Remember the days long gone where you could actually use a laptop as a laptop? When they used to be capable of light to moderate gaming and wouldn’t cause a hernia or scoliosis as you tried to lift them up and move them around? Well at Computex this year NVIDIA announced a brand new design termed MAX-Q which will once again, make laptops great again.
Gone shall be the days when gaming laptops more resemble construction equipment in shape, size and weight. With NVIDIA’s new design they intend to deliver the best possible gaming experience on laptops in the ultrabook form factor. They are claiming that this new design will make laptops 3X thinner and 3X more powerful as well. Imagine that your new ultrabook, that weighs around 1.5 Kgs, is 20 mm thick and houses a GTX 1080, yes, that’s right folks, the future is finally here! The only company which was making gaming ultra books thus far had been Razer with their uber popular Blade series. However, even then, the best GPU configuration those laptops came with was the 1060, and any laptop with anything more powerful would look like a cinder-block with fancy LEDs.
These laptops are set to roll out starting on June 27, 2017, and most likely will start with tier 1 markets like the United States and Canada and should make their way down to India sometime in late Q2 or early Q3 of 2017. Almost all leading gaming laptop manufacturers have announced that they will be bringing their own models based on the new architecture, these include industry leaders like ASUS, Acer, MSI, Alienware, Lenovo, HP and the likes.
One word of caution though, seeing as this is brand new proprietary tech, don’t expect it to come cheap. However, for those who can afford these, it’ll be the answer to the age old question that most college students ask in forums across the internet, Desktop or PC, well with these, the answer is clear, you are getting the raw gaming power of the 1080 with the portability of an ultrabook. So laptop, lets just hope they can stay cool!
