Just got back last night, with a Hedgren bag bought from Adelaide. Also bought the Sennheiser PC350, super excellent headphones with immaculate sound details!
My ideal bag would be something that keeps the bulk of the laptop being carried to the absolute minimum.If I can get this, I would!

However, it would mean carrying the absolute minimum in terms of accessories that I can carry, so that is not good enough for me. With the Hedgren, it maintains the small size of the M11X, while being able to fit all the accessories I would carry around with me.
Will be walking around KL today with the Hedgren, so it would its first test on how suitable this is.
The M11X now is sleeved with a Targus sleeve that is fits up to 12 inch laptop. the problem with finding a fitting sleeve is that the M11X is also taller than your average widescreen laptop, thanks to that Alienware lightup logo on the screen. Could only get this to properly fit it in. The whole sleeve then fits into the laptop compartment in the Hedgren, together with the charger cables, Razer Goliathus mat, Razer Mamba (cables + cradle), Xbox 360 wired controller (for Grid), the Sensonic slot-loading external USB-powered DVD burner, and I would have to decide on either then Sennheiser PC350 or the Logitech G35 headphones. All this fits into the Hedgren bag that is designed to fit in 13 inch laptops. My preference is a bag that does not TOTALLY CONSUME my entire back, I'd rather have that nice and small look, than carrying an overtly aggresive bag, or God-forbid, a bag that looks like it's carrying supplies for climbing Mt.Everest!
The whole point of getting the M11X is its size, so carrying it in a laptop bag that is designed for a 15- or 17- inch laptops is overkill, and defeats its purpose of being light and small.Did all the installation and game patches while I was in Adelaide, and if you're from Australia, you know that the internet connection there are data-capped, so I'm pressed for that, than using the line for posting screenshots or surfing. Now back in Malaysia, speed is slower, but at least it's not capped.
Now installing the "laptop-gaming-killing" game, Crysis. For the rest of the games, I've managed, for the short time I've tested them, to get acceptable framerates at High settings. I now have Civilization IV Complete, Crysis Warhead, Bioshock 2, COD4 MW, COD4 MW2, COD:WAW, C&C3 Tiberium Wars, C&C3 Kane's Wrath, C&C Red Alert 3, Far Cry 2, GRID, Left 4 Dead 2, and Mass Effect 2. Of all of them, only GRID and Bioshock 2 requires their game DVDs in the drive, the rest are patched with their No-DVD patch. I'll try and expedite the benchmarks, but knowing myself, I'd rather get it perfectly running first before running any benchmark.
Also running Kaspersky on the M11X, keeping it with the tradition with my previous M15X. Very lightweight and unobtrusive.
Between the Sennheiser PC350 and the Logitech G35, I like the audio soundscape of the PC350 better. The PC350 does require a good soundcard to drive and power the analog audio coming into the headphone, and even at 100% volume, it still sound wee-bit tinny to my liking. The G35 however, sound robust, aggresive and full-bodied, thanks to the digital-to-digital audio data transfer using the USB connection. Sure, the 7.1 Virtual Dolby Digital will not perfectly fool you into thinking you have a surround setup strapped to your head, but it does emphasize and pinpoint the nuances and details of the game, helping you get immersed in the game. This is especially apparent in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2, where the action is going all around you. During the stage of the assault early in the game where you're riding support behind the machinegun through the streets of Afghanistan, requiring you to swivel 360 degrees, the surround soundscape is working overtime here and the G35 does an admirable job replicating that. So I had to choose between pristine detail(Sennheiser PC350) and aggresive power(Logitech G35).

I think I'll leave the PC350 to the M15X and stick the G35 for the M11X. More to come!
This post has been edited by stringfellow: Feb 28 2010, 07:25 AM