As CES 2017 comes to an end, there were some exceptional products shown off at this year’s show. However, certain things presented in the show stood out to me the most. As an avid gamer, I tend to look for new laptops, computers, and other general gaming projects to buy.
Some of these projects in particular, like Razer’s Project Valerie, Ariana, and MSI’s Titan laptop are in my opinion some of the most innovative computers and projects to be released to date.
All these productions are especially exciting as most of them are very useful in terms of laptop gaming. However, after looking at price tag, I realized, not only that I will never be graced by the possession of any of this equipment, but that only the richest and the most famous gamers could ever invest in something that is as pricey as one of these products.
Outside of Project Valerie and Ariana, which have tentative price ranges, the lowest priced laptop, the MSI Titan, varies from $4,000 to $6,000. At best, you are paying around $4,000 for a laptop that would essentially have the same performance as a desktop PC, that would cost considerably less than these atrocites. It is so much more cost effective to buy a PC that is much less expensive and essentially does the same thing.
Companies should stop making these ridiculous projects with the sole purpose of having excessively expensive specs. An example of such an extravangant device is the 21x which has a curved monitor, two GTX 1080 screens that weigh twenty pounds, and costs a whopping $9,000 dollars.
Who in their right mind would buy that? It weighs so much it might as well be a desktop PC. Could you imagine anyone who would move around a twenty pound laptop? The fact that these outrageous products were even presented at CES 2017 tells me that these companies were simply trying to outdo the others without considering the true interests of majority gamers. All of their products have nonsensical specs with little to no thought on the actual accessibility of the product. This is an ineffective way of going about technicalities.
An actual relative approach to this might be in building something that is actually useable in today’s world while remaining affordable. A price tag of nearly $10,000 will definitely scare away many potential customers who cannot afford this.