Gigabyte's New P55K Gaming Laptop Features Nvidia GTX 965M, Intel Core i7 CPU

[exfileme]

Here's a new gaming laptop from Gigabyte.

Gigabyte's New P55K Gaming Laptop Features Nvidia GTX 965M, Intel Core i7 CPU : Read more

 

[TechyInAZ]

Sweet. Gigabyte has the best reviews on its laptops. Hope this is another good one.

 

[soldier44]

Why even bother with mechanical hard drives in gaming laptops anymore? SSD should be standard now days. 5400 rpm really in 2015 is still an option...

 

[crabdog]

Also why do all "gaming" laptops come with i7 cpu. Tom's has been telling us for ages that an i5 can do the job just as well.

 

[dstarr3]

Why even bother with mechanical hard drives in gaming laptops anymore? SSD should be standard now days. 5400 rpm really in 2015 is still an option...

Any laptop that ships with a mechanical hard drive should at least have two drive bays so you can have an SSD for the OS/programs and the mechanical serving as storage only.

 

[theDoItYourselfAmeture]

Also why do all "gaming" laptops come with i7 cpu. Tom's has been telling us for ages that an i5 can do the job just as well.

Mobile i5's are duel core hyper threaded processors, only the i7s are quad core. for some games mobile i5's are enough, but you really need a quad core these days to fully enjoy that 965m. hopefully in the future it may change.

 

[CRITICALThinker]

And of course there are a ton of cool laptops being released now...

 

[Au_equus]

Also why do all "gaming" laptops come with i7 cpu. Tom's has been telling us for ages that an i5 can do the job just as well.

mobile cpu sku's are different from their desktop counterparts. In addition to what was mentioned, some mobile i7 are also HT dual core CPUs, but the Q suffix denotes a quad core sku.

 

[jrharbort]

As a quick note, the i7 4720HQ has an operating frequency of 2.6GHz/3.6GHz, not 2.5GHz/3.6GHz.

 

[jasonelmore]

now that IPS 1080p is becomming common place, when can we expect to see the next evolution of screens? OLED Baby.

Once i saw OLED, everything else looks 10 years old

 

[ps3hacker12]

What I don't understand s why does this latop have half the battery of a standard tablet (iPad 4 say for example) ?!?

 

[CRITICALThinker]

What I don't understand s why does this latop have half the battery of a standard tablet (iPad 4 say for example) ?!?

The reason is because they are less power efficient, but also much more powerful and versatile. The screen is also bigger which uses more battery.

 

[Vlad Rose]

What I don't understand s why does this latop have half the battery of a standard tablet (iPad 4 say for example) ?!?

It be like saying why doesn't my Ferrari have as good of gas mileage as my Ford Focus. Gaming laptops are quite a bit more powerful than tablets; which are about as powerful as Atom based computers.

 

[Grenate]

Ouch. You really should have stuck with the Seagate. Western Digital is flat out terrible. Seagate is hardly any better but I can say without a douvt that WD is the worst of the more trusted HD manufacturers. Have literally never owned a hard drive from them, in the past 15 years, that didn't die prematurely.

 

[dstarr3]

Ouch. You really should have stuck with the Seagate. Western Digital is flat out terrible. Seagate is hardly any better but I can say without a douvt that WD is the worst of the more trusted HD manufacturers. Have literally never owned a hard drive from them, in the past 15 years, that didn't die prematurely.

And I've had the opposite experience. Every WD drive I've bought have lasted well beyond their life expectancy, and every Seagate I've ever bought failed almost immediately. So I don't know what to tell you.

 

[CRITICALThinker]

Just a question, but where did this argument come from? Neither of these brands have been mentioned in this thread or article, and many notebook hard drives are other brands...

 

[Nuckles_56]

Just a question, but where did this argument come from? Neither of these brands have been mentioned in this thread or article, and many notebook hard drives are other brands...

It came from the above article

 

[CRITICALThinker]

Just a question, but where did this argument come from? Neither of these brands have been mentioned in this thread or article, and many notebook hard drives are other brands...

It came from the above article

Nowhere in the thread or article are seagate or western digital mentioned before grenate's comment. this is about a gaming laptop, not a hard drive mishap

 

[Nuckles_56]

Just a question, but where did this argument come from? Neither of these brands have been mentioned in this thread or article, and many notebook hard drives are other brands...

It came from the above article

Nowhere in the thread or article are seagate or western digital mentioned before grenate's comment. this is about a gaming laptop, not a hard drive mishap

It came from this story, when when you are reading through Tom's, is right above this article

 

[artk2219]

Ouch. You really should have stuck with the Seagate. Western Digital is flat out terrible. Seagate is hardly any better but I can say without a douvt that WD is the worst of the more trusted HD manufacturers. Have literally never owned a hard drive from them, in the past 15 years, that didn't die prematurely.

And I've had the opposite experience. Every WD drive I've bought have lasted well beyond their life expectancy, and every Seagate I've ever bought failed almost immediately. So I don't know what to tell you.

Thats why i used to be all over Samsung drives, unfortunately seagate bought out their HDD division 5 years ago or so. They used to make very fast super reliable drives, as it stands now I cant recommend any one brand over the other. They all have some decent drives and some crap drives, its just luck of the draw.