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    Why did Asus stop making higher end 15 inch laptops?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by WongJJ, Nov 15, 2015.

  1. WongJJ

    WongJJ Notebook Enthusiast

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    They used to make 15 inch versions of their 17 inch ROG laptops. Now all they have are mid range multimedia 15 inch laptops. Will there be a 15 inch ROG laptop from Asus that uses a more powerful gfx card than GTX 960m?
     
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    Market demand and chassis development, I guess they felt there was not enough interest.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 16, 2015
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    Which is odd, considering that 15" notebooks with a Core i7 and GTX 970M/980M are some of the best-sellers we see in this forum.

    In fact, 17" gaming notebooks seem to be a minority of those sold, which makes it odd that that's where ASUS is focusing their efforts.
     
    Ramzay, Nov 17, 2015
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    They just quietly released the new version of their 15-inch. It looked pretty good, skylake i7, FHD, but they added an optical drive to it and kept it at a GTX 960, so I'll keep waiting for Razer or HP to update theirs.

    http://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/GL552VW/
     
    David-El, Nov 21, 2015
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    It's nice, but not in the same class that Ramzay is talking about which would be 970M/980M machines.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Nov 22, 2015
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    If Asus had a 15 inch machine with high end graphics card, I'd have a very tough decision. I don't need a 17 inch laptop which weighs as much as a small moon but it's the only one with 980M and good/quiet cooling.
     
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    Packing a 980M into a lighter design requires some compromises at some point.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 18, 2015
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