High-performance gaming laptops utilized to beryllium dense and clunky. But implicit the years, laptop makers person slimmed down show bezels, millimeter by millimeter, to springiness america gaming laptops with larger displays successful much compact bodies. 16:10-ratio panels have besides go the norm, replacing the 16:9 ratio. Though the displays would get bigger, going from 15.6 inches to 16 inches, the laptop stays the aforesaid size oregon tin adjacent sometimes get much compact. And who tin reason with getting much surface successful a smaller body?

Now the aforesaid happening is happening to 17.3-inch gaming laptops. At CES 2023, a caller batch of 18-inch gaming laptops was announced from Alienware, Acer, Asus and Razer. Also, portion Lenovo, HP and MSI didn't unveil immoderate 18-inch models for the show, I'm definite that won't beryllium the lawsuit for long. 

Wide-screen, 17.3-inch displays aren't extinct yet, though. Acer announced updated Nitro gaming laptop models with Intel and AMD processors, portion Asus refreshed its Strix Scar 17 and Strix G17 models for 2023 arsenic well. But with Acer, Asus and others loading up connected caller 16- and 18-inch gaming laptops, it looks similar the days are numbered for 17.3-inch models (and 15.6-inch ones too). Here's the archetypal harvest of 18-inchers that showed up for CES 2023. 

Also read: Best Gaming Laptops astatine CES, From Performance Beasts to Budget Gems

Asus ROG Strix Scar 18

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We're not amazed to spot Asus beryllium 1 of the archetypal to denote an 18-inch gaming laptop; the institution is regularly up of the curve. The ROG Strix Scar 18 (it besides comes successful a 16-inch model), uses the other size for higher-performance components and a almighty cooling strategy to instrumentality vantage of each they tin do. The preproduction exemplary we saw had a semitransparent keyboard platform truthful you tin spot what's inside.

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Acer Predator Helios 18

Acer

The Predator Helios 18 volition diagnostic the latest 13th-gen Intel Core processors, Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 bid graphics, enhanced cooling and beauteous large displays, positive a full batch of lights. Along with the caller processors and GPUs, they'll enactment up to 32GB of DDR5-4800 RAM and up to 2TB successful PCIe Gen4 NVMe solid-state drives successful RAID 0. The Helios 18 volition travel with 3 2,560x1,600-pixel show options with a 165Hz oregon 240Hz refresh rate, oregon a Mini LED sheet with a 250Hz refresh rate, 100% P3 colour gamut and a highest brightness implicit 1,000 nits. There'll besides beryllium an entry-level 1,920x1,200-pixel show astatine 165Hz. 

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Razer Blade 18

Razer

Razer is billing the Blade 18 arsenic the eventual desktop replacement, and it mightiness conscionable be. It's surely going to beryllium 1 of the thinnest and astir almighty 18-inch laptops available, with up to a 13th-gen Intel Core i9 HX processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics. It'll person a 1440p-plus 240Hz show with 100% P3 colour gamut coverage. 

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Alienware m18

The m18 is an awesome 18-inch laptop, which you tin load up with your prime of Intel oregon AMD processors and Nvidia oregon Radeon graphics. To support the components cool, Alienware utilized 7 vigor pipes and 4 fans, portion keeping the aforesaid assemblage thickness arsenic past year's m17. The m18 has a full-size keyboard and fig pad with optional Cherry MX mechanical keys, positive dual user-replaceable DDR5 SO-DIMM slots and up to 9TB of imaginable storage. Alienware volition connection it with either a 165Hz 2,560x1,600-pixel solution oregon a 480Hz 1,920x1,200-pixel resolution. 

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