Gigabyte announces the P55K gaming laptop

[Bouzoo]

Gigabyte just announced it's new gaming laptop, and I think it looks quite good. 

 

Gigabyte introduced a new line of gaming laptops this week, starting with the P55K. This laptop has a 15.6-inch screen with wide viewing angles and a 1920 x 1080 resolution. Powering this screen is Intel's Core i7-4720HQ (2.5 GHz/3.6 GHz) processor, up to 16 GB of DDR3L RAM and up to Nvidia's GeForce GTX 965M with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM. All of this runs on a 6400 mAh battery.

 

On the storage front, the P55K includes a 2.5-inch HDD slot that has a 7200 RPM drive (1 TB) or a 5400 RPM drive (500 GB to 2 TB), depending on the configuration. The laptop also has an mSATA slot supporting an SSD capacity of 128 GB to 512 GB. The laptop's actual storage capacity will depend on the country and region it is sold, the company indicated.

 

 

One of the features highlighting Gigabyte's laptop is a full-range backlit Chiclet keyboard with 0.09-inch key travel, allowing the user to type in a dark room (or gaming cave). The laptop also features what Gigabyte calls the LAN Optimizer, which prioritizes data packets based on the user's settings. This presumably means that users can select gaming data to be more important than streaming Netflix.

 

 

And here we are again with 2GB of VRAM. I hope that dies soon. And maybe 970m and physicial mouse buttons (I hate them)? But that's just me.

 

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-notebook-gaming-nvidia-intel,29066.html

[Thought]

I wonder what the odds are that they'll launch a higher end version if it with hopefully a 1440p screen and a 980m. It looks thick enough to cool very well, and has a good keyboard layout. I like it.

[Lolzious]

WOW ANOTHER GAMING LAPTOP ILL NEVER BUY :0

I wish companies like Gigabyte would focus more on value laptops, since most people just buy them for browsing the inerwebz while they're oot and aboot (as we say in a Canada)

[Agent181]

WOOW another laptop that nobody will buy at all

[crystal6tak]

Until quadcore broadwell/skylake laptops comes out. Not interested 

[ForsakenLive]

This doesn't look that great.

I'll keep waiting for something like a HP Omen 15 with a 970m

[asim1999]

Here is the official review by HardwareCanucks:

EDIT: DERP, my bad wrong laptop.

 

I would like to see a 980m sli version 

[harrynowl]

I read P55 and thought someone had dug up some really old LGA1156 news

 

But I think manufacturers are beginning to flood the market with gaming laptops at this point.

[linuxfan66]

I read P55 and thought someone had dug up some really old LGA1156 news

 

But I think manufacturers are beginning to flood the market with gaming laptops at this point.

I dont exactly think its bad thing is it may raise expected laptop gpu performance for the whole market which would be nice.

[MrDynamicMan]

Only 965m? What is that? Gm204?

And also, At this point it seems companies are to laptops what AMD is/used to be to cores: they just keep shouting MOOOOAAAARRR!

Seriously, no-one is interested in yet another mid range gaming laptop, there should be a law that limits companies to three laptops. Anymore and they have to burn their moneydollars . Period.

[TroubleKlef]

Do I see a VGA output? 

[Misanthrope]

Seems like an ok laptop if they manage 1200 or less. Most laptops except extremely light ones should come with a half way decent gpu.

[Rekx]

No SSD. No Thanks.

[Sanctuary2808]

P55K sounds like the name of a gun lol

[TacticlTwinkie]

Do I see a VGA output? 

vga outputs still have their uses, but I don't see many taking a fancy pants gaming laptop to a boardroom to do a meeting on the projector. It does seem out of place on this particular laptop.

[Warcony]

Yet another standard gaming laptop. There isn't anything that sets this apart from the mass of 15.6 inch gaming laptops made by every vendor. I'd like to see a dock-able laptop from Gigabyte similar to the Alienware 13. 

[Entropy]

Thank the gods that they didn't follow with that ugly massive lower bezel fad. It looks very nice, but the GPU is a bit... Meh.

[NateGSR117]

Cool but I want at least a 970m for Confortable fps play on high or ultra.

[Alurit]

Do I see a VGA output? 

I think having a VGA on a laptop is still handy, schools and some businesses don't replace old, but expensive projectors if they still function properly

[TroubleKlef]

I think having a VGA on a laptop is still handy, schools and some businesses don't replace old, but expensive projectors if they still function properly

 

On a "gaming" laptop though? and aren't displayport to VGA cables plentiful and cheap these days?

[Mooshi]

These "gaming" laptops tend to have unusual specs given their intended purpose. i7's are great for editing, but for a mobile gaming device, why not a solid i5? Use the saved cash for the GPU -  what gamers care for. Obviously you can have it all for over 2500 dollars, but not everyone is willing to toss that much at a notebook. Seriously, i5 + SSD + decent mass storage + good gaming GPU is the wining combo for a mobile gaming device. Beyond that is mobile workstation which is a whole other beast all together.

 

Also not sure about the color. Feels like Gigabyte is sponsored by the Duracell battery corporation.

[Bouzoo]

These "gaming" laptops tend to have unusual specs given their intended purpose. i7's are great for editing, but for a mobile gaming device, why not a solid i5? Use the saved cash for the GPU -  what gamers care for. Obviously you can have it all for over 2500 dollars, but not everyone is willing to toss that much at a notebook. Seriously, i5 + SSD + decent mass storage + good gaming GPU is the wining combo for a mobile gaming device. Beyond that is mobile workstation which is a whole other beast all together.

 

Also not sure about the color. Feels like Gigabyte is sponsored by the Duracell battery corporation.

The thing is that mobile i5's are dual core, so if they were to change that then sure

[linuxfan66]

It seems to me mobile i7s are much cheaper than desktop i7s since even "budget" laptops can include them without major compromises.

[Alurit]

On a "gaming" laptop though? and aren't displayport to VGA cables plentiful and cheap these days?

unfortunately displayport isn't that widespread (basically that is the main reason that keeps me from buying a 4k tv (given the current 4k contents it would only be used For Academic Purposes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)), although I've seen a 110cm samsung 4k ips tv 560 euros that peaked my interest), and the thing also has a hdmi so it does have a digital out.