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These guys took out an ad in The Wall Street journal drumming up hype for this release.

Guys: I can buy a Sony Playstation 3 for a little over $200. Call it $300.

I can then buy an large television for $1000, and a solid set of speakers for $200.

That's $1500 all-in, for something that will play every single PS3 game flawlessly.

Why would I spend $2800 on this? What I am getting for $1300?

If it's the variety of PC games like minecraft, I can throw an additional $500 at a low-end gaming PC, hook it to my television, and play console and PC games.

A gaming laptop? Why?

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Selling expensive products to rich people is a lot easier than selling affordable products to poor people.

Which reminds me of the statistics for Android vs. iPhone app sales.

And usually more profitable, I bet.

I doubt it, you don't have that many rich people to sell to.

You seem to be under the mis-impression that there isn't already a market for gaming laptops. There is. Go to almost any laptop makers page and you'll find a whole section devoted to "gaming laptops". Hell, it's part of how Alienware made their name.

Most of them unfortunately have a reputation for being enormously heavy and bulky, and for generating inferno levels of heat. But people do still buy them. If this thing really does have competitive performance to the current top end gaming laptops and is as thin and nice looking as those pictures make it seem, I think they've got a real winner on their hands.

You can actually get a laptop with the same specs for about 900€. (the only thing that missed is the little touch screen on the right, and the 17", it was 15.6)

The screen size is a pretty big difference -- the 17.3" is just under 23% bigger (in terms of surface area) than the 15.6. Of course, that's not $1500 worth of difference.

I'd be interested to know where you found that, though. Newegg has exactly five laptops with 15.3"+ 1920x1080 screens with CPUs clocked for at least 2.5GHz. All are $1560+, which is about $200 more than 900 Euro. Two are out-of-stock Toughbooks, two are recertified MBPs, and one is an absolute beast of an Asus that still has substantially lower specs than this thing. You may have found me my next laptop, assuming it will ship to someone I know.

If I remember correctly, should be an HP (sorry I can't find that damn model). I live in Italy, and I saw it in an Euronics ad.

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