My five-year-old son has an aggravating way of responding to decisions. If I present him with two options, he will invariably try to get both. If I try to offer him spaghetti or pizza for dinner, for example, he'll say "spaghetti and pizza!" He's either a horribly indecisive child or a budding logical prodigy, but I'm not sure which.

To be fair to him, though, many of us dislike making choices, especially when we have the nagging feeling that we're being presented with a false dilemma. When purchasing laptops, consumers are often asked to choose between devices that can play games capably and devices that are truly portable. But why? With all of the recent emphasis on power efficiency from Intel and Nvidia, why can't we have laptops that are both powerful and portable?

With the Aero 15 gaming notebook, Gigabyte appears to be letting gamers have their cake and eat it, too. Within a slim and light package, the Aero 15 packs some serious gaming hardware. Add to that the promise of all-day battery life, and Gigabyte's latest notebook starts to look like a "best of both worlds" device that's equally effective as a portable productivity machine and a plugged-in gaming rig.