f you're a PC gamer sick of lugging around an 8- to 10-pound monster with awful battery life just to play games, Alien ware's M11x is your salvation. This 11.6-inch ultra portable laptop has enough power to play all the latest titles while making only modest compromises, yet it's considerably more portable than typical gaming notebooks in the 15-inch range, let alone giant desktop-replacement notebooks. With prices starting at $799 (as of April 2, 2010; our review system was kitted out to a $1099 configuration), it generally doesn't cost as much as those larger alternatives, either.
The M11x squeezes its fantastic performance into a small package by taking an Intel SUI7300 ultra-low-voltage CPU, which normally runs at 1.3GHz, and overclocking it to 1.73GHz by way of boosting the front side bus from 800MHz to 1066MHz. At least, that's what you find on Alien ware's spec sheets and in the Windows system properties page. Using the CPU-Z tool to examine the CPU properties, we discovered that the clock multiplier was dropped from its default 6.5 to 6.0, making the final clock speed 1.6GHz. If you don't like the overclocked speed, an option in the BIOS lets you tell the CPU to run at the default speed. Alien ware fully supports the overclocked speed in the one-year warranty (optional extended warranties are available).
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