Corsair makes PC parts, gaming equipment and gear for streamers. It additionally has a line of gaming desktops. The Corsair Voyager a1600 is its first gaming laptop computer and it basically combines all the firm’s product classes into one machine. Options from its Elgato streaming {hardware} and software program, RAM and storage from the parts enterprise, and wi-fi tech from its gaming keyboards, mice and headsets all make appearances within the Voyager a1600. 

It is a distinctive laptop computer made for avid gamers, creators and streamers. The Voyager a1600, with assist from AMD, additionally has efficiency to spare, which is fairly nice contemplating it is solely 19.8mm thick and weighs 5.Three kilos (2.4kg).  

Nice {hardware}

Corsair has 4 configurations for the Voyager a1600 beginning at $2,699, with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, AMD Radeon 6800M graphics, 16GB DDR5 reminiscence and a 1TB NVMe solid-state drive. It runs on Home windows 11 House. For $2,999, it is loaded with a Ryzen 9 6900HS and twice the reminiscence and storage of the bottom mannequin. A further $50 with both configuration strikes the OS as much as Home windows 11 Professional. 

That is not the tip of the choices, although. Origin PC, a customized PC-maker owned by Corsair, additionally sells the Voyager a1600. Purchase from Origin and the Voyager might be configured to your liking with as much as 64GB of RAM, one or two SSDs with a wide range of fashions and capacities to select from, and you’ll even have its black lid lined with considered one of 11 patterns. The configuration I am at present testing combines the Ryzen 7, the Radeon 6800M, 32GB of reminiscence and a quick 2TB Samsung SSD for $3,031 (£2,770, AU$4,813), which incorporates $65 for the faux-marble lid remedy.

Though we’re nonetheless testing out all this laptop computer can do, to date it is residing as much as AMD’s efficiency claims. Begin up a recreation and the discrete graphics take over, driving body charges screaming up over 100 per second on Guardians of the Galaxy and Shadow of the Tomb Raider on excessive settings at 1440p in our testing. On CS:GO, the laptop computer can hit over 280fps in keeping with Corsair, and that permits you to take full benefit of the show’s 240Hz refresh price. 

Beneath load and with the followers on full blast, the Voyager stays cool on the left and proper sides of the laptop computer, holding your palms snug whereas gaming. It does get heat down the center of the keyboard, significantly towards the highest. The followers are loud however that is what you get with skinny, highly effective laptops.

The laptop computer has a big 99Wh battery that lasted 5 hours, Four minutes on our streaming video battery rundown take a look at with each the show brightness and quantity by means of earbuds set to 50%. Although it comes with a 230-watt adapter for gaming energy and charging, the Voyager might be charged by way of USB-C with a 100-watt adapter.  

All configurations include a 240Hz, 2,560×1,600-pixel, 16-inch IPS show. It is a good display general, particularly in case your important considerations are a excessive refresh price for easy graphics and simpler goal monitoring with 1440p gaming. However when you want broad coloration gamut protection, it solely hits 75% of Adobe RGB and DCI-P3, 69% NTSC and 97% sRGB, and brightness measured at 359 nits. For these occasions whenever you want one thing brighter with higher coloration replica, it does have three USB-C ports with Thunderbolt assist for an exterior show or three.

The combo of the massive 16:10 show and the oddly tall hinges give the physique a peculiar look — and strange dimensions for squeezing right into a backpack’s laptop computer compartment. The cutout under the show is there to accommodate the S-Key Macro Bar, a strip of 10 programmable macro keys with a small coloration show in between them. The bar works with Elgato’s Stream Deck software program, letting you create macro keys with easy drag-and-drop programming for the whole lot from utilizing OBS streaming software program to opening an app or web site to enjoying a sound impact or triggering a voice changer. 

For the keyboard, Corsair used ultralow-profile Cherry MX mechanical switches. The clicky change provides you good tactile suggestions for typing and gaming. Despite the fact that the keys are clicky, they don’t seem to be so loud that you just’d be disturbing anybody round you. And, naturally, there are lights. The keyboard has per-key RGB lighting, utterly programmable with Corsair’s iCue software program.

The graceful touchpad under it’s gigantic. So massive, in reality, that tapping the higher proper nook of it a few occasions shuts down the appropriate half of the touchpad so you do not by accident transfer your cursor together with your palm whereas gaming. A double faucet within the higher left nook shuts the pad down solely. 

Nevertheless, when you do not need to use both, a receiver for Corsair’s Slipstream Wi-fi-compatible peripherals is in-built. It helps as much as three units without delay so you possibly can join a mouse, keyboard and gaming headset with out having to attach three separate USB receivers. It is like having the comfort of Bluetooth however with the low-latency velocity and stability of a 2.4GHz wi-fi receiver. 

Software program to match

The entire nice {hardware} packed within the Voyager would not be almost as robust if it did not have some useful software program to go together with it. The AMD Radeon Software program: Adrenalin Version, as an illustration, has a number of choices to get probably the most from the CPU and built-in and discrete graphics. Activate AMD SmartShift Max and the laptop computer will robotically stability energy between the parts relying when you want extra efficiency from the GPU or processor. 

Equally, SmartShift Eco saves battery life through the use of the built-in graphics when the laptop computer’s unplugged and strikes again to the discrete graphics when linked to the ability adapter. There are a number of different options to experiment with to enhance efficiency on or off battery energy, cut back enter lag and sharpen picture element. 

Becoming a member of the Elgato Stream Deck is Corsair’s iCue software program from its gaming peripherals. This app is used for altering the keyboard lights, making key assignments and connecting Corsair wi-fi mice, keyboards and headsets. Then there’s the Elgato Digicam Hub that permits you to get management of the built-in 1080p webcam so you possibly can regulate brightness, saturation, publicity and white stability. The digicam’s picture high quality is sweet, somewhat on the noisy facet, however sharp with good element. (There’s additionally an IR digicam for unlocking the laptop computer with face recognition in addition to a sliding privateness shutter to dam the digicam solely.) 

Audio out and in is stable, too. The upward-firing audio system that flank the keyboard are supported by Dolby Atmos processing and have a delightful, clear sound to them. They’re going to be effective for informal listening or convention calls, however for the rest, you will need exterior audio system or a headset (a pair by Corsair, maybe). The built-in mics delivered spectacular outcomes, so streamers will sound good even with out an exterior mic. 

All of this provides as much as a gaming laptop computer that units itself aside for greater than its seems to be and efficiency, though the design does stand out in a crowd, too. It is an all-in-one transportable resolution for avid gamers and streamers, positive. However even when you’re not planning to stream gameplay or be a creator, the Stream Deck software program and assignable macro buttons turn out to be useful for the whole lot from ending a Zoom name to launching Spotify. Plus, it features a one-year guarantee and lifelong 24/7 tech assist service. 

We’ll be again quickly with a full, rated overview as soon as we wrap up testing. To this point, although, it is a stable first laptop computer from Corsair, AMD and Origin PC.

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