How much grief will it be ....

irtuk · 6 Apr 2016 at 18:44

To carry one of these through an airport twice a week.

Any ASUS reps here who have tried to put this through a baggage scanner, liquids, wires, batteries, etc....

Craig321 · 6 Apr 2016 at 18:45

Laptop itself won't be an issue, but I doubt the cooling part will get through, in fact I would bet it won't. Should be fine in your checked in bags though.

pepp77 · 6 Apr 2016 at 18:46

Its fine, you just need to take it out of a bag and put it through the scanner in a tray on its own. Also ensure it has charge when you get to the airport in case they spot check you and it needs to be turned on.

Edit - missed the liquid cooling addon part. This does sound like it would have to go in to the hold.

irtuk · 6 Apr 2016 at 18:57

Yeah I am thinking that the laptop MUST contain coolant when disconnected from the docking station or you would get huge issues with air bubbles in the loop.

I dont want to get one of these then find its continually being opened and tinkered with by security people, hold or no i think its going to raise a red flag

clockwork.satan · 7 Apr 2016 at 14:54

I would also be wary of the weight, as the laptop in itself will be heavy but combined with the cooling statiion bit it'll be beastly heavy. I wouldn't even want to lug my Asus G751 (previous generation model) around too much.

d_brennen · 7 Apr 2016 at 15:07

Could you not just leave the cooling part behind and sacrifice a bit of performance?

The blurb suggests so

ROG GX700 is the world's first gaming laptop with a detachable liquid-cooling module for extreme overclocking. With the liquid-cooling dock attached, you can overclock GX700 to gaming desktop-like levels of performance. On its own, it packs quite a punch, and easily outperforms other gaming laptops on the market. It even fits snugly in your backpack, so you can dominate LAN parties too.

REALLY not worth the hassle bringing it everywhere imo

Meaker · 8 Apr 2016 at 02:59

The laptop is fine (there is fluid in heatpipes for instance, since it's in copper tube then meh).

The dock would maybe be an issue but leave that at home.

irtuk · 9 Apr 2016 at 09:34

oh cool. I had no idea that conventional heat pipes contained fluid. That makes it a straight choice between this and the Aorus X7 DT as the aesthetics of the MSI machines don't really suit me.

Harold_Bishop · 11 Apr 2016 at 10:37

clockwork.satan said:
I would also be wary of the weight, as the laptop in itself will be heavy but combined with the cooling statiion bit it'll be beastly heavy. I wouldn't even want to lug my Asus G751 (previous generation model) around too much.

I very much doubt airport security care how heavy it is.