By Kane Fulton
Gaming PCs that are both crazy powerful and portable enough to carry to LAN parties are growing in numbers. And no, we’re not counting luxuries like the 8pack Asteroid, which come with their own flight cases, among them. Like the Alienware Aurora R5, Lenovo’s new Ideacentre Y710 Cube has a handle built into its case that makes lugging it to gaming halls, your friend’s bedroom, or the room next door much less of a hassle.
So, pricing: the VR-ready Ideacentre Y710 Cube starts at $1,300 (around £1,000, AU$1,700) for the version with a GTX 1070 graphics card. You can, of course, expect the cost for the full-fat GTX 1080 version to be north of that. Both configurations go on sale from October.
Wherever you take the Y710 Cube, which was on show at IFA 2016, its design is bound to catch eyes. Its front edge houses the main attraction – a three-pronged glowing red light that lends this box-shaped offering the appearance of a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. The case is decked in various shades of matte grey plastic that’s chopped up with red and black, borrowing design language from the company’s Ideacentre Y900 desktop …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac