8 Core Notebook

[Queen6]

Rather speaks for it's self

Little weak on the GPU side, however for those that can lever the performance of the CPU a "flyer" Not for those seeking long run times off the power Wouldn't mind picking one up at the right price, although still happy with my current 17"

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[SteveJUAE]

Impressive for the price, a bit niche and not my cup of tea but otherwise interesting

 

[Queen6]

Very much so, equally if one is not able to lever the 8 Cores, then there is better to be bought at a lower price point. Plan to have a look at one shortly, purely out of interest. At this point not enough to tip the balance, add in a Vega might be a different story for those that prefer AMD and gaming is a must...

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[cube]

There were some 12-core Xeon "laptops" some years ago.

 

[Queen6]

There were some 12-core Xeon "laptops" some years ago.

True, but not this performance at this price point. It's an interesting notebook although I feel a little imbalanced; better GPU would serve the gamers, more colour accurate display would serve those looking to render video etc.

If one can utilise the 8 Core's an interesting proposition, although for a 17" notebook it is rather limited in scalability, with everything rather centred around the CPU Core count.

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[Kcetech1]

There were some 12-core Xeon "laptops" some years ago.

Yep I still have an old Clevo unit with a 12 core desktop Xeon in it ..... battery life sucks but holy crap can she number crunch

 

[cube]

I thought this is what I need when it was shown last year, but I will wait for:

- Proper thermal management
- Thunderbolt
- Vega
- 4x RAM slots, I already have a "32GiB" laptop.
- Hard drive makers have stopped caring, it needs to fit a 15mm HDD.
- Hopefully, 15" screen.

I would still want a socket and proper BIOS updates.

1:15 battery charge is way better than 0:30 with the aforementioned Xeon.

 

[SteveJUAE]

True, but not this performance at this price point. It's an interesting notebook although I feel a little imbalanced; better GPU would serve the gamers, more colour accurate display would serve those looking to render video etc.

If one can utilise the 8 Core's an interesting proposition, although for a 17" notebook it is rather limited in scalability, with everything rather centred around the CPU Core count.

Q-6

Yes my thoughts exactly its all rev'd up but nowhere to go re GPU/Screen

 

[cube]

45W:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-core-i9-8950hk-the-companys-most-powerful-laptop-chip-yet/

 

[Queen6]

45W:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-core-i9-8950hk-the-companys-most-powerful-laptop-chip-yet/

Core I9 notebooks are pretty much here

Aorus X9 makes for a killer portable, that's a lot computing power on the go Meanwhile at Apple, Tim & Co congratulate themselves on making yet more empty promises while working out how to **** up the MBP even more...

Another

These are going to fly, just turn off the LED's and no one will remotely care what it is, equally the results will be impressive.

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[Queen6]

I thought this is what I need when it was shown last year, but I will wait for:

- Proper thermal management
- Thunderbolt
- Vega
- 4x RAM slots, I already have a "32GiB" laptop.
- Hard drive makers have stopped caring, it needs to fit a 15mm HDD.
- Hopefully, 15" screen.

I would still want a socket and proper BIOS updates.

1:15 battery charge is way better than 0:30 with the aforementioned Xeon.

Hopefully, this one just looks more a design exercise by AMD & ASUS to get it's hardware out there quickly. The current 8 core at the right price would interest me, as there's always the chance that ASUS will EOL the model. I don't see it appealing to the average gamer given the GPU and lack of games that would really benefit from having 8 cores, but for a number cruncher very handy...

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