Dell has unveiled what they call the most powerful gaming laptop in the whole wide world.

The Alienware M11x offers an exceptional combination of attributes in a notebook – small size, light weight and powerful graphics performance. Most of the time, to get good graphics performance in a gaming notebook you have to go for a 17 inch machine that has heavy internal cooling systems.

The Nvidia GeForce GT 335M found in the M11x is not a high end, desktop-grade graphics chip, but it is in the upper end of what would be considered ‘mid-range’ and Dell says it can get a score of over 6,100 in the gaming-oriented 3DMark 06 benchmark.

The M11x costs $1599 and has decent specifications of a 500GB 7200RPM hard drive, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium and a red-backlit “AlienFX” keyboard (pictured below), 1.3MP webcam and 11.6″ LED-backlit LCD display with a 1366×768 resolution – very good for the panel size. There’s also inbuilt 5.1 sound.