so as a followup to our video showing some of the top gaming desktops that we
saw at CES 2015 we wanted to do a top
gaming notebooks one because actually I feel like some of the amazing notebook
technology that we saw this week is even better than what we saw on the desktop
so uh without further Ado here we go
could this be one of our top gaming laptops of CES this year is this even a
laptop I mean this thing weighs what 4.7 kg it's got a massive 18.4 in 1080p
display and it is big like oh look at it
it is thick look at this thing this is the gt80 Titan SLI and this is a whole
new concept as far as gaming laptops are concerned it's got a core i7 4980 HQ
processor dual NVIDIA GTX 980m 8 gig
graphics cards did I mention that MSI is committing to offer mxm upgrade modules
for at least two generations that are compatible with this as well as a
cooling solution it supports up to four
DDR3 modules for a total of 32 gigs of RAM up to four m.2 SATA ssds in raid
zero in addition to a 2 and 1 half inch hard drive it's got their killer
networking so it's got 2x2 AC as well as wired networking it's got a 1080p webcam
but the real killer app for this one is aside from the upgradeability so you can
actually access all those components I was talking about before the optical
drive for m. MSA m.2 as well as two of
the dims the other two are on the bottom and the 2 and 1/2 in Drive aside from
upgradeability it is this guy right here this is a Cherry MX Brown mechanical
gaming keyboard built right into this notebook and what is a true Marvel about
this is it actually maintains the same profile off the desk as a regular
mechanical gaming keyboard is this the most practical thing ever would it make
more sense to carry around a mechanical gaming keyboard with you whenever you had to travel with your system I will
leave that up to you guys but is definitely a oneof a-kind piece of
machinery and something that will appeal to some folks out there I know this for
a fact continuing our tour of the top gaming notebooks of CES 2015 out of
everything that Gigabyte had on display this is the one that really stood out to
me not only does it have a core i7 quad core processor and it's you know got
this extremely slim form factor great mix of IO with four USB 3 ports dual
HDMI mini DisplayPort out it's got a glass touch pad it's got actually a
fairly nice chicklet keyboard with a full number pad and macro Keys over on
the left it's got a 3K or optionally a 4K nonn that's an EXO display on top of
all that stuff .9 in thin it's got
GeForce GTX 965m graphics cards in SLI
yes this is a dual GPU SLI notebook in an extremely slim form factor and it
packs a bunch of other stuff in there too instead of compromising the way that we see thin and light gaming notebooks
do a lot of the time it doesn't have any limitations in terms of storage you've
got up to three m.2 ssds supported along
with a 2 and 1 half in hard drive and it doesn't compromise on memory with up to
four DDR3 sodium supported for a total of 32 gigs of RAM our next notebook is a
little bit of an unusual one yeah it features a core i7 quad core 4870hq
processor yeah it's got 16 gigs of RAM it can hold up to two ssds and raid zero
13.3 in IPS display backlit chicklet
keyboard beautiful super slim
lightweight design and Iris Graphics well hold on a second
lonus that doesn't sound like much of a gaming notebook well the real magic for
this one happens in the box underneath it at the back of this notebook is a
little flap that covers a full PCI Express 16x slot PCI Express 16x gen 3
so this is desktop class connectivity to
this box down below that not only has additional USB as well as killer
Ethernet and audio ports but also a cooling fan a 450 W power supply and
room for any desktop graphics card you
could pretty much want MSI is saying you'll have support for any MSI GPU and
any reference GPU from either NVIDIA or AMD and all you got to do is power down
the system slide it into this locking
dock right here power power it back up and boom you are outputting from what
they've got in here is a GTX uh 980 if I
recall correctly you output to an external Monitor and you are having a
desktop grade gaming experience except when you want to pick it up and be on
the go and then you have a super lightweight
notebook did I mention it's called The gs30 Shadow I don't think I did but
that's what it's called so we found our next sick gaming notebook in the Intel
performance notebook Suite I mean imagine finding some high performance
notebooks there this is the HP Omen 15 so it's a 15.6 in 1080P model with a
full 10-point multi-touch touch screen for me personally that is something that
I do really appreciate it's got a core I 7471 HQ it's got a GeForce GTX 86m SSD
uh I think this particular one has 8 gigs of RAM and okay so those specs
don't sound really that amazing for me this one is more about the look aside
from the very stri in material choices
that HP has made for this one with the textured back cover as well as the sort
of the angular shape to the way that it sits on the desk you've actually got
this is kind of cool lights that illuminate in the surprisingly loud and
clear speakers along the right hand edges you've got a red back lit keyboard
a super like Mega wide touchpad that is
incredibly pleasing to use and then on the bottom itself let's go ahead and
close this bad boy you've got basically an entirely perforated surface along the
entire back of the notebook that keeps it nice and cool it's got a rubber ring
around the bottom so it doesn't slip around when you're using it on your desk
and this is actually something that I appreciate more than maybe even more
than I should so there's two rear exhaust vents at the back in addition to
power in four USB 3.0 ports HDMI out
mini DisplayPort out and a headphone jack I really like having IO at the rear
I find so many notebook makers put iio on the right especially USB ports like
if they're only on the right then I find they get in the way of your mouse hand
if you want to actually game with the thing by plugging in a mouse for HP the
only thing on the right hand side is an SD card slot and other than that it is
completely clean around the outside of the notebook now this little number
right here is a pretty normal looking gaming notebook it's got a 15.6 in 1080P
display it's got an Intel Core i7 4710 HQ processor that's a quad core it's got
a GeForce GTX 970m or an R9 295 XM in
there for the GPU up to 16 gigs of RAM an m.2 SSD for storage along with a 2
and 1 half in hard drive and a pretty typical I/O configuration some lighting
effects it's not like hyper thin or anything like that
say at the back that's not a standard
looking IO thing that is a port for alien wear's Graphics amplifier the box
that's sitting right next to it so what this does is it's a proprietary
connector that that features a PCI Express gen 3 Forex link as well as some
other Tom Foolery to give your notebook both expanded iio so additional USB
ports I'm pretty sure that's the only thing they got back here yeah some additional USB ports as well as a full
PCI Express 16x graphics card slot
inside the box that is powered by a 375 wat power supply so the demo they're
running right here actually has this notebook running Shadow of Mordor with a
GTX 9 80 desktop graphics card powering
this 4K display and running through the system so the system is only acting as
CPU memory storage actually everything except the GPU where this one takes over
for whatever mobile GPU would normally have in the laptop well I hope you guys
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