14 DAY TRIAL // In the wake of NIVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980M / 970M graphic card launches, a lot of mobile gaming solution providers have introduced new laptop models taking advantage of the architecture.
Given the fact that there are more and more gaming notebook options available on the market, an obvious questions arises – is there a market for this kind of devices?
It appears the answer is yes. As Digi Times reports, notebook vendors that have stayed clear of the gaming ecosystem so far, like Acer and Lenovo, are in the process of shifting their strategies.
Encouraged by the success of gaming rig makers such as MSI, other brand vendors are looking to invest more heavily in the market.
MSI is joined by ASUS’ gaming notebook branch (Republic of Gamers) which launches new solutions frequently. For example, ROG’s G55 and G56-series gaming notebooks are designed specifically to counter MSI’s offerings.
Lenovo and Acer are newcomers to the industry of gaming notebooks, where MSI has setup a tradition for the last two years. The company is also hosting a global PC gaming tournament in Taipei next month, where it offers consistent cash prices to a winning team.
Acer gaming laptops
For those of you who don’t remember, Acer’s Aspire V Nitro gaming lineup with 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch models became official back in August.
The company might be known for its Chromebook products, but this could change soon if the Nitro family proves to be successful.
Both models will take advantage of a full HD display (1920 x 1200 pixels) with IPS Technology to provide wide viewing angles.
Under the hood lies a 4th-gen Intel Core Haswell chip with NVIDIA GeForce graphics card up to GTX 860.
Acer will probably have to bump things up in the GPU department with its next products if it hopes to compete with the current gaming slew.
Lenovo gaming notebooks
At IFA 2014, Lenovo unveiled the IdeaPad Y70 which is a laptop coming with 17.3-inch display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, which is better than the average 1366 x 768 pixel res, but still way below the current industry standard (3200 x 1800 or 2560 x 1440).
The power source of the notebook is a Haswell Core i7-4710HQ processor clocked at 2.7GHz fitted with up to 16GB of RAM.
As for GPU, customers can go as far as choosing an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 4GB VRAM graphics cards. This is not the latest GPU standard, but Lenovo will most likely update with future versions.
So in the future months, we should expect to see new Lenovo and Acer gaming laptops which abide by the latest rigors of the market.