MSI GT80S Titan SLI Gaming Laptop First Look

[turkey3_scratch]

Woo it actually has 60 minutes of battery life. Where did they find room for the car battery?

I'm not even sure a car battery could power that thing. :lol:

Likely powered by a battery somewhere in the region of 90whr. However, my car with two batteries, has 950CCA each. Not even similar.

Whr is a unit of energy, CCA is current. Doesn't really make sense comparing the two numbers.

Well I was hoping to not spoon feed anybody.

Look up something called ohms law. There are lots of relationships, via simple math for you to explore.

TJ Hooker is a very intelligent person. I'm quite confident he is aware of Ohm's law 😉

 

[TJ Hooker]

Thank you turkey3_scratch

@eriko I am well aware of Ohm's Law, but please, humuor me. Would you explain to me how one would derive the energy capacity of a battery from (cold cranking) amperage using Ohm's Law?

 

[vaughn2k]

I applaud it's specs.. but not the price... 😉

 

[cknobman]

Conclusion: It is absolutely stupid to put that much graphics horsepower in a system with a 1080p display. It completely defeats the purpose of, and wastes, all that graphical horsepower.

 

[cmi86]

980 SLI and a 1080P display in a $4,600 "laptop" ??? At 10lbs it might as well just be a desktop since the only way it can push an appropriate resolution is when connected to an external display. Not that 4K would have completely justified the dis-functional proportions and battery life of this thing, but it would have at lease been appropriate.
This thing is completely pointless. Completely.

 

[hoofhearted]

Something to be said for being able to play Witcher 3 in that hotel room at night while on travel.

 

[ledhead11]

Something to be said for being able to play Witcher 3 in that hotel room at night while on travel.

It's true. Even my 'last years model' rocks it at 1080p but now it seems I'm f***ed for any 4k action since Nvidia said its not going to do a mobile 1080, which I was waiting for. Bottom line, don't buy any of this crap if it doesn't support the desktop version MXM GPU's. They said they'd support 2 years of the M versions and one year in, they're saying no already. As if I wasn't already feeling burned by the 4k promises of the 970/980's now again with the MXM's 3.0.

 

[ledhead11]

TBH, I'm not sure I'd trust any laptop GPU solution now that so many dev's are working on 'dock' solutuions. It's the way of the future baby!

p.s. some of these dock solutions are now pushing 700w which is more than enough for even the highest current/forthcoming cards of 2016.

 

[LostAlone]

4500$ for an SLI laptop? The mechanical keyboard and the access to component is great, however, all this doesn't worth 4500$.

Discrete GPU is the way to go for laptop with thunderbolt.

This gets so boring to reply to....

Some of us WORK ON THE ROAD, and can ONLY HAVE A LAPTOP.

There, see now? Its not possible to carry extra screen, GPU, or whatever YOU think a traveling user should have.

There isn't just this laptop, desktops and nothing else in between you braying jackass.

The point that everyone here is making is that this thing is so expensive and so ungainly and aimed seemingly at no-one. You can get a fine gaming laptop for $1500 that is more than adequate for playing in your hotel room. You can buy a Surface Pro or equivalent and have a machine that'll run almost every indie game going.

Just because you can't carry a screen around doesn't mean that this is your only option. If you want power you can get it cheaper. If you want something mobile you can get it cheaper. If you want something mobile and something else powerful you can get both of those and treat yourself to ice cream too without spending this budget.

I travel for work a lot but I bought a second hand Surface Pro 2 and play Isaac and FTL and Spelunky. It turns out that I really don't need POWER to twiddle away an hour or so in the hotel room.

 

[ledhead11]

4500$ for an SLI laptop? The mechanical keyboard and the access to component is great, however, all this doesn't worth 4500$.

Discrete GPU is the way to go for laptop with thunderbolt.

This gets so boring to reply to....

Some of us WORK ON THE ROAD, and can ONLY HAVE A LAPTOP.

There, see now? Its not possible to carry extra screen, GPU, or whatever YOU think a traveling user should have.

There isn't just this laptop, desktops and nothing else in between you braying jackass.

The point that everyone here is making is that this thing is so expensive and so ungainly and aimed seemingly at no-one. You can get a fine gaming laptop for $1500 that is more than adequate for playing in your hotel room. You can buy a Surface Pro or equivalent and have a machine that'll run almost every indie game going.

Just because you can't carry a screen around doesn't mean that this is your only option. If you want power you can get it cheaper. If you want something mobile you can get it cheaper. If you want something mobile and something else powerful you can get both of those and treat yourself to ice cream too without spending this budget.

I travel for work a lot but I bought a second hand Surface Pro 2 and play Isaac and FTL and Spelunky. It turns out that I really don't need POWER to twiddle away an hour or so in the hotel room.

Man, I don't want to get in a war with you but comparing games that cross between pacman and mario bro's don't even compare to cutting edge like Witcher3, Fallout 4, GTAV, Rise of Tomb Raider, Doom(2016), Metro Redux's, Crysis3, Assassin Creed IV-V and many other games these things will rock @ 60fps 1080p. A used surface-pro2 ain't gonna come close. Are they over priced? H*ll yes. Will a $1500 laptop/tablet even tap 60/1080p at max DX11/12 setttings? H*ll no. Heck, even if you go full on w/ a new pro3 fully loaded you're 2/3 of the way in and outside of a better screen(I admit MSI blew it not giving either 2k/144hz or 4k/60hz) its still won't match all the other specs and benchmarks. If so, show it!

Not arguing the price but try and build a "laptop" with these specs on your own and you're still pushing $2-3000 between the 2 980's(which btw have more Vram than the desktop versions), MOBO, SSD's, DDR4 RAM. Bottom line is that these things get built because there is a market. All first time cutting edge, niche markets are expensive, maybe you don't remember when a 40" flatscreen cost over $10k even though now you can get one for less than $300 or the 128GB SSD's that cost over $500 or the DDR4 memory that 2 years ago was almost double. Point is new tech always cost ridiculous amounts and prices only drop when they reach a mass consumption level.

People need to understand that unless they can prove there's a like for like alternative that's cheaper these things will get bought and continue. From MSI, to Gigabye(Aorus), to Razor, and others the pricing schemes are similar: single 970M(1500-2500), single 980M(25-3000), dual 970M'S(2800-3200), dual 980M's(3000-4000), dual desktop 980's(4000+). BTW for those who don't know the M's(mobile) are usually equivalent to 1-2 steps back in desktop terms(i.e. a 970m is like a gtx950-960). Again, don't compare a Camry to a Viper. Both are fine, but neither is in the same class.

The best alternative thing I've seen to any of this are the new GPU docking solutions(some now with nearly 700w power) coming out which are also way overpriced but are exciting for low-cost latops with good battery life but then giving a much closer desktop experience when plugged in. Basically you can buy a 1000-1500 laptop, 500-600 docking, and then upgrade your GPU's like a desktop as desired.