That 18" is so bad balanced that I can't really get what they are after with it. Sli gtx 1080 and 1080p 60Hz screen(must have at least 120Hz one available), what th****, where, why?!???!? While in the same time with 15" you could have 2160p monitor, but with single gpu.
I don't think I've ever seen anything better than 1080p60 at 18.4" It's only in the last year or so that anything better has shown up at 17.3. It's the same reason it took forever at 17.3, only more so. Unlike 15.6 which is still quasi-mainstream and can ride high end mass market laptops for higher DPI, 17.3 is a tiny market segment and 18.4 makes 17.3 look big. As a result none of the panel makers are in any rush to make a new design because it'd take forever to earn out their R&D unless they price it stupidly high.
If anything pops in the medium term, I'd expect it to be a 1440p screen, only because it'd be at the same 160dpi that a 27" 4k panel does letting them share a larger chunk of the manufacturing chain. OTOH I'm not holding my breath on it happening anytime soon.
On the gripping hand given their limited portability I suspect a lot of these machines end up on a desk running an external monitor most of the time anyway.
All good and understandable reasons for the resolution. But for 1080p single gtx1070 should be enough, I would understand single gtx1080 too(for the future). But with Sli you got more power consumption and heat generating elements for nothing to really gain.
If I would have to design such a thing, one gtx 1080 + every room spared for bigger battery or even put two batteries on it would make it much better balanced. But yeah maybe I'm just too closed mind by thinking laptop should be laptop. For the price of most expensive one, one could get gaming PC with freaking Titan V and some ips monitor with gsync. Which would be quite stupid too, but less stupid than buying hard to nill upgrade-able over expensive gaming laptop.
for safety reasons the battery has to stay below 100Wh or it can't fly and battery life has always been so consistently atrocious on this class of system that they might as well not even bother.
And other than letting you go maybe a year longer before needing a new system SLI's pointless if using the internal screen; which's why I suspect most people buying these do normally have access to an external monitor and just want to only have 1 computer for home and away not two.
Does SLI even matter at this point? The benchmarks I've seen lately don't show much actual improvement in game performance. It looks like game developers aren't optimizing for multiple GPUs so that second graphics card isn't going to have a lot of use or value in exchange for the added physical size of the computer.
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Agent Smith - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
Doesn’t matter how much glitter you throw at it it’s still an ugly laptop.LordSojar - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
Sir... SIR...! The term is "hideous." Sir, I expect better use of the English language for more accurate descriptions.jabbadap - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
Or in modern day language "fugly", but yeah "hideous" is proper English.Yomama6776 - Thursday, April 19, 2018 - link
Yeah, the keyboards looks like someone threw up rainbows on itjabbadap - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
That 18" is so bad balanced that I can't really get what they are after with it. Sli gtx 1080 and 1080p 60Hz screen(must have at least 120Hz one available), what th****, where, why?!???!? While in the same time with 15" you could have 2160p monitor, but with single gpu.DanNeely - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
I don't think I've ever seen anything better than 1080p60 at 18.4" It's only in the last year or so that anything better has shown up at 17.3. It's the same reason it took forever at 17.3, only more so. Unlike 15.6 which is still quasi-mainstream and can ride high end mass market laptops for higher DPI, 17.3 is a tiny market segment and 18.4 makes 17.3 look big. As a result none of the panel makers are in any rush to make a new design because it'd take forever to earn out their R&D unless they price it stupidly high.If anything pops in the medium term, I'd expect it to be a 1440p screen, only because it'd be at the same 160dpi that a 27" 4k panel does letting them share a larger chunk of the manufacturing chain. OTOH I'm not holding my breath on it happening anytime soon.
On the gripping hand given their limited portability I suspect a lot of these machines end up on a desk running an external monitor most of the time anyway.
jabbadap - Sunday, April 15, 2018 - link
All good and understandable reasons for the resolution. But for 1080p single gtx1070 should be enough, I would understand single gtx1080 too(for the future). But with Sli you got more power consumption and heat generating elements for nothing to really gain.If I would have to design such a thing, one gtx 1080 + every room spared for bigger battery or even put two batteries on it would make it much better balanced. But yeah maybe I'm just too closed mind by thinking laptop should be laptop. For the price of most expensive one, one could get gaming PC with freaking Titan V and some ips monitor with gsync. Which would be quite stupid too, but less stupid than buying hard to nill upgrade-able over expensive gaming laptop.
DanNeely - Sunday, April 15, 2018 - link
for safety reasons the battery has to stay below 100Wh or it can't fly and battery life has always been so consistently atrocious on this class of system that they might as well not even bother.And other than letting you go maybe a year longer before needing a new system SLI's pointless if using the internal screen; which's why I suspect most people buying these do normally have access to an external monitor and just want to only have 1 computer for home and away not two.
bennyg - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
"The MSI GT83 Titan still comes with an 18.4-inch FHD IPS panel featuring a 60 Hz refresh rate that the company introduced in 2018."Umm typo? 1080p 60Hz on a flagship product is more like 2008...
Hurr Durr - Saturday, April 14, 2018 - link
You don`t need any more outside of games like Quake. And these are played on proper stationary PCs in competitive settings anyway.PeachNCream - Monday, April 16, 2018 - link
Does SLI even matter at this point? The benchmarks I've seen lately don't show much actual improvement in game performance. It looks like game developers aren't optimizing for multiple GPUs so that second graphics card isn't going to have a lot of use or value in exchange for the added physical size of the computer.