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BUYING GUIDE<br />
rate and G-Sync (or FreeSync if you can find a laptop<br />
that supports it with a Radeon GPU). If you tend to<br />
also push pixels in Photoshop or do any colour-critical<br />
work, skip variable refresh for an IPS panel.<br />
Keyboard and trackpad<br />
A new trend in gaming laptops is the offset trackpad,<br />
which is more conducive to gaming than a deadcentre<br />
trackpad. The concept is sound but anyone<br />
who actually cares about PC gaming will just plug in a<br />
mouse. The worst thing about that offset trackpad is<br />
when you try to use it for non-gaming purposes.<br />
As far as keyboards go, the most important gaming<br />
feature is n-key rollover. This means the keyboard<br />
physically scans each key separately. If you wanted<br />
to, you could press 20 keys and they’d all register as<br />
each is independently wired. That probably sounds<br />
Razer was the first<br />
manufacturer that<br />
we know of to use an<br />
offset trackpad as an<br />
ad hoc gaming ‘mouse’<br />
82 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2018<br />
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