It's limited by the cooling of course. 2080 Max-Q only matches the TDP of a "proper" 2060 while being ~25-33% faster, which is on the level of a "proper" 2070. ...Unless by proper you meant the desktop version.
"In any case, the new PCs look very futuristic, and are a notable departure from Alienware's previous m15 design."
Sharp angles and brushed aluminum, I mean magnesium? Looks like what we thought the future looked like back in the 80s. I'm cool with that, I have retained a love of that style. Just saying, everything old is new again.
If anything they look like Alienware pre-Dell, which is a good thing. IMO Alienware's gone tacky under Dell, falling in line with previous MSI and Asus gaming models. Recently they've all improved though, not just Alienware, but Razer's still at the top.
I guess there will be market differentiation based on that, but on a dual drive (triple drive system? I wish) we still need a SATA option.
I still do quite a bit of drive thrashing on some projects and I'd rather not burn up my SSD doing that. A lot of this video work is just literally decompress, write, compress, delete, so I can burn through a fair amount of data in a single day. That doesn't hurt my secondary HD, but 40+ GB/day written on an SSD is not the best thing in the world.
Modern SSDs won't break a sweat with 40+GB written per day, as long as the drive isn't full (or close to full). You'll still get way more than a 5 year lifespan out of them with that kind of activity.
lol i thought you were pushing a lot of data. 40GB is nothing. Maybe an order of magnitude more data and you'll see an issue, but do you really expect to keep this as a primary machine for more than 2-3 years? Even then, with the market collapse of ssd, when one starts to fail just replace them both or use a pair of external drives. even usb3 has no problem keeping up with a sata3 hdd. toss one on usb c and the other on the thunderbolt port.
I didn't notice the OLED option before, with that the only major issue preventing me from considering this seriously would be the lack of RAM upgrade options.
saw the same thing. i have 16 now in my r4 and could use 32 sometimes, but i guess with the speed of nvme at this point, running a paging file it virtually makes no difference for like 99% of situations
Last I checked, OLED display was a $500 upgrade !!! I would rather buy a $1200 LG 55" OLED TV, than spending $500 on a laptop display which is going to be obsolete in 2-3 years.
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brakdoo - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
OLED!!!11!ksec - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
And for a moment I was thinking how did we get 240Hz OLED, turns out the 240Hz is only for LCD only.Xex360 - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
Why limit the laptop with those useless max-q GPUs, put a proper 2070/80 in there.deil - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
max q is plenty. Those things already have power bricks almost as big as laptop itself, we don't want 2 bricks needed for single machine.s.yu - Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - link
It's limited by the cooling of course. 2080 Max-Q only matches the TDP of a "proper" 2060 while being ~25-33% faster, which is on the level of a "proper" 2070....Unless by proper you meant the desktop version.
Lord of the Bored - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
"In any case, the new PCs look very futuristic, and are a notable departure from Alienware's previous m15 design."Sharp angles and brushed aluminum, I mean magnesium? Looks like what we thought the future looked like back in the 80s.
I'm cool with that, I have retained a love of that style. Just saying, everything old is new again.
s.yu - Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - link
If anything they look like Alienware pre-Dell, which is a good thing. IMO Alienware's gone tacky under Dell, falling in line with previous MSI and Asus gaming models. Recently they've all improved though, not just Alienware, but Razer's still at the top.TristanSDX - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
do this OLED support adaptive sync ?0ldman79 - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
Only m.2 support for drives apparently.I guess there will be market differentiation based on that, but on a dual drive (triple drive system? I wish) we still need a SATA option.
I still do quite a bit of drive thrashing on some projects and I'd rather not burn up my SSD doing that. A lot of this video work is just literally decompress, write, compress, delete, so I can burn through a fair amount of data in a single day. That doesn't hurt my secondary HD, but 40+ GB/day written on an SSD is not the best thing in the world.
Spunjji - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
Modern SSDs won't break a sweat with 40+GB written per day, as long as the drive isn't full (or close to full). You'll still get way more than a 5 year lifespan out of them with that kind of activity.SEVE7 - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link
lol i thought you were pushing a lot of data. 40GB is nothing. Maybe an order of magnitude more data and you'll see an issue, but do you really expect to keep this as a primary machine for more than 2-3 years? Even then, with the market collapse of ssd, when one starts to fail just replace them both or use a pair of external drives. even usb3 has no problem keeping up with a sata3 hdd. toss one on usb c and the other on the thunderbolt port.Sizaw - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
The spec sheet lists Intel 8265 wireless. Is this a joke? Maybe the chassis design isn't great for WiFi 6?s.yu - Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - link
I didn't notice the OLED option before, with that the only major issue preventing me from considering this seriously would be the lack of RAM upgrade options.SEVE7 - Monday, June 3, 2019 - link
saw the same thing. i have 16 now in my r4 and could use 32 sometimes, but i guess with the speed of nvme at this point, running a paging file it virtually makes no difference for like 99% of situationspatel21 - Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - link
Last I checked, OLED display was a $500 upgrade !!! I would rather buy a $1200 LG 55" OLED TV, than spending $500 on a laptop display which is going to be obsolete in 2-3 years.