Copyright (c) 2010 Titus Hoskins Not too long ago all gaming laptops were huge heavy monsters with battery life lasting for about as long as you could hold your breath. While this may be a bit of an exaggeration, this description is not far off and still today most fully maxed out gaming rigs are heavy beasts which supply around an hour or two of battery time, if you're lucky. However, laptop technology is constantly changing and we are seeing the introduction of small, lightweight, yet powerful gaming notebooks. These newer laptops have much better battery life which make them more suitable Diary Books Manufacturersas a student laptop. While many parents would cringe at the thought of sending their beloved off-spring to school or university with a gaming laptop, a contradiction of sorts, until you closely examine what these small powerful notebook computers can do besides gaming. With the introduction of Intel's new i3, i5 and i7 quad-core processors, laptops now have more than enough processing power to carry out most applications, not just gaming ones. We have even seen the introduction of six-core processors (Gulftown) which supplies even more power. Keep in mind, gaming notebooks are high performance machines with heavy duty dedicated or discrete graphics cards (GPUs) which are needed for demanding video games, but these machines can also be used for video-editing, web authoring, flash creation, handling large spreadsheets and charts, doing complicated presentations... all of which could be needed by students in many academic courses or fields of study. The perfect student laptop should be very lightweight and portable, sturdily designed to take a few knocks, offer some extra security features, have high performance and supply long battery life so that it can last throughout the school day. It should also run smoothly and quietly so as not to cause any disruptions in a classroom setting. One example of these new smaller gaming laptops is the Alienware M11x which even has a back to school edition. If you're not familiar with Alienware, you should know Alienware is one of the premier name in gaming rigs and laptops. They have a solid reputation for producing some of the most powerful gaming machines on the planet and if you can get pass this marketing hype, Alienware still produces some great laptops even though they have been taken over by Dell. The Alienware M11x has even out-performed many larger laptops and is priced below $1000 which should make it an attractive choice for those students/parents on a tight budget. It sports a 11.6 inch display and the i5 or i7 processor, plus the Nvidia Geforce 335M mobile graphics chip which should be able to handle most gaming requirements. And its 8-cell battery gives over 7 hours operating time which should be enough for most students. The M11x also has the Nvidia Optimus technology which lets your laptop b5 size exercise note coil Spiral Notebookswitch automatically between your integrated graphics and your more demanding discrete graphics - saving your battery life in the process. So the next time you're choosing a student laptop, don't automatically dismiss going with a gaming notebook. Upon close examination of the features and components, some of these gaming laptops are well suited for the high school or college student, despite the obvious contradiction in name and use, for after all a laptop is a laptop is a laptop.

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