Gaming Laptop

[leeneel]

Complete waste of your money OP.

Gaming laptops are shite and if you want to game then do so on a desktop.

 

[1961_vintage]

Wouldn't you be better-off with an XBox or PS?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Wouldn't you be better-off with an XBox or PS?

I was going to ask that - especially in view of the money involved.

 

[TCIB]

Does it have to be a gaming lappy? even the very very best have to make serious compromises, mainly for cooling reasons. They get very hot which shortens the lifespan of the device. For the cost, a self built desktop (or even pre-built) will crush a gaming lappy. Also the noise, the fans will be going apeshit almost constantly. Gaming and laptops are a bad mix really as a general rule of thumb.

Upgrading parts is basically not possible either, everything is custom built to fit very specific tight spaces. When it goes it goes as repairs are often to expensive to justify the cost to benefit.

 

[idahoblues]

I bought one of those new iPad Air thingies with a shit load of memory, would that be any good for what you want to do ?

 

[grunge]

8gb ram isn’t enough, increase that to at least 16.

 

[leeneel]

Does it have to be a gaming lappy? even the very very best have to make serious compromises, mainly for cooling reasons. They get very hot which shortens the lifespan of the device. For the cost, a self built desktop (or even pre-built) will crush a gaming lappy. Also the noise, the fans will be going apeshit almost constantly. Gaming and laptops are a bad mix really as a general rule of thumb.

Upgrading parts is basically not possible either, everything is custom built to fit very specific tight spaces. When it goes it goes as repairs are often to expensive to justify the cost to benefit.

Heat, noise and throttling of either CPU/GPU or both for stupid money.

 

[Paladin]

I did that and switched pretty quickly. It will deliver on performance, but you'll find that things like the screen are usually sub-par for those sort of things. Mine had a 144Hz screen, which is great for gaming, but the colour accuracy isn't really good enough for any serious editing. If it's just a hobby, they'll be fine.

But honestly, I would buy one of the new M1 Macbooks for this sort of thing. They blow anything else out of the water in terms of performance for price on these sorts of tasks now (don't look at on-paper specs, watch videos of people actually rendering videos and seeing how long it takes - the new £1k Macbooks outperform ones from a year ago that cost £4k). I switched a month ago, and it was cheaper, it's faster, the battery lasts over three times longer, the screen is much better, and it's silent, whereas my Asus sounded like a jumbo jet taking off every time I started up Google Chrome, never mind anything more demanding.

Thanks for the info. I'll definitely consider one of these.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I'd agree that gaming laptops are a bit of a failed concept. If you only play fairly low spec games and you need a laptop for travelling and want to play some of these games then maybe. But you are not going to get any decent games working well unless you drop a massive amount (it needs a high spec screen as well as the CPU/GPU combo). High end components like that need lots of power so it will need a big battery that would get drained fast by games. Even then you have to think that its either going to get very hot or need massive air flow to keep it cool. Long term that is not going to function well.

 

[shevtheblue]

I'd agree that gaming laptops are a bit of a failed concept. If you only play fairly low spec games and you need a laptop for travelling and want to play some of these games then maybe. But you are not going to get any decent games working well unless you drop a massive amount (it needs a high spec screen as well as the CPU/GPU combo). High end components like that need lots of power so it will need a big battery that would get drained fast by games. Even then you have to think that its either going to get very hot or need massive air flow to keep it cool. Long term that is not going to function well.

Its pretty pointless, if you really need a laptop (and want to game on it) then IMO you should be looking for whatever laptop is best for whichever reason you need it in the first place (spreadsheets, creativity etc) and then go to cloud gaming. GEforce Now will give you a rig with a GPU that's capable of playing RTX at 60fps and if you, for some off reason, want to play competitive then you can knock it down to 720p and get (i think) 120fps. But gaming on a laptop seems a bit silly.