Introduction
The Gigabyte P37X is a particularly powerful 17-inch gaming laptop with a dual-SSD Raid array, fast quad-core CPU and Nvidia GTX 980M graphics card with 8GB of video memory.
With a 1080p screen that delivers superb picture quality, the P37X brings the experience of using a desktop PC to mobile computing.
Retailing at about £1799 (around $2200, AU$2800), it’s not exactly affordable, but it’s fairly competitive when compared with other gaming laptops, which aren’t at all the same thing as a portable computer used only for light tasks such as word processing or Facebook.
Gaming laptop 101
Before diving further into the specifics of Gigabyte’s P37X gaming laptop, it’s worth explaining these differences between portable gaming computers and normal laptops.
This corner of the wider computing market caters for its own specific niche, and is intended for a quite different usage scenario than your average Ultrabook or general-purpose laptop. As a rule, gaming laptops aren’t light or thin, the battery life is awful and they cost a small fortune.
But in giving up those qualities, which are normally of utmost importance, a gaming laptop can offer desktop-like 3D performance and high gaming frame …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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