The devices will compete with other recent offering in the thin gaming notebook department

Sep 21, 2013 09:44 GMT  ·  By

More and more companies are trying to bridge the gap between mobility and performance, by releasing powerful gaming notebooks with a thin frame. This is the case of iBUYPOWER, which has just pulled the veil off a line of super thin laptops for gamers, called Battalion M1771.

Vice President of iBUYPOWER, Darren Su explains why such a device was needed in the gaming ecosystem. „It used to be that the biggest notebooks carried the biggest power, but that's not the case anymore.

“Our new Battalion demonstrates that you don't have to sacrifice on mobility if you desire incredible gaming power. For those who want the best of both worlds, that is it.”

The new line consists of the MS1771-1 and MS1771-2 and both feature a 17.3-inch Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, plus Nvidia GeForce Graphics and Intel Haswell Core i7 processors.

Gamers can expect the MS1771-1 to sport 8GB of DDR3-1600 RAM 1TB hard drive, Killer E2200 LAN, Killer N1202 dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0. The MS1771-2 doubles the RAM offering to 16GB and ships with an extra 256GB SSD.

According to iBUYPOWER, the Battalion is the thinnest 17-inch gaming laptop available on the market.

Interested parties, head on to the official site quickly, because there's an offer waiting for you. Customers ordering this week will get free shipping as part of the deal.

The MS1771-1 price starts at $1,429 / €1,056 while the MS1771-2's begins from the $1,769 / €1,308 baseline.