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TeaLeaf

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  #1979905 19-Mar-2018 15:02
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lNomNoml:

 

Not sure if you're being sarcastic haha, it may run at ultra in a year but definitely not comfortable framerate. This will easily be obsolete in 2 years’ time.

 

 

What game are you refering to? Most games now are being run off existing platforms, so all they work on is optimisation, not creating a new source code.

 

Probably the most taxing game is Witcher 3 which is 3 years old. Anything based on that platform may get taxing.

 

Gaming notebooks generally expect 3 years of good frame rates.

 

But define comfortable? Anything over 60fps is comfortable to me because my eyes dont distinguish anything over 50fps, some people can, some are placebo.

 

But the real point is, what do you expect, a graphics card that doesnt exist right now, you cant buy anything better than the 1080.......

 

Unless you are on about notebooks vs PC and dont understand notebook gaming, which I can understand, for most it doesnt make sense, but there is definitely a use case there for traveling gamers.

 

For me, I would personally love the Alienware 13 1440p touch OLED HDR 2018. I dont play anything a gtx1060 cant run at native 1440p. In fact something like LoL is going to be well into 150fps. Or Civ 6 which has always been very CPU intensive.

 

That OLED is like nothing else, well it is currently the only option. Its not cheap but $3k you can get 16G ram and 512GB NVME. And any game on ultra given the OLED looks, mind blowing.

 

Then there is the EDR implementation just to make things look even better for Netflix, Prime, YOutube HDR watches, HDR has a bigger impact on IQ than say 4k for movies, clearly both together in OLED on a portable notebook would be nice, but dreams are free. 1440p is the sweet spot anyway for notebooks imo, I think 4k is over kill and its more the quality of the 4k that makes the difference, i dont think the same 1440p quality disply would look any better at 4k display on a notebook.




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  #1994233 11-Apr-2018 12:08
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Amosnz:

 

I thought friends don't let friends buy Acer?  I've never been a fan of Acer in general and I've seen (possibly even on here) a couple of bad stories with predators so they haven't really been on my radar.

 

I looked at the specs and the Predator 15 at 3.7kg vs the RoG at 2.5kg is enough to put me off that model.  My current 8yo 15" laptop is 2.5kg which is manageable.

 

Why they think this is a good idea I don't know: 512 GB SSD (2x 256GB RAID).  In real world its hard to saturate 1x PCIE SSD, so raiding them unnecessarily sounds like a recipe for disaster.

 

 

How did you get on Amos?

 

This is another awesome device for travel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEV9MGrxbEU

 

I know what Dave is saying about brightness, Retina displays look nice, but like everything thats where it ends. 300 nits is still plenty and you have reasonable adobe RGB and full RGB levels.

 

Aero15x is just Gigabyte churning out more quality.

 

I think their are 4 players now in gaming, AW, ROG, GB, MSI and then some niche makers like Razer which I dont invest my time in.

 

Out of those GB Aero, ROG Zephyrus and MSI Stealth are the main players in thin and light gaming/content creation.

 

Whilst I still feel the Zephyrus is by far the best and perhaps ahead of its time, you can get a similar experience with the gtx1080 max-q on the Aero 15x at a much more affordable price ($3k AU) than the ROG Zephyrus but you get similar benefits.


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  #1994259 11-Apr-2018 13:47
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I ended up getting the ROG GL503VS I was looking at previously in that gaming laptop sale.  Glad I didn't wait till Easter as the Easter sale price didn't come close.

 

I'm really happy with it, looks\feels thinner than I expected and the 144hz screen is mint. Keyboard is nice to type on and touchpad responsive so very happy with inputs.

 

I've only played a few games on it so far (I still default to my 27" desktop screen while at home), but it had no issue running with hq settings.   Fans did get quite load but that's to be expected.

 

 





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