Gadgetory

forget about CES prototypes there's a crazy experimental gaming Beast you can buy right now it's the msi gt80 3 VR now this is a desktop replacement in the truest sense of the word the massive body is thick and it angles upward towards the 18 inch display that extra space is to accommodate the high-end parts and cooling needs that's because does not one but two NVIDIA GeForce 1080 graphics cards inside but even the double video card setup is not the most unusual thing about this laptop that would be the deep sense full mechanical keyboard it's the kind of thing you usually only see in dedicated standalone gaming keyboards and if that wasn't enough the touchpad gets moved from the traditional below the keyboard spot over to the right side it also doubles as a number pen with a tap on the corner it's a cool visual trick but the whole thing is not very practical because when you move a touchpad from where your fingers expect it to be you just confuse years of muscle memory there are a few other quirks the GT 83 VR requires 2 huge power bricks which sent around into a Y connector and that's a lot of extra cables even before you hook up a VR headset but if there was ever a laptop that seemed made for virtual reality gaming well this is it there's more performance overhead here than in most gaming desktops even though it's huge and kind of ugly I still like the thick binder like body in the chunky mechanical keyboard gives the whole thing kind of a retro feel less like a sleek modern laptop and more like a nuclear football being hustled to NORAD corridors in a 1960s Cold War thriller