Feb 03, 2010 by Michael Lum

Especially if it’s a laptop we’re talking about.

Usually, we’d leave the mythbusting to the Mythbusters, but this one happened to be just so conveniently dropped into our hands, we couldn’t resist taking a shot at it.

So the myth goes that gaming notebooks are usually gargantuan in size, weighs a ton (relatively speaking), have very fat price tags and ridiculously short battery lives. Right?

Wrong. At least, not where Dell’s new Alienware M11x gaming notebook is concerned: with an 11” screen, the M11x is powered by a low-voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor, but backing up the not-so-stellar processor is an Nvidia GeForce GT335M graphics card, and an option to max out the machine’s memory at 8GB of DDR3 Ram, which is more than enough to run most graphically-intensive games at their highest settings without slowdown.

And for a monster of a laptop, it’s surprisingly lightweight: the M11x weighs only 4.4lib or approximately 2kg, and is capable of running on up to 8.5 hours on a battery charge. More than enough to trash some virtual soldiers during a 1hr long MRT ride back home.

Priced at S$1699 at Dell’s online store, which is reasonably cheap for a gaming laptop, we have only 2 words to say: Myth Busted!