New chassis for Volta BGA mobile models?

I have had my p650rs-g since September of 2016, and I have totally loved this system. I’ve owned Alienware, MSI, Gigabyte, and Razer. While none have been perfect, my Clevo is closest. Almost perfect balance of portability, build quality, performance, internal access, and temps/noise. My only criticism is the CPU side exhaust.

I know it’s purely speculative, but does anyone foresee a chassis redesign incoming for Volta? After all, they used the exact same chassis for Maxwell and Pascal. In all honesty, I would love to see the exact same chassis, just with all exhaust in the rear and new components.

 

Usually if any big changes are made it's part of an overall change.

 

OEMs tend to keep prospective models, designs, technology, etc. under lock and key. Nothing, to my knowledge, has been confirmed or decried. Just gotta play the waiting game. The P6xx series was definitely a nice introduction, despite all the BGA hate.

 

I suspect the main changer/creator of chassis variations is TDP. The Skylake+Pascal combo was probably solely responsible for the creation of the P900 series. We've also got a lot of new weird and wonderful hardware coming this year. Particularly things like the Kaby-Lake-G and Ryzen Mobile which shift TDPs around a bit. The Kaby-Lake-G chip sounds like it could be a serious contender to sweep up the entire mid-low (GT1030 and GTX1050 territory) gaming market if priced correctly. Keep in mind, the inclusion of VEGA graphics would also mean the inclusion of FreeSync into those budget laptops which I would consider a huge selling point.

Otherwise, the P600 chassis is quite good but is showing it's age now so a refresh would be nice. That being said, the P900 goes a long way to replacing it so it's possible the P600 may be retired for something entirely new as well.

Ideally, I'm hoping for a somewhat thin (p650 sized) Ryzen 1700 (or whatever supersedes it) system with a theoretical 1160 or whatever equivalent Nvidia GPU in it.

 

The P9xx series was due to a desire for a thinner metalised casing.

 

True. Customers have always want thinner/lighter/metal ever since the MacBook came out. I'm just saying that it only became technically feasible after Skylake and Maxwell/Pascal to make such a device.