At a height of only 1.29” you will think that it is a thin device, but compared to some of Lenovo 6-cell battery or other laptops form Apple you will see that it is actually “bigger”.

The design is great. They kept the strange alien design. The thing that jumps into your sight is the lighting of the keyboard, that also gives it a strange out-of-space design. It has a led, shaped as an alien head, of which color can be changed by the user so it can alert you when the battery is low or when it runs connected to a cable. For example you can adjust it to red when it is plugged to an electricity cable and red when it runs on its own battery.

It has a 11.6″ WXGA WideHD LED Backlit display (1366×768) display. The contrast differs, depending on the angle of approach. The colors are great and you won’t have any problems playing games or browsing through the web even in the sunlight.

As I already told you about the keyboard design with the lighting.It looks great, but not only that it responds great also.You will hear minimum noise when typing.The keys are not big and not so small, they are just perfect for such a small device, and I think users won’t have problems typing or playing games using their keyboard. The touchpad has a nice surface when touched and it can be used easily.

Alienware M11X Specs

Digging into the laptop we find a 1.3GHz Intel SU4100 (800MHz FSB, 2MB Cache) processor and 4GB of DDR3 (2 X 2Gb). For the graphics this device has a Nvidia GeForce GT 335M Discrete Graphics (1GB GDDR3) with switchable Intel GMA 4500MHD integrated. Also you have 802.11b/g/n, 10/100 LAN and 3-in-1 card reader.

In the end I wanna tell you that this truly looks like a good device, specially for gamers, and I’m sure that many will rush down tot the stores and buy one as fast as they can. It is cheap, it looks great and I think that it is reliable.