I love my MacBook but OSX isn’t the life-changing operating system that I seem to hear everyone extoll. After the shine and gloss has been marred by wear-and-tear, it feels just like any other. As OS is only as good as it’s applications after all, as remarkably exemplified by the newly rebranded iOS. Of course, it was a marked improvement over Windows XP, which I’m still using on my workstation and has to freaking DIE. However, Windows 7 brought about many changes that puts its usability on par or sometimes better than OSX. If only there were some way to mash these 2 OSes together..
Anyway, one of the things I mainly do on my machine is playing games, right after surfing and videos. Most of my games are not compiled for OSX, especially the more hyped, AAA games. The ones that are mostly requires a re-purchase, which I am definitely not willing to do. I mean I’ll pay for porting, but I won’t pay for the whole development twice. I bought Parallels and bootcamp-ed my MacBook in order to run these games, and ended up bootcamp-ing more. Once it’s on Windows, I don’t want to reboot just to get back to OSX to play my games. I’ll just stay there. But the problem is that the power management on Windows isn’t as good as the ones on OSX. I found that I want a laptop that is powerful enough for me to run my games (so no Intel integrated BS), yet has the 7-hour rated battery life of my MacBook when doing everything else.
And that’s when the Alienware M11x hit my radar. (more…)
