Big laptops are nothing new - Apple had a 17-inch MacBook Pro that was one of the first Thunderbolt-equipped Macs, but that was discontinued in 2012. Right now, though, there's a crop of supremely powerful 18-inch gaming laptops on the market offering desktop-rivalling specs and eye-watering prices. This is one of them.
You get a lot for your money, with Intel’s latest (at the time of writing) Raptor Lake Refresh i9 chip and a whole RTX 4090 to push the pixels. There's 32GB of RAM - which might actually be a little small for the kinds of creative workloads you could use this for, and a 64GB model is available if you spec it - plus 2TB of SSD internal storage. It’s aimed at gamers, you can tell from the rainbow keyboard, but contains the sort of processing power that’s going to make After Effects wizards and Blender fans look over with interest. It’s not subtle and despite being a laptop it’s not exactly portable; people are going to notice when you clump it on the table in a coffee shop, and once the fans start spinning you might be asked to leave.
