MSI Intros "World's Thinnest, Lightest" 17-inch Gaming Laptop

[exfileme]

Here's another "world's lightest and thinnest" gaming laptop.

MSI Intros "World's Thinnest, Lightest" 17-inch Gaming Laptop : Read more

 

[classzero]

Starting price at 1799.99, windows consumers don't want to pay $500 for a laptop

 

[cscott_it]

Uninspired for the price point. Shaving off a pound or two will make it lighter, but any gaming laptop is still going to be big and heavy relative to every other laptop. More to the point, given the specs, I don't see these moving off the shelves like hotcakes when you can get essentially the same laptop for much less.

@classzero
You know this is a gaming laptop, right? It's a successful niche product.

Quick edit: At .85 inches, I wonder about the thermals after prolonged "heavy" usage. I know that with laptops this size it will sit on a desk, but having previously owned a gaming laptop or two (the joys of being traveling for work) - they can be annoyingly noisy.

 

[hitman40]

Starting price at 1799.99, windows consumers don't want to pay $500 for a laptop

But they do for gaming laptops.

You know, all this talk of horsepower, and they don't even brag about the thing people will spend 100% of their time looking at, the display. I'm betting it's a typically crappy TFT screen without even 95% color gamut, slapped on with the 1080p FULL HD Sticker ooommgggg.

Plus, Windows laptops have poor resale value since PC's are spec based unlike Apple where they have extremely good resale value. That combined with the fact that it's $1700 and by the time you are done using it, you'll get little money back, not a good buy for me.

 

[lunyone]

I think this is to combat Razers thin gaming laptop, IMHO.

 

[christop]

I Am shocked it doesn't weight 20 lbs or so.

 

[chumly]

I would take the two SSD out of RAID 0, put my OS on one, and store my games/programs on the other. It doesn't make sense to run them in RAID, given that we know there will not be a real world performance gain. In fact, the random I/O performance will be much much better if the two are separate, and for the purpose of gaming, it would better suit the system to separate the OS disk and the disk with the game, as is always the case.

 

[joe nate]

The 1799 one is better. With out trim support on raid arrays the benefit of raid 0 quickly loses out after reasonable use without running an optimizer all the time.

 

[dalethepcman]

Without a touch screen or Leap Motion, windows 8 is not worth installing. My opinion, save your pennies for an asus laptops with leap built in, or buy Windows 7.

 

[danwat1234]

Interesting that they are using the 4700HQ rather than the 4700MQ, a soldered rather than socketed CPU so it uses less space. But you can't upgrade to an extreme CPU like in the GT60/GT70 2oc/2od laptops.
Dual fans rather than the single super powerful 12V fan in the GT60/GT70.

I don't understand Asus with their G750 flagship heavy gaming laptop, it also has the 4700HQ rather than a socketed CPU, but for no reason! It's a big laptop.

 

[halcyon]

Interesting that they are using the 4700HQ rather than the 4700MQ, a soldered rather than socketed CPU so it uses less space. But you can't upgrade to an extreme CPU like in the GT60/GT70 2oc/2od laptops.
Dual fans rather than the single super powerful 12V fan in the GT60/GT70.

I don't understand Asus with their G750 flagship heavy gaming laptop, it also has the 4700HQ rather than a socketed CPU, but for no reason! It's a big laptop.

Is the HQ less expensive?

 

[edwd2]

Id rather go clevo at this price. 5.7pounds isnt much lighter than your midrange performance laptop.

 

[Cons29]

gaming laptops (bulky ones) or even laptops in general are hot enough as it is. trimming down in size should bump things up a notch. cant imagine myself getting a 'gaming' laptop

 

[GreaseMonkey_62]

"an SD card reader is provided for additional storage." - really if you top out the storage space provided in either model an SD card isn't going to cut it. At that point it's either time to delete stuff or get an external hard drive.

 

[alexandermcnight]

cool stuff...great article!
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