Asus to reveal thinnest GTX1080 laptop?

[NumLock21]

Speculations is going around that Asus might reveal their thinnest laptop at this years CES. Model of that laptop is Asus ROG GX501 and inside packs a Intel Kaby Lake quad core processor,  24GB of ram, NVMe SSD, 4K display, and a GTX1080. This 15.6 inch laptop will have a thickness of 16.65mm, a lot thinner than the Razer Blade Pro which has a thickness of 22.5mm.

 

 

http://laptopmedia.com/news/asus-rog-gx501-is-the-thinnest-laptop-with-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-just-16-65-mm/

[VerticalDiscussions]

Well, thats gonna be one light sucker uh? Would be good to see portable and lightweight, not portable and heavyweight for once :p.

[VerticalDiscussions]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

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Thing is, you just cant get a good enough lithium-ion/lithium-polymer battery inside a "gaming" laptop without making it over 8kg and vastly surpassing any safety and travel limitations...

[Guest Kloaked]

Ooooh look! It's retarded.

[Guest Kloaked]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

?

Yes.

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, VerticalDiscussions said:

Thing is, you just cant get a good enough lithium-ion/lithium-polymer battery inside a "gaming" laptop without making it over 8kg and vastly surpassing any safety and travel limitations...

Yes, which is why many gaming laptops either pack the high end and have some heft, or go for thin & light by going a bit conservative with the component selection.

ASUS wants the best of both worlds, and will get neither.

[Princess Luna]

It looks ugly.

[Guest]

Year 2034 a laptop capable of 4k game at 60fps that as thin as a paper

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

What the hell is up with the keyboard layout? A lot of things about it is not making any sense at all to me.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Colonel_Gerdauf said:

What the hell is up with the keyboard layout? A lot of things about it is not making any sense at all to me.

It's likely that the cooler takes up the space that would traditionally be occupied by the keyboard, to avoid thermal throttling during the most mundane tasks.

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

I'd rather portable with actual battery life

 

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

20 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

It's likely that the cooler takes up the space that would traditionally be occupied by the keyboard, to avoid thermal throttling during the most mundane tasks.

But I am not just talking about the odd position of the keyboard itself (which is not justified, as it does not appear to be mechanical):

 

- The numpad is capacitive; that does more harm than good.

- There is no telling what is below the numpad and what it is useful for. Is it trying to copy Apple or IBM here?

- I can only assume that the two slots at the far sides of the keyboard are vent holes, a very inconvenient eyesore.

- You can tell with the odd shape of the spacebar that it is trying to imitate desktop-style ergonomics... why?

- There are rings in the WASD, Q, E, and R keys which I assume is for backlighting. Does Asus expect every gamer to be playing Overwatch?

- The special keys at the top are uncomfortably close to the rest of the keyboard.

[DarkBlade2117]

The keyboard design.. Is..

I have no words.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Colonel_Gerdauf said:

But I am not just talking about the odd position of the keyboard itself (which is not justified, as it does not appear to be mechanical):

 

- The numpad is capacitive; that does more harm than good.

- There is no telling what is below the numpad and what it is useful for. Is it trying to copy Apple or IBM here?

-  I can only assume that the two slots at the far sides of the keyboard are vent holes, a very inconvenient eyesore.

- You can tell with the odd shape of the spacebar that it is trying to imitate desktop-style ergonomics... why?

- There are rings in the WASD, Q, E, and R keys which I assume is for backlighting.

- The special keys at the top are uncomfortably close to the rest of the keyboard.

Feels more likely those vent holes would be speakers. And the numpad would probably function like the old razer deathstalker or the new touchbar on the macbook.

8 minutes ago, Colonel_Gerdauf said:

Does Asus expect every gamer to be playing Overwatch?

Poorly raised kids and morons dont play MMOs. Shooters and MOBAs is where the dough is.

[patrickjp93]

27 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Wouldn't it be better to do a thicker laptop that can manage to cool both processor and CPU to reasonable temps? =/ 

Airflow has much more to do with that than thickness.

[suicidalfranco]

It's retarded. That should be enough of a review

[The Belgian Waffle]

1) Ugly as fuck

2) Ugly as fuck

3) 30 minutes of battery life

3) Ugly as fuck

[Magnetorheological]

Will there be a pan attachment option for you to cook an egg on? That top part looks perfect for searing stuff.

[Kamina]

Looks dumb.

[Syfes]

1 hour ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

I'd rather portable with actual battery life

Meh, you can plug in a charger almost anywhere. I'd be perfectly happy with less weight and some 30 minutes of battery life. Would suit me just fine.

[Techicolors]

I wonder how thermals will be handled, and how long it'll maintain peak performance, especially with that 4K monitor. 

[MageTank]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: A GTX 1080 that throttles to the point of it being a GTX 1060, because thin is better, right? Right?

 

This is getting out of control. Nobody realistically expects 165w of heat to be properly dissipated in that thing, on heatpipes and thin fans alone, right? They are going to need a custom vapor chamber or something, and even then, it's still going to throttle. My CPU at 4.2ghz, undervolted to 1.13v still pushes 130w under AVX2 load, and my 92 x 92 x 42mm vapor chamber still struggles to keep this thing under thermal junction in a Node 202, while actually being rated for 135w. Mark my words, this 1080 is going to throttle beyond recognition. 

 

This isn't even factoring in the space that will also have to be saved for the CPU cooler and battery, so the movement of that keyboard isn't entirely for the cooling solution (unless the battery is under that keyboard, which will mean even less potential battery life).

 

I'd much rather see a thin and light netbook with Intel's GT4e inside, and reserve most of the space for battery, instead of trying to turn a gaming machine into a mobile device, and failing at both. You don't need 1080p and 4k screens on a 12/13 inch device, a 720p screen at that size still has 122PPI, while your average 21 inch 1080p display has only 105. 

[2FA]

I don't understand why they design such high end gaming notebooks with weird twists like this. It leads to a price point that makes it so that sales will be very low which means little profit. I honestly feel like some of the engineers get bored so they work on stupid designs that company somehow thinks is a good idea.

[Techicolors]

I feel like this laptop is a bit like hypercars: it's a test of the limits of (albeit ridiculous) engineering and its admittedly intriguing how all the tech comes together, but in reality little to no one can get close to owning one or trying one out, with no restrictions, in their lifetime. i know that for this laptop, comparing it to a hypercar is way out of league of an actual hypercar, but i can't help but see the similarities. 

[PlayStation 2]

This frankly looks pointless as a legitimate laptop.