Buying a laptop for me has always been a "wait out the clock" situation since in another 3-6 months there would be a new innovation or they'd somehow manage to toss a bit more horsepower in an even smaller package to close the gap between desktop and mobile performance. The 480M Fermi cards were about 40% of what the comparable card was in a desktop package, the 680M sat at about the 60% mark, and the 980M was about 80% of what you'd get with a desktop. That gap has been closed. With the GTX 10 series, the performance you'd find in a desktop is now mobile and it is blazing. It isn't a gimmick or a tag line, it's outstanding FPS at max settings with pretty much any game you throw at it and MSI handles it with a flair that puts all that performance at your fingertips with real-time system monitoring and an on-the-fly system tuner. I weighed the options of the 1060, 1070, and 1080 benchmarks and figured if I was buying a laptop that would (hopefully) last a few years then the beefier specs would carry it a bit further down the road. With the GTX 1080 (sporting a whopping 8GB of GDDR5X RAM on it's own), Intel's i7-6820HK, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD for your OS and another 1TB for storage - this thing is definitely an eight pound beast, but it's a marvel to watch once it starts to gallop.