Subjective Value Conclusion

I'm actually quite impressed with the AMD hardware package that Corsair has chosen to go with for the Voyager a1600. It has its own set of software that any AMD GPU or CPU user would be familiar with, and serves as a pretty decent base for everything else to work off of. That AMD hardware choice in and of itself sets the Voyager a1600 apart from so much of the competition for laptops of this caliber, as so many brands seem to favor Intel and NVIDIA for their hardware. The complete package AMD themselves refer to as AMD Advantage with bold claims of being made for gaming, and Corsair has made the most of it by choosing both an AMD APU and a discrete AMD GPU, paired with the high-refresh rate 240 Hz monitor.


As a daily laptop user myself, I can tell you that for me personally, the ergonomics change you are forced into by the inclusion of the "S-Keys" at the top is a welcome thing. With the inclusion of the Elgato dashboard software, there is a huge list of streaming-focused preset macros for you to chose from for those ten macro buttons, so what those ten added keys do for you is really going to be different for each user, and that's a great thing. They are only macro buttons, and many keyboards before have had them, albeit not really laptop keyboards.

So what we've got is ten macro buttons, and a tiny display in the middle of them. That display, by default, will show you the time, or battery percentage. There is also an option for CPU usage to be displayed here, but you have to hunt it down and enable it in the iCue software. The macro buttons offer huge flexibility, and I expected the same out of this display, but found it very limited. For example, showing FPS would be cool. Yet time, battery, and CPU usage currently seem to be the limit of its capabilities.


Windows Hello options begin with the moment you power on the Voyager a1600, since that power button is also a fingerprint reader. you also have the option of using the camera for Windows Hello features, so you can log into your Voyager a1600 securely. That keeps my kids off my laptop, but signing into it for me a breeze, so I appreciate those options indeed.