MAX Q

Yea exactly. It’s brilliant marketing actually. Core M processor sales were slow at my store because that meant slow in the customers minds. Now that the M5 on many models had been “upgraded” to i5 they’re selling.

I am a big fan of many of the max q laptop designs but it’s just the naming that irks me; my store didn’t even print max q on the spec sheet the Asus Zeph was literally tagged with a 1080.

If the m5 was branded core i5 M the store could have more easily omitted the M “by mistake. Plus consumers wouldn’t care the majority of them can’t tell the performance difference when SSDs are in the equation and I usually can’t unless it’s a game or benchmark.

Max Q did a better job of skirting around the fact that it is slower from a marketing standpoint. Enough that the people who want it don’t mind.

 

I think a lot of people get that it's a branching upgrade. You're at a 1070, if you want a smaller form factor without losing performance, 1080MQ. Want more raw power and don't care about FF, 1080. There's enough people whose priority is form factor that it's probably going to keep selling despite the performance.

 

I think your work environment is also objectively more honest. I look at your website it appears you're upfront with the naming. I also think that the customers going to XoticPC have more product knowledge than the ones that came into the retail shop I worked at.

At my old job we put the Max-Q models out on display with stickers on them that indicated they were regular, not Max-Q, chips. I pointed this out to a manager. He told me not to tell my customers.

My old job has a 40% turnover rate for sales reps. Your business is just better lol.

 

We make money either way, why not just get it right the first time and not have to deal with a return because someone thought they were getting a full 1080 and ended up with an MQ? Makes no sense to me to not label it.

 

What's your PC spec including screen size please?

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Yep, that's ********

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Exactly, or use a graphics benchmark like firestrike which is what benchmarks were created for! I.e not too many variables from a game and everyone has it or can get it for free

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