17" notebooks not a thing anymore?

[Bill_Bright]

I have been on several flights where we had no choice where to put it. If you have a seat at the front of the cabin, for example, there is a wall/partition in front of you. No seat to put anything under. The overhead is the only choice. I have also been on small "puddle jumpers" that had no overhead compartments.

I have no problem with the overhead as long as I can stow it in an overhead I can keep my eyes on.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I would generally go for the largest diagonal screen size as long as the over all cube size wasn't an issue.
17" diagonal screen is nice

 

[bug]

Please note the OP said nothing about flying. Or even the laptop having to leave the house for that matter.

 

[ty_ger]

Hi,
All it sounds like to me is your personal preference rather than anything enforced by tsa or abroad lol

No, it is enforced. I tried. It was a huge pain in the butt. It doesn't fit under the seat, so you have to try to put it into an overhead bin. And if there is no overhead bin space, you have to convince everyone why your bag is more important than someone else's bag. And then if you get onto a smaller commuter where a typical carry-on bag doesn't fit in the overhead bin, you are screwed. You have to hope that the battery is removable and take the battery with you, or lie about what is in your bag in order to check it down below.

It is no good. I have done it many times. I used to travel every 2 to 4 weeks with a laptop which I thought wasn't too big.

This other user said it is fine as long as they bribe a person in line and hide what they have. That sounds legit to you? It's just a matter of preference to purposely circumvent safety regulations?

Please note the OP said nothing about flying. Or even the laptop having to leave the house for that matter.

Correct. But their question was 'why are they unpopular and hard to find?'. I replied with some examples of why they are hard to market and hard to live with. Just because the OP doesn't fly with their laptop or leave home with their laptop doesn't change the fact that manufacturers design their products to meet market demand. I'm sure that I am not the only person who used to have a 17" laptop and vowed to never buy one again. For one reason or another, I am sure others have made the same decision, demand subsided, and now it is hard to find a manufacturer who makes one.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Unfortunately very few, and mostly either gimmicky or "gaming" laptops with really poor specs and sky high prices. I think the last luxury, high-end 17-inch laptop was the 2011 MacBook Pro. That's a 13 year old computer by now.

MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.4 17" Late 2011 Specs (Late 2011 17", MD311LL/A, MacBookPro8,3, A1297, 2564*): EveryMac.com

Technical specifications for the MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.4 17" Late 2011. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.

everymac.com

Ironically, 17 inch laptops went out of style around the same time Apple stopped selling this particular machine. In 2012 only the 13 and 15 inch models were updated with Ivy Bridge alongside the first-generation Retina that was slimmer, and then the other laptop makers followed suit with the thin and light craze, performance, reliability, and servicing be utterly damned.

You might be able to find something nice in the 17 to 21 inch range if you specifically look for DTR (desktop replacement) class custom laptops, but those are often built to order from a chassis and you're going to spend a lot of money on them.

 

[lambda]

I understand that it's probably not what you're looking for but take a look at the Legion Slim 7i (or without i for AMD).

Decent build quality and fairly portable but it's a 16inch device.