Asus ROG readying a GTX 1080 laptop that’s less than 17mm thick

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The slim new GX501 sports a 15.6-inch 4K UHD screen with Nvidia G-Sync support.

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That thing is gonna throttle like a mofo, even current GTX 1070 and 1080 laptops throttle pretty considerably.

Too much (and dated looking) bezel.

I agree that the huge space between the keyboard and the screen is a bit odd. No touchpad either? That's odd.

I think the touchpad is put together with the numpad. Doesn't look like any buttons are there, just a faint print of a numpad...
That space between the keyboard and screen is very odd as well.

There is a touchpad, and a numpad. For those who can't read the article:

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The picture also shows a very interesting keyboard / numpad layout where a numpad grid can be toggled to function within the touch-pad area to the right.

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Wow that is a supremely ugly laptop O.o

Out of interest, who buys this kind of thing? Of the reasonably techy minded people i know who might be interested in a high performance laptop, none value thinness as a major consideration, doubly so if it impacts cooling (therefore making it loud and prone to throttling) to achieve that...

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Originally Posted by RT-XD

That space between the keyboard and screen is very odd as well.

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Unusual but not unprecedented

https://s.aolcdn.com/dims5/amp:64078...a-7800-s3k.jpg

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ibm-thinkpad.jpg

That space between the keyboard and screen reminds me an Apple Mac designs - ugly.

Ah, you got me about the number pad doubling as the touchpad. That in itself is weird, but at least there is one.

17mm thick, but you could land a helicopter on it.

Fair play to them for pulling off viable 1080 cooling in such a thin chassis, but honestly, I'd much rather a system that wont rupture my eardrums under load.