New Alienware laptop's with 4k screens?

How long will it be before I can get a 17inch Alienware laptop with a true 4k screen? It seems like Dell,HP and Lenovo have been doing this on the sub $1000 laptops for 2-3 generations now.

 

on 17"? I have not seen 4k on anything above 15" yet.

 

there isn't a really good 4k 17 inch panel available right now. You will probably see a 4k screen come to the 17 as soon as someone starts making a good ips panel. Plus a single card system is gonna crawl at 4k anyway.

 

Yeah, even if a panel comes along I doubt dell will offer it until a more powerful GPU comes along - the R3 needs a good selling point .

 

Yeah it will probably be BGA Broadwell or BGA skylake which will be it's selling point.. Damm BGA hunk... I'm waiting for more IPS options to be out for 17" laptops and especially Clevo ones.. it's a shame because 15" options such as IPS/3K IPS etc are plentiful..

 

Plus you don't want to mess with in-game scaling issues that plague Windows running high-dpi displays 3k+. On a regular basis to run games at 1080p I have to change the resolution 500 times back and forth before it decides to scale right.

 

That stuff might be fixed by Nvidia's DSR: DSR | Technology | GeForce

It's only on Fermi and Maxwell ( Correction, Maxwell only) and currently still in development. It is in the desktop drivers but SLi and mobile chips, not yet . I was seeing a lot of people liking this (along of course with display specific problems). People have been upscaling above native and seeing an improvement in quality and AA when it downscales to fit the display. Kinda counter-intuitive but that's what I have seen said a few times.

Let me know if you see any others using this .

Edit: Seems despite the advertising blurb Fermi will be included AND mobile. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/783025/geforce-drivers/dsr-on-680/post/4340343/#4340343

 

The question is when will mobile be included? I've wanted to try out DSR with BF4 since at full HD in my config I get 60-80fps and could do with less fps and more image quality

 

No statement from NV except TBA. They might just be keeping the user base lower while they iron out the bugs. SLi will be next I reckon.

It is annoying that this looks like it will benefit the faster GPU's quite a bit.

O/T I just finished a session on AC:U and was seeing frame rates well above what I am used to. Maxed out all the settings except AA at FXAA and it looks great. No shimmering either. I do have the res dropped down to the recommended 1366x768 so only slightly higher than 720p, but I can't see any degradation from 1080. I'm now seeing 50~70fps most of the time with peaks at over 100fps, and dips to 45 (not often at all). Don't know if it's the latest driver or they updated the game profile. Whatever, I wish it was this good when I played it through originally .

 

I'm excited for Skylake.

 

We don't have any info about that internally. The 17" panels aren't ready for that technology yet.

 

I'm not excited for more BGA junk.. Supposedly Intel's going to BGA desktop Skylake chips or whatever.. it will really be the end of the PC/laptop market if this is allowed..

Well not exactly... The 17" pannels are ready for the 3K/4K IPS tech.. The main problem is the display makers don't see as much of a demand for 3K/4K IPS screens in 17" segment compared to the 15" ones so one is making these 3K/4K IPS 17.3" pannels.. At least 1080p IPS pannels are coming slowly.. I wouldn't mind a 3K 17" IPS pannel tbh..

 

Sorry, I should have clarified, yeah the 4k screens I have been seeing have been on 15 inch laptops. It almost surprises me that Apple hasn't led the way to 4k screens on laptops. Then again, Apple isn't making 17 inch Macbook Pro's anymore. On the PC side and being an Alienware person, I am also surprised that Alienware isn't pushing 4k displays on the 17 inch laptop's. I mean Dell really pushes their monitor's on everyone and they are not putting money into the 17 inch market?

 

I mean, I am already recording and playing 4k video from GoPro's on the cheap side and 4k pro-sumer camcorders are less than $3,000 now......