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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 />
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