GAMINGLAPTOPS

ASUS ROG ZEPHYRUS THIS ONE EARNS ITS NAME AS A GREEK WIND GOD. Price TBA | June 27th 2017 | www.asus.com/au

Of all the laptops we saw showing off Nvidia’s new Max-Q GPUs, ASUS’s Zephyrus was the most dramatic by far. For starters, it manages to house a GeForce GTX 1080 GPU in its tiny 17.9mm-thick chassis (for reference, that is less than a millimeter thicker than the 2014 MacBook Air we’re currently working on). Leveraging some clever engineering, the base of the unit peels open when the laptop is unfolded, allowing an entire edge to be used for unfettered airflow. Add to this solid supporting components and a reasonably quiet 42-decibel operating noise and you have an impressive new benchmark for gaming ultrabooks.

AORUS X9 GAMING LAPTOP THE APEX OF AORUS Price TBA | October/November 2017 | www.gigabyte.com.au

Intended to be the top pillar of the Aorus X-series gaming laptops, the X9 sports a new stealthfighter-esque lid design and a flashy eagle-shaped vent system, along with a substantial kick where it counts. The GPU is a GeForce GTX 1070 SLI — these twin 1070s are apparently capable of running at a 30% higher performance level than a 1080 — and the relatively thin body (under 30mm) manages to squeeze in a mechanical keyboard with full per-key RGB support.

MSI GT75VR TITAN GAMING LAPTOP AN ALL-IN-ONE GAMING SOLUTION OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS Price & availability TBA | au.msi.com

MSI’s latest high-end offering in the realm of gaming laptops may seem closer to a desktop in size and scale when compared to some other releases at Computex this year, but it’s hard to ignore some of the premium specs of this Titan. A 17-inch Ultra HD display, up to a GTX 1080 or 1070 SLI, a SteelSeries rapid RGB mechanical keyboard, and perhaps most impressively, an entirely new and super-powerful CoolerBoost Titan cooling system that allows for some serious CPU overclocking (up to 4GHz).