<p>Although Dell bought alienware, alienware’s manufacturing process is still separated. So in turns of quality, alienware is still better. Only other laptop that I would recommend for gaming, that’s portable, reliable, and powerful would be the MacBook pro 15, which is like $800 more expensive than Mx11. Spec wise, also look into HP envy 14. It looks great on paper but then again, a buddy of mine has one and his hard drive failed after 6 months is is kinda sketchy in the reliability area like all HPs.</p>