HP's New Gaming Laptop Will Outperform Most High-End Desktops

Hmm, after doing some digging it would seem the starting model is 2k not 1.200, which is a massive difference. Knew it sounded too good to be true.

May I preorder 2 of these bad boyz . f xbox x..........................

ok im lieing but wouldnt mind to own one of these.

I wouldn’t pay 500$ for it just based on appearance alone. Why is it so hard to just make a regular laptop with quality materials, & specs that can play games?

I can understand having all the extra vents n stuff but even consoles these days are more aesthetically pleasing & mature looking than all these “gaming” laptops.

"Back in my day" you had to pay Alienware $7,000 to build a laptop that was this on par with PC gaming, and the battery would last 20 minutes when unplugged and it'd burn and bruise your legs if you set it on your lap.

Seriously though, that's really good specs for a laptop and while I'm no longer in the position to desire a gaming capable laptop, I do remember building Alienware laptops on their site and laughing at the price back in the day (read, before Dell bought them) and man this is no where near that price point. I'd be interested if this trend in price reduction for super high-end laptops continues and what that'll mean on the greater PC market.

The $1.2k option seems to have good enough hardware to me, but what about weight, maximum heat and battery life? These are killer factors to me, since if it's too heavy, it'll be too much of a pain to carry, if it heats up too much I can't use it on my lap, and if the battery life is crap, then I wouldn't even bother having a laptop in the first place.

So it'll outperfom high-end desktops while costing double/triple the price. Sweet deal.

There has been a 1070 Acer laptop for under 2k on newegg for a while now. Acer makes good laptops. HP doesn't.

Cue the forum complaints over spending $xxxx for a gaming laptop vs desktop parts in 5....4....3....2...

If I hit the lotto I am getting a new gaming laptop, I may consider this one.

HP tends to put garbage components in their systems. It's not really their fault. HP is a name that's synonymous with budget PCs, so they cut corners to make the system seem like a really good deal. But they're never going to make a mass produced system that can compete with a custom-built rig.

@sellingthings: That was a typo on my part. Pricing starts at $1,199 for a model with GTX 1070.

I think mine will still perform better. I have a GTX 1080 TI, 32 GB DDR4 RAM@ 2400 MHZ, I7 6700K. That lack of 1080 TI is killing that machines potential. A 1080 TI is quite drastically more powerful than a 1080. 4K screen with a 1080 will be a 30-45 fps nightmare. No thanks, I prefer my 1440p 144 HZ Gsync display instead. HD AND high frame rate. WIN WIN.

Terrible advice. I built a high end desktop (with a GTX 970) with all of these specs for $2,000 two years ago! About 3 months ago I changed my GPU to a 1080ti once it was released. I estimate that the total cost of my current build is around $1,600 or slightly more. Add in my XB280HK screen (4K, g-sync, 60 HZ) I have had for a year at around $600.

You should be able to get something similar around $2000 or slightly more, which is basically their advertised $3,699 model laptop here with a smaller screen and worse GPU (about 20-30% less frames per second at 4K).

It beats most desktops but it also cost about 30-40% more for any given performance. It'll be interesting to see how it handles the heat if you oc that even close to what you can do on desktops.

I'm better off buying a used car and Xbox One X at this price

@pasullica: The delta between a GTX 980 and a 980M was about 40 percent from my testing, but the performance gap is MUCH closer with 10-series GPUs that have dropped the "M" moniker.

and then I read everywhere that the Xbox One X is expensive...