Introduction

XMG has been at the forefront of introducing legendary laptops with watercooling for some time now. With a focus on high-end portable gaming, XMG has specialized in products that many might consider “halo” products. XMG just makes such products the norm, and manages to do so quite well, something you almost have to personally experience in order to understand. It is really not that easy to constantly live at the bleeding edge of technology while staying elegant, so when you add in the focus on high-end portability as well, things can become extremely complex and you’ve got a big problem to solve… just how do you really keep it all quiet?

The XMG NEO 17 (E23) is a laptop that takes both Intel and NVIDIA high-end mobile parts and adds in a splash of water to that problem of staying quiet. It’s truly usable watercooling, with a big pay off – a huge reduction in operating noise. That’s quite important, because when you take everything high-end and mobile, and cram it into a thin chassis, there’s plenty of heat to be removed from this current generation of hardware. Here’s what XMG says about their choice of GPUs:

“All graphics cards available in the NEO 17 work with their maximum specified TGP in order to fully release their full performance potential. The top-of-the-line trim features the groundbreaking NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, the fastest laptop GPU ever, with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and a sustained TGP of up to 175 watts for demanding ray tracing, high-resolution graphics detail, and extreme 3D acceleration: perfect for gaming and content creation. AI-based technologies such as DLSS 3 provide you with unprecedented FPS values even at maximum resolution settings.”

XMG is really set on providing us with the top-end of mobile NVIDIA GPUs, with some fairly significant 175 W power limits, stuffed into a rather thin chassis, that can optionally also include a mechanical keyboard. Yes, optional, as you can choose a more quiet membrane-based option as well if that is what you would prefer. XMG is about providing you with choices, after all. All of that combines with the Core i9-13900HX, which features 24 cores and 32 threads, while offering 55 W + power use, with user-adjustable limits. Add in a 240 Hz 2560×1600 17-inch G-SYNC capable display, and you’ve got the full run of high-end specifications crammed into a chassis that’s barely an inch (27 mm) thick. That’s where the OASIS watercooling comes in, an add-on accessory that not only lets the XMG NEO 17 operate full guns blazing 24/7, but also lets it do so fairly quietly, so you get a true high-end gaming experience, without any compromises with noise. New with the XMG NEO 17 (E23) is compatibility with XMG’s latest XMG OASIS cooler, an external watercooling solution chock full of RGB while also updated to further reduce noise with a new fan and a quieter pump, an easier-to-fill reservoir, and a new type of connection, all while still in the same relatively small form factor. There’s plenty of updates to XMG’s NEO 17 for 2023 all around! Full specifications below: