Dell Breaks Out Updated Budget Gaming Laptops As G Series

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The G3 15 is extremely thin for a budget gaming laptop.

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Dell's experiment with mainstream gaming laptops obviously went well. It just rebranded and redesigned its Inspiron 15 Gaming models as the G series, adding a new 17-inch version, along with updating them to the latest eighth-generation mobile Core i-series processors, including the six-core options.

The entry-level price for du lịch bắc kinh the line remains $750, for bắc kinh the low-end G3. (UK and Australian prices are TBA but that converts to about £530 or AU$1,000.) This series now goes up to the six-core i7s and as high as a Core i9 in the top-end G7. One of the important ways they remain different from Dell's gaming-focused Alienware brand is the GPU options, which run only from a Nvidia GTX 1050 to a GTX 1060 Max-Q for the G models. 

The G5 and G7 look somewhat similar to the previous model, with the big grilles in front and back for ventilation, but the entry-level G3 looks a lot more like the latest mainstream Inspirons, with touches like the patterned keyboard surround and notably slim profile for a gaming system.