The GeForce GTX 970M employs the GM204 chip used in its desktop siblings, the GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 980. In the P57W, Gigabyte teams the CPU up with 16GB of Crucial’s DDR4-2133 RAM. It has a 2.6-GHz base clock and a 3.5-GHz Turbo speed. The Core i7-6700HQ is a Skylake processor with a 45W TDP. (Considering that Aorus is Gigabyte’s gaming brand, perhaps that’s not a surprise.) Both laptops are powered by Intel’s Core i7-6700HQ CPU and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970M mobile graphics processor, an impressive combination. The P57W shares a lot in common with the Aorus X3 Plus v5 laptop I took a peek at earlier this spring. After spending a couple weeks with Gigabyte’s 17.3″ P57W laptop, though, I’ve become convinced that some people should consider going big with their next notebook. These days, full-size laptops have taken a back seat to the thin-and-light options of the world like the Macbook Air and the Surface Pro. Sure, larger machines are always available, but they’ve developed a reputation for being hot, heavy, and loud. The same can’t be said of the laptop market. And yet here so many of us are, gleefully picking among one 5″-or-larger behemoth and the next. Even as recently as 2010, Steve Jobs claimed that “no one’s going to buy” a large phone.
To be fair, the first movie was made in 2001, when phone manufacturers were eager to set their products apart from the relatively massive cell phone s of the ’80s and ’90s.
There’s a running gag in the original Zoolander movie that’s so charmingly dated that the writers of this year’s sequel couldn’t help but make fun of it.