THE NEW XPG Xenia 15 KC gaming laptop packs some serious punch for a slim portable PC. But wait! Isn’t XPG the performance brand of memory specialist Adata? Yes, it is—and the Xenia 15 KC is based on a 15-inch laptop chassis engineered by none other than Intel.
Flip the Xenia upside down and you’ll find an Intel Corp sticker and product code, which is no bad thing. Intel not only has the resources to engineer a laptop right in a general sense, but it also has access to more information than anyone else when it comes to optimizing a chassis design to suit its mobile CPUs.
The chassis in question has been around in some form since 2019. It’s mildly revised here and remains pretty sweet. Built largely from magnesium, it’s slim, slick, well built, and relatively portable at 1.94kg. It feels solid throughout with a particularly rigid keyboard bed. Speaking of which, that keyboard sports per-key RGB lighting, complemented by a slice of RGB lighting on the front of the chassis.
This story is from the January 2022 edition of Maximum PC.
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