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  • Optimummind - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    For that price, a GeForce GTX 1060 (non-MaxQ) should've been the minimum, IMO.
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    Looking at similar specced models (i7, 1050Ti, 15" 4k, 16GB, 512 GB) the cheaper HP models are significantly thicker/somewhat heavier roughly 1" vs 0.7", Lenovo has a model that's a much closer match selling at $1680 discounted from a $1849 MSRP. That suggests that once the it's new so we're not going to discount it at all period is past the Asus should be a lot closer to it in price. And while still relatively fat the HP Omen is the only premium segment model (pavilion's are a mainstream model) is also $1700.

    And in the ultra-thin category I think there's a lot to be said for staying with lower TDP models to keep temperatures/fan volumes down.

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Su...
  • satai - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    Nvidia card totally kills it for me :-/

    Both Intel and AMD create drivers of reasonable quality but both Nvidia and Noveau are sadly not worth the troubles.
  • Spunjji - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link

    Interesting. In my experience Intel's drivers have consistently been the worst I've encountered, excepting now-defunct companies like S3.
  • satai - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link

    Intel keeps them OSS and they are in mainline kernels. Very little problems so far.

    (Speaking about up-to date Core CPUs, not old Atoms etc.)
  • cosmotic - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    DC input? not USB PD? =(
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    USB-PD can't deliver enough power to keep it from draining the battery while gaming and plugged into the wall. It tops out at 100W, this has a 45W cpu, 64W GPU (both higher as long as they're running above base clocks), and a few more watts to run rest of the system at load.
  • doggface - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link

    Um. Thats not how those numbers work. You are quoting TDP.

    It has a 71w battery which takes just under 10 hrs to drain on that mobile mark test. That means it has an average power draw of 7.1-7.5 watts/hr. This will likely come with a 45 or 65 watt charger so it can charge and run at the same time. Well within USB-PD spec.
  • erinadreno - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link

    Manufactures usually design their PSU at greater than the combined TDP of all components, unless it's Apple. The peak TDP of CPU is usually 65W on windows laptops, while GPU compromises its power whenever necessary. If ASUS keeps its design, the PSU would be 130W, only Dell managed to make a type-c PSU (non USB-PD) with that much power.
  • Teckk - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    The right number of ports, thank you!
  • mobutu - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - link

    pretty nice, I would have liked a 1920x1200 resolution as option
  • danwat1234 - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link

    "ASUS may expand the number of configurations and introduce models that are more affordable (Core i5-8300H-based) or more expensive (Core i9-based"
    :: We already know the i9 is an option so not sure why it's worded this way. Tho, it throttles a lot!
  • Nexing - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link

    Agree with the "correct number of ports" particularly the 2x Thunderbolt 3.
    What makes this laptop disposable (fails to be future proof) is the soldered RAM, specially in the midst of related technological advances, together with increased speed to market and the coming wave of price reduction for RAM...
    Deal breaker to me, wouldn't mind 1 or 2 extra mm of thickness in exchange.

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