Maingear Introduces Ultra-Thin Pulse 17 Gaming Notebook Discussion

Maingear announces the launch of the Pulse 17, the world's thinnest 17" gaming notebook.

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I wish we'd stop with these "gaming" notebooks with a Geforce 765. That's not a bad chip, but it can't max out today's games, and we're on the verge of requirements skyrocketing as we go from the current gen to next gen consoles.

A Geforce GTX 680 or better is more powerful than the Playstation 4 (much less Xbox One), but from past experience you'll need to significantly exceed those specs sooner or later just to run the same games well. (The Geforce 9650GT is on paper slightly better than the current gen console's specs, and it started out that way, but years in games that are optimized just fine for the consoles don't run reasonably at all on that...even that Star Wars MMO doesn't run).

Just seems like a GTX 780 should be standard issue...

 

I'd like to know if the display is IPS...

 

Sounds like it's going to be expensive..

Nvm..saw the price at the bottom - $2099 :/

 

I don't understand the point of thin gaming laptops!

 

Put a GTX 780 in a chassis this thin-and-light and heat will kill your laptop pronto. There's a place for Alienware and Clevo two-inch-thick bricks, and they're for gamers like you who are willing to live with a ten-pound beast of a laptop in order to play games at FHD. But there's also a place for a relatively thin-and-light laptop that can play modern games fluidly, albeit at HD instead of FHD, that is pleasant to carry-around day-to-day for all the non-gaming things you do on their laptop.

Choice is good, and this is an appropriate GPU for the chassis it's in.

So that you can comfortably carry it day-to-day for non-gaming purposes but also play games on it in the evening, instead of having to purchase two dedicated devices. It's a jack-of-all-trades solution.

 

Alternatively, after the first few minutes the system will start to throttle in order to prevent damaging temperatures, or the fans will sound like jet engines as they frantically try to push enough air through the cooling system to keep below the throttling temperatures.

John