Corsair is pretty late to the portable party, but it’s now expanded beyond the gaming PC space with its very first gaming laptop. The Corsair Voyager a1600, as it’s called, is powered by the AMD Advantage platform and builds off everything the company has learned in its endeavours, from the Elgato Stream Deck to the best wireless gaming mouse in its portfolio.
Since this is both a first and a flagship, Corsair goes in hard with its specs. The Corsair Voyager a1600 packs up to 64GB of RAM, up to 2TB of storage, an eight-core, 16-thread AMD processor, and a Radeon RX 6800M GPU, which should be more than enough for any current gamer, streamer, or content creator on-the-go.
Being a part of the AMD Advantage range means the Corsair Voyager a1600 has access to new features like Smartshift Max, Smartshift Eco, and an improved Smart Access Memory (SAM) that allows the gaming CPU and graphics card to better work together. It’s all designed to make use of every pixel in its 2,560 x 1,600 IPS screen and push every frame out of the 240Hz refresh rate, although we won’t be able to comment on its real-world performance until we get a hands-on.
The most distinctive feature of the laptop that sets it apart from its competition is the extended hinge, which makes room for ten ‘S-keys’. These are macro keys based on the Elgato Stream Deck software, enabling you to boot applications, switch scenes in OBS, or add to your host of custom keybinds in-game. It also handily shows the battery life so you’re never caught short, even while playing.
If you happen to own any cordless Corsair peripherals over the past few years, the laptop has an integrated Slipstream dongle that connects up to three wireless Corsair peripherals. And if you don’t, the
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