lightweight 17inch with 4K screen?

[Badger_grr]

As per title are there any options out there for a lightweight 17 inch laptop with a 4K screen? Having difficulty finding many.
Metal chassis is preferable as well.

It doesn't need to be a beast but some mid range gaming would be great.
I think only MSI are going to have something suitable, their website it atrocious at filtering results to compare their vast range though!

Any ideas?

 

[VRMadness]

Why do you need a 4K screen ?

 

[Loki]

At the moment you will struggle to find 17.3" and 4K screen from any manufacturer. 15.6" no problem

 

[Badger_grr]

At the moment you will struggle to find 17.3" and 4K screen from any manufacturer. 15.6" no problem

That's what I don't understand, if there are 15.6 4K screens how can there not be any for 17, should be the other way round I would have thought! I can see individual pixels on 1080p 15.6", I will definitely need higher resolution on 17. Would be great for looking at dslr photos too.

 

[nightmare99]

17" screens have a much lower market share than 15.6".

 

[gradyhawks]

lightweight

4K screen

Metal chassis is preferable

some mid range gaming would be great

And you're wondering why you are having trouble looking for something?

 

[deFiniLoGy]

The closest I can think of is the 14" prosumer flagship, Fujitsu U904 that I just bought.

But it's not that near 4K, it's a 1800p.

Another option would be Dell XPS 13, but I don't think there's a 17" ultrabook with a 4K monitor yet??

 

[VRMadness]

Gaming on 4K is not viable for laptops anyway just stick to 1080P.

 

[Minstadave]

A hi-res screen is beautiful though, for desktop use, especially at 17" you'd want something over 1080P.

 

[Minstadave]

The closest I can think of is the 14" prosumer flagship, Fujitsu U904 that I just bought.

But it's not that near 4K, it's a 1800p.

Another option would be Dell XPS 13, but I don't think there's a 17" ultrabook with a 4K monitor yet??

XPS 13 is 3200x1800 too and only has intel HD graphics.

 

[Badger_grr]

Gaming on 4K is not viable for laptops anyway just stick to 1080P.

Not interested in gaming at 4K. Useful for photo editing though.

A hi-res screen is beautiful though, for desktop use, especially at 17" you'd want something over 1080P.

Definitely, I don't think 1080p on 15" is great, at 17" would look awful to me.

My next laptop will definitely be 17" so I will just have to wait. Hopefully a Clevo chassis refresh with Skylake will bring 4K 17" options.