I feel like overclockability is the last thing Nvidia should be focusing on for laptops. The trade-off for overclocking is heat generation which is undesirable for laptops by far. These cards generate a lot of heat as is.
I don't think people are expecting these to be laptops, exactly. More like very portable "desktops". I know a lot of people in the VR community are going bonkers over this announcement. It's going to make setting up demos a hell of a lot easier. Nvidia's Optimus technology (don't ask me what it was for, I could never keep it straight) was a serious impediment to achieve low tracking latency, to the point of being downright impossible. I even once returned a laptop with a 980M the same day I got it after I found out Optimus basically made it useless to use with my DK2.
I probably won't buy one of these. I'll probably just stuff my desktop into an aluminum case suitcase. But you could pull the battery out and throw it away for all the VR folks care. This will get setup on a table at conferences by a lot of people.
I probably won't buy one of these. I'll probably just stuff my desktop into an aluminum case suitcase. But you could pull the battery out and throw it away for all the VR folks care. This will get setup on a table at conferences by a lot of people.