We've been itching to get our hands on the Alienware M11x ever since we first saw it at CES — it's one of the most interesting riffs on the thin-and-light we've seen in a long time. Sure, it's compact ...

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It's usually pretty straightforward: an 11.6-inch notebook will deliver battery life but lack grunt, while a larger machine is more likely to pack performance at the expense of liberty from a power ...

Short version: It’s not an all-in-one gaming solution, but for under $1000 it’s a sleek and relatively powerful machine with a few compelling features. Hope you like LEDs. One of the things you ...

In the M11x, gamers finally have a fully capable notebook that’s easily portable and offers great battery life. If you’re a PC gamer sick of lugging around an 8 ...

Last week, we received a top-secret communique from Dell's Alienware division, bidding us attend a San Francisco event — where, we were told, we'd be privy to some highly classified announcements. Of ...

Dell’s promise: that the Alienware M11x is the “most powerful 11-inch gaming laptop” around. And they’re right! It’s hard to imagine packing much more oomph into such a portable frame. Then again, ...

After weeks of leaks, Alienware is finally ready to announce the latest models in its gaming laptop lineup. On the blog of parent company Dell, the freshly updated M11x and the new M14x and M18x ...