Where have all the new gaming notebooks gone? We asked as many major manufacturers as we could and everyone gave the same response.

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The Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year was an awkward period for enthusiast gaming notebooks. With Coffee Lake-H not set to arrive until Q2 2018 at the earliest and no new GeForce graphics cards from Nvidia, laptop makers had zero reason to show off refreshed chassis designs for their existing gaming lineups. Instead, most manufacturers omitted high-end gaming laptops completely from the show floor or only presented known models that are already available in the market.

It's true that laptop makers now have Kaby Lake-G to work with, but the Intel-AMD hybrid technology came out of left field and is more oriented towards mainstream users and small form factor PCs rather than for weighty high-end gaming machines like the Acer Predator series, MSI GT series, Aorus series, or Alienware series.

We visited each major manufacturer as listed below with one simple question in mind and their responses were unanimous. In short, all manufacturers are essentially waiting on Intel to announce the true successor to the Kaby Lake HQ series next quarter before publicly revealing their respective notebook redesigns. Until then, manufacturers can only hint at what they have under the curtains.