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BUYING GUIDE<br />

and a GeForce GTX 1070. Occasionally it would match<br />

a GTX 1080, but most of the time, it was, well, more<br />

like a GeForce GTX ‘1075’.<br />

We haven’t yet formally reviewed a GeForce GTX<br />

1060 or GTX 1070 with Max-Q but in testing a new<br />

Gigabyte Aero 15X with a GTX 1070 with Max-Q puts<br />

we found it right where we expected – something akin<br />

to a GeForce GTX ‘1065’.<br />

If you want all-out performance and don’t care<br />

about the weight and size, we recommend you go<br />

with a standard GeForce card in a thicker laptop. If<br />

you’re looking for something thinner, lighter, and<br />

quieter, then take a hard look at Max-Q laptops.<br />

External graphics support<br />

The next area you should think about is the burgeoning<br />

support for external graphics in gaming laptops.<br />

Customers of Alienware have long enjoyed this with<br />

its relatively inexpensive (and proprietary) Graphics<br />

90 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2018<br />

Akitio Node<br />

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