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February 14, 2010
Racer Tornado could see no sky….no earth…nothing else in sight, but the track of the bike race ahead…. It was the rocky terrain race.
Three… The referee had started the countdown. The silence was broken by the jerked acceleration noises of the bikes.
Two… Tornado’s grip over the accelerator tightened.
One and go… Vrrrrrroooooooooooooooommmmmmmm….. Off sped the bikes raising a storm of dust…
The track slowly started getting rockier… Tornado was ripping along the path at 120 mph. From the side of his eyes, he could see another racer speeding beside him. Tightening his frown, he accelerated his bike a little more. He sped along the track that twisted and turned between the hills and mountains.
Dark under-bridges, splashy and bumpy stretches and sharp bends passed by. And then came the 70-degree-downhill path. “Yoohoooooooooo!!!” Off he sped down the slope, his body violently shaking as the bike jerked along the rock-infested path. Gripping his handle-bar tighter and balancing on the footrest, Tornado felt that passion… that mad adrenalin rush… the pleasure of slicing through the powerful wind that strongly opposed him.
The terrain was flat again… On one of the skidding paths, 2 bikers sped past him. One of them giving him a violent beating with a stick… It was Sharpshooter, the racer who was known for his devilish tricks on the tracks. Between his clenched teeth Tornado whispered, “I’ll get you.”
At a distance, Tornado saw several flags fluttering in the breeze. It was the finish line. The 2 bikers were still ahead of him… “Gotta win”, he said to himself. Bending himself lower for better streamlining, and eyes fixed on the finish line, he mustered the power of every single muscle-cell in his arms and made a dash for the winning line. At 300m to the finish line, he overtook one of the bikes. One more to go. He was racing neck to neck with the other bike now. It was Sharpshooter. Just a 100m more. With a final stroke of acceleration, Tornado catapulted forward and sped past the finish line. His momentum was so high that he came to a halt only after 200m from the winning line. He took off his helmet. Yes! He had won by a fraction of a second. The crowd was cheering.
He closed eyes and basked in that victorious moment. When all of a sudden, some one was shaking him “Eddie. Take off those headphones, will you.”
Opening his eyes, Eddie woke up to the real world and realised that he was still sitting in the WiFi hotspot at his workplace.
“Don’t you want to go home? Or you still want to sit racing on your laptop?”, it was John, his colleague.
“Oh I never realise how time passes by when I’m playing on my Dell Alienware M11x.”, said Eddie.
“What’s so great about it?”, asked John who was a tech-savvy.
“It is one of the very few netbooks, with an 11.6″ screen but has the power of a 15″ laptop. The NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M does the graphics.”, Eddie always took pride in explaining about his M11x. Gaming laptops are usually power-packed and heavy. But this one is easily portable, and yet offers all the power one will need for high speed gaming and HD 720p video playback. It also has a HD resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.
“NVIDIA graphics was used in that 3D movie, Avatar right?”, asked John who always kept a note of what’s happening in the technological world.
“Yes. NVIDIA graphics was used in that movie.”, replied Eddie, as they walked out of the office premises.
“Impressive. Tell me more about your netbook?” Give John a small slit about any technology or gadget and then you’ll see him dig out his path till he knows all about it.
“There’s an Intel dual core processor inside; up to 8GB DDR3 RAM; either a maximum of 500GB HDD or a 256GB SSD; runs Windows 7; there’s high definition 5.1 surround sound; FireWire; 3 USB ports; HDMI; 3-in-1 card reader; Bluetooth; and even a digital TV tuner. It weighs a little below 2kg.”
“That’s really good. I just leave my laptop at office. Too heavy to be carried around while travelling. What about battery life?” John was quite sure that a powerful device like the M11x would not last long on battery.
“For regular surfing and emailing, I get about 8 hours. High speed gaming and videos give me lesser. When not playing games, I switch over to the integrated graphics, which consumes lower power.”
“Great. And the price?”, John seemed highly impressed and interested to buy one.
“Got it for £749. Seems high. But for gamers on the move, it’s ideal. Planning to buy one?”
John gave a smile. It was a wicked kind of smile. “Yes I will Tornado. And when I do, Sharpshooter will beat you.”
Eddie smiled back. “Meet you on the tracks Sharpshooter.”
The two ardent gamers shook hands and parted ways.
Dell Alienware M11x Gaming Netbook
January 13, 2010
You don’t have to be a couch potato when it comes to gaming anymore. The Dell 
Alienware M11x Netbook is a light and portable gaming laptop, which weighs just 1.8kg and has powerful features for gaming. Infact, this can be called the first powerful gaming netbook.
The Alienware M11x has an 11″ screen with a high definition resolution of 1366×768 pixels. The powerful NVIDIA GT335M graphics processor has been used in this netbook. High speed games with demanding graphics can be played smoothly at 30 frames per second and even 50fps. There is a 2nd chipset integrated within this device. When not gaming, one can switch to this chipset inorder to conserve power, without the need to switch off the device.
The mini gaming laptop offers multiple USB ports, an HDMI output, a VGA port and an SD card reader. There is a slot for a SIM card too, for 3G internet access. WiFi is also supported by this device.
The battery life of this netbook is a little less compared to that of other netbooks. That’s a price one will have to pay for the power-packed features it has. It is said to offer 3-4 hours for gaming and about 6 hours for regular computations.
The Alienware M11x Gaming netbook is expected to step into stores in February. The pricing for the US is said to be less than $1000. The UK pricing is yet to be announced.
Alienware M17X Laptop
June 2, 2009
Warning : Before you read this piece of article, a word of caution for those weak hearts, who cannot take surprises and too much of good news! The Dell Alienware M17X Laptop is a powerful device with breath-taking specifications and jaw dropping features. Hence, please take deep breaths and then plunge further.
Majestic, humongous, yet attractive, Alienware M17X Laptop has got it all right on the looks front. The royal black with the crimson lighting around the keys, trackpad and lower edge, definitely make this hulk look unique. The lighting zone might even be capable of emitting other colour lights.
This laptop is mighty from the inside as well. The Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz processor has been employed for handling internal operations. There is an option to upgrade this to a quad core processor too. Boosting up the processing speed is a supreme 8GB DDR3 RAM. The hard drive capacity is a walloping 1TB. One terabyte is equivalent to 1024GB! (Hope you are still deep breathing!) You could even opt for a 512GB Solid State Drive instead. A Blu Ray optical drive is housed in this beast as well.
All you gaming enthusiasts might have their hearts racing and craving for more details. A 17-inch LCD widescreen monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels is featured. Clear, crisp and detailed displays are hence a surety. For graphics, dual 1GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M GPUs are used. There is a long line-up of connections aboard this gamers’ paradise too - 4 USB ports, a USB/eSATA combo port, a Firewire port, a Displayport, a HDMI link, a VGA connection, an ExpressCard slot, an 8-in-1 card reader and audio sockets for 6.1 Dolby sound. Also built-in is a 2 Megapixel camera for video conferencing.
Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity are offered by this machine. Face recognition is supported for security. With a thickness of 2.11” and a weight close to 5kg, this workstation is not very portable. However, since it is more of a multimedia and gaming laptop, you wouldn’t be traveling often with it. A 9-cell battery has been employed for power supply. A reasonably good battery life can thus be expected too. Coming to the price, the Alienware M17X Gaming Laptop costs $1800 in the USA. The UK price will be announced sometime soon.
Alienware Area 51 M15X Laptop
January 7, 2009
Alienware Area 51 M15X Gaming Laptop comes to the Europe market after the long run in the U.S markets. Alienware proudly proclaims that Alienware Area 51 M15X Laptop is the first gaming notebook to feature a 15” screen, Intel Core 2 Extreme processor and a 9800M GT graphics card. This gadget, which is rightly named as it is virtually an alien to the contemporary mobile computing, aspires to stay well ahead of its rivals. This lappie comes power processed by Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor, whose dumbfounding clockspeed is 2.8 GHz and it also supports a 6MB L2-cache . Alienware Area 51 M15X Laptop features an Intel PM965 chipset on its motherboard and the memory domain of this notebook is factorised by a DDR2 PC5300 RAM of 667MHz clockspeed, whose storage capacity amounts to 2048MB.
Alienware Area 51 M15X Entertainment Laptop is installed with NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics card, which exclusively supports a GDDR3 video memory of 512 MB. The display is the sector, where Alienware excels, as the 15.4” wide screen features WUXGA LCD Display (resolution of 1920×1200 pixels). The display of Alienware Area 51 M15X Laptop is further fortified with the Clear View technology and matte finish, which would soothe your eyes impressively. The Express Card 54mm and 7in1 Card Reader are located on the right side of the chassis, while its left side is furnished by 2 USB interfaces, a LAN port and earphone, microphone connections. This widget also supports an Infrared port and a Kensington Lock. There is also a Firewire interface and a HDMI port on the right side of this gadget . The networking feature of this laptop is enabled with a Gigabit Ethernet of Broadcom NetLink protocol and its wireless networking is enabled by its Intel Wireless 4965AGN Wi-Fi Link and Bluetooth 2.0 features.
A Rewritable Sony DVD ROM is integrated as the optical drive in this device and Alienware Area 51 M15X Laptop is incorporated with the Windows Vista Home Premium of 32 bit computing module as the operating system. This notebook comes with a measurement of 33 mm height, 273 mm depth and 360 mm depth, 3.56 kg weight. The web cam of this laptop allows you to indulge in video conferencing and the Realtek ALC885/889A sound card takes care of the audio compartment.
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