Redpill me on gaming laptops. Why does Yas Forums hate them?
Redpill me on gaming laptops. Why does Yas Forums hate them?
Xavier Jenkins
Henry Bennett
They are overpriced and you look retarded using one, the "on the go" mentality is not for gaming, and you look like a faggot using one
Elijah Fisher
Prebuilts are cringe
They overheat frequently
Trackpads are shit
Laptop keyboards are shit
Can't upgrade them, just have to buy a brand new one every 2 years
Nathan Hall
Overpriced, shit cooling and shit battery life
Jordan Cooper
Shit cooling primarily, but hey girls won't think you're cool if you have a desktop, so go for it bro.
Henry Carter
fpbp. "on the go" is a faggy phrase used by bugmen with such incredibly short attention spans that they must be able to play vidya in every single situation
Noah Nelson
1. Overpriced
2. Inferior hardware, downthrottled or Max-Q style design to meet PSU and temperature demands
3. Always run hot despite previous concessions
4. Fewer IO
5. Inferior Screen
6. Chiklet Keyboard
7. Case designed poorly, and assembled worse.
Alexander White
The only people who would benefit from these expensive, powerful laptops would be DJs/Music Producers. Why would I want to game in a public place looking like a spazz with my headphones, mouse and all that shit?
Carter Hughes
Imagine all the worst aspects of a console for quintuple the price.
Adrian Clark
They’re people with lives outside their home, so Yas Forums hates them. The poorfags also like to screech “overpriced” despite ignoring the fact that with a laptop youre not just paying for specs, you’re paying for convenience, portability, a keyboard, a monitor, etc.
Thomas Bailey
Weaker computer at higher cost, most have heating issues but good laptops have no problem.
They're only worth considering if you travel a lot.
Wyatt Sanders
They are fine if you have a lifestyle where you move around a lot, but if it's gonna be on your desk 90% of the time, or you're not playing games while you have it on the go, it's not worth it
Kayden Howard
>They’re people with lives outside their home
Not if all theyre doing outside their home is playing vidya on their 10lb laptop lol
Brandon Morris
just get an old optiplex and throw a gpu in it. bam, better than what you'll get from most laptops and consoles for only 350 buckos.
Nathaniel Davis
>not building a system tailored to your specific needs
prebuilts are the antithesis to pc gaming. if you go prebuilt, you might as well just get a console instead.
Michael Reyes
gaming laptops ar garbage but for some reason I wanna check out getting a SFF PC and seeing what I can do with it.
Thomas Miller
good for a long deployment in military, or in any other case where youre going to be in a location away from your home for an extended period of time.
Wyatt Bell
Expensive, non modular (kinda) and they have a tendency to overheat.
Wyatt Perry
based as fuck for old games, I play gamecube games on my ubuntu x220 every day
Liam Myers
Surface Book 2 (13.5 in) is kino for emulation and shit like Dolphin/Project M and also media consumption. Also could do some light gaming like Halo MCC, CS, and now Valorant. I'd wait to see what the Surface Book 3 has to offer this year though.
Jaxon Reyes
Super expensive for what they are, can't be easily upgraded like a custom PC and gets fucking hot.
Michael Robinson
Please nigga. Everyone gets the same build lmao
Robert White
Mine usually last 5. I get buy them because I can bring it to work and play games there in my down time or when I travel.
They're really not overpriced, especially not recently. If you want to talk overpriced, we should talk about Apple.
Caleb Hall
Good for long visits to family. And good for bringing to friends houses vs lugging a tower.
An ok gaming laptop found at a decent price makes a great spare pc. Spending a thousand dollars on one as your main "rig" is retarded.
Austin White
Try running your gaming laptop for 8 hours straight of playing a demanding game.
Grayson Jenkins
they make my balls sweat
Jacob Sanders
Gaming laptops are the handhelds of PC gaming.
Jaxon Thompson
Because Yas Forums doesn't leave the basement. Gaming laptops are great of you are always on the move and need something for work. Something like college,military, firefighters, traveling for business a gaming laptop would be ideal. But if your doing a regular job and coming home to game a regular PC is better.
Jose Rodriguez
Because they're not the things they like and more importantly own. That's as far as the actual "hating" crowd goes. I think most people don't actually have any fucks to give about being emotional over the gaming laptop vs desktop argument.
Blake Johnson
You can't handheld a fucking laptop no matter how small it is.
Tyler Gutierrez
Loud as fuck and run hot. I got a laptop for work with an 8750h (high priced not cheap either), and while rendering/playing anything the fan is a fucking turbine and i have to use noise cancelling headphones. If theres anyone around me then fuck their ears.
Easton Watson
This, Eluktronics Max-15 is a great priced laptop with good specs. They are releasing a new "covert" line without any logos too with a 2060, 240hz screen with thin bezels, i7 10th gen, good battery, and light weight for around $1600. I'd say that's the perfect laptop to use a mobile alternative when traveling to friends/family
Jaxon Price
>Why does Yas Forums hate them?
Yas Forums isn't a hivemind with 1 opinion.
Parker Evans
>Spend 3 grand on a gaming laptop
>Actually completely worthless in 8 years
>Have to spend 3 grand on a gaming laptop again
If you spent 3 grand on a desktop, you'll always have a solid base to upgrade from.
Luis Ramirez
Useful if you travel a lot for work, are backpacking or just move around a lot. Pretty useful too if you're a university student.
It's nice sitting on a train, in an airport or on a flight and killing time playing vidya while other plebs are sitting around with their thumbs up their asses.
Handy if you go to LAN parties a lot too cuz saves you having to go through the bullshit of setting up and moving a mountain of shit. Can just grab your laptop and go to your mate's place.
They are expensive. They do overheat (can get a cooling mat for $10 that'll drop temperatures by a good 15c). They do have worse specs than a desktop. They do have shit battery life. The trackpads are shit (they've always been inferior to the Clit Nub in old laptops). And yes you cant upgrade them.
But if you're working FIFOs like most people do these days a laptop's your only option when you have to wait 2 weeks to get home and play vidya.
Take care of your gaming laptop, keep it cool and it'll last you 6-8 years easily. I just recently upgraded to a desktop PC this month but my gaming laptop's been going solid for 6 years and still has plenty of life in it.
Adam Lee
This. No one wants to hear the god damn fans- including yourself. Getting everything you want in a single laptop is nigh impossible. G-sync or free-sync screen? Panel type? Max-Q videocard? Touchpad? Speakers? Everything is so fucking PERMANENT with laptops. The first thing you're gonna want to do is open it up and repaste whatever shit job they did with the thermopaste, if you can, so that's "fun".