MSI GT80 teased - 18" SLI wielding, mechanical keyboard packing king of notebooks

[jasong]

I just saw this one on Tomshardware:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-mechanical-keyboard-gaming-notebook,27991.html#xtor=RSS-181

MSI Boasts New GT80 Titan 'World's First' Gaming Laptop With Mechanical Keyboard
The big drawback about gaming on a laptop is the keyboard. Typically, the keys sit flush against the chassis so that the laptop can fully close when not in use. There's really no tactile feedback save for perhaps a light click when mashing a key. MSI's new GT80 Titan changes all that, becoming the first gaming laptop to provide a built-in mechanical keyboard.

According to the company, the GT80 features a SteelSeries keyboard with Cherry Brown MX switches and 27-mm keycaps, which will provide plenty of clickety-click tactile feedback while gaming or simply trolling across the Internet. Mechanical keyboards can tolerate finger-based abuse, and presumably there are no accidental key presses as you sometimes see with standard notebook keyboards.

The company indicated on Thursday that the laptop has an enhanced SteelSeries Engine with CloudSync so that gamers can save their settings in the cloud and access them from anywhere.

"Performance is key for gamers and the GT80 Titan will forever change the mobile gaming experience," said Andy Tung, president of MSI Pan America. "We are proud to be at the forefront of the gaming evolution and will continue to provide solutions that deliver the most outstanding gaming experience in the world."

News of the world's first gaming laptop with a mechanical keyboard arrives after the company updated its 27-inch all-in-one (AIO) gaming PCs with Nvidia GeForce GTX 900M series graphic cards. The AG270 2QC and the AG270 2QE are available now, with more upgraded models appearing in a few weeks. There are three versions of each, providing a solution for gamers with various budgets.

The company also recently updated its GS70 Stealth Pro and GS60 Ghost Pro models, and its GT72 Dominator, GT70 Dominator and GT60 Dominator gaming laptops with Nvidia's GTX 900M Series graphics and MSI's own SHIFT power adjustment technology. These laptops come with fourth-generation Core i7 processors, Killer E2200 game networking, Sound Blaster Cinema and more.

Update, 10/30/14 9:25am: As for the new GT80 Titan being introduced today, MSI is remaining quiet about the hardware. The only feature we could get from an MSI representative was that the laptop has SLI.

Check out the teaser site over here:
http://event.msicomputer.com/gt80titan/

 

[Hagan]

Is it always that shiny, or is it just for advertisement purposes?

 

[jasong]

CES gave us a much deeper look at the GT80 notebook and it's absolutely ludicrous. Obviously this is a niche product - retail starts at $3300 for one thing - but the specs it offers would decimate 90% of desktop gaming systems:

- Cherry MX Brown Steelseries mechanical keyboard. I like the way they've placed it at the lip edge of the chassis, partly because that's more natural to type and partly to give quick access to upgrade slots.
- Top end Crystal Well i7-4980HQ CPU.
- Up to 2 x 980m MXM GPUs which are also upgradeable in the future.
- Four M.2 SATA slots in RAID for SSD storage plus a 2.5" HDD bay.
- Tactile haptic numberpad
- 18.4" 1080p display.


Check out some previews:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/7495073/msi-mechanical-keyboard-gt80-titan-laptop-ces
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8818/msi-gt80-titan-full-specs-revealed
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-gt80-mechanical-sli-laptop,28346.html

 

[blaaislaai]

What borat says.

 

[jasong]

Cherry MX Brown:

 

[jasong]

Super RAID 3 – Gaming Performance Benefits

MSI has used the fastest possible RAID setup in our laptops – we call it Super RAID 3!
This picture shows how the different kinds of RAID setups work. Some focus on backing up data, and some focus on pure speed:

The fastest type of setup is RAID 0, which goes for sheer blazing performance by using the combined speed of the drives, like strapping two jet engines into a car.

MSI’s Super RAID 3 takes RAID 0 and goes crazy with it, using 4 SSDs in a striped array for sheer blazing bat-nuts 1600mb/s transfer speed.

GT80 Titan with four SSDs in Super RAID 3:

While we have no doubt that our Super RAID 3 solution is the ultimate, we want to demonstrate to you exactly how massive the gap is with the help of some ridiculous and unfair benchmarks. We took a GE40 with a normal non-SSD 7200rpm hard drive and compared it to the GT72 Dragon Edition and its 4 256GB SSDs using Crystal Diskmark. Extreme differences? You bet.
First up the HDD:

The drive barely manages 60mb/s read speeds and basically dies in the 4k test.
Now the Super RAID 3 results:

1.5 GB/s sequential read is absolutely insane. Booting into Windows 8? Blink and it’s done.
The SSDs in Super RAID 3 obliterated the hard drive.

Best of all with 1tb of SSDs there’s plenty of room for games, so your Battlefield 4 maps will load faster than anyone’s.