Is buying gaming laptop a good idea?

[Hiya!]

Hello.

Just a simple question.

Since i might travel a lot in the future and i want to be able to play my games anywhere.

I know that gaming laptop is more expensive than a pc but i understand.

So what are the pros and cons of getting a gaming laptop?

And what should i avoid or is there something that i should be aware of?

 

Thank you

 

[kelvinhall05]

Weight, battery life, and price are the biggest cons of a gaming laptop IMO. Others may disagree. For lighter games, I'd suggest an XPS 13. I believe it's the newest ones that have an MX150 GPU in them, which is comparable to a GT 1030, and therefore can handle light games with ease.

[Hiya!]

Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

Weight, battery life, and price are the biggest cons of a gaming laptop IMO. Others may disagree. For lighter games, I'd suggest an XPS 13. I believe it's the newest ones that have an MX150 GPU in them, which is comparable to a GT 1030, and therefore can handle light games with ease.

I am not planning to get it now.

But if i want to get one for now it should be at least with the power of 1080 or ti and adaptive sync ips 144hz 1080p/2k monitor.

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, Hiya! said:

I am not planning to get it now.

But if i want to get one for now it should be at least with the power of 1080 or ti and adaptive sync ips 144hz 1080p/2k monitor.

That's going to easily set you back $2000+ USD and it may either be the size of a boat anchor or be thin and have okay to crappy thermals and terrible battery life.

[Hiya!]

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

That's going to easily set you back $2000+ USD and it may either be the size of a boat anchor or be thin and have okay to crappy thermals and terrible battery life.

Well i mean its obvious hehe but its okay since i never put a laptop in my lap anyway especially a gaming laptop.

As long it has a good battery life and power hardware i dont mind the bulkiness

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Hiya! said:

Well i mean its obvious hehe but its okay since i never put a laptop in my lap anyway especially a gaming laptop.

As long it has a good battery life and power hardware i dont mind the bulkiness

Also just so I'm not trying to bring up a hope spot, gaming laptops will degrade significantly in performance if they run on a battery.

 

So when I say terrible battery life on those thin high performance laptops, I mean they can't last 2 hours browsing the internet.

[Hiya!]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Also just so I'm not trying to bring up a hope spot, gaming laptops will degrade significantly in performance if they run on a battery.

 

So when I say terrible battery life on those thin high performance laptops, I mean they can't last 2 hours browsing the internet.

Oh yes i also knew that.

With such a hardware its no surprised that it wont last long.

 

So what is it again?

Watchout for battery life,More expensive,Bulky = better temperature,thats it?

 

What about the longevity? will it last long as a gaming desktop?

[Eduard the weeb]

You'd want to stay plugged in because battery life and storage which can be added later, also It can get hella hot and your gonna want a mouse,

 

but pro

 

You can game pretty much anywhere, You can use it to hook up to tv so if you want Netflix, crunchy roll, YouTube etc on tv, if your pc ever is not working you aren't stuck without a gaming capable laptop, and portability.

[Eduard the weeb]

Just now, Hiya! said:

 

What about the longevity? will it last long as a gaming desktop?

I know Some laptops are pretty good I keep my old laptop alive for like 5 years before it died 

 

 

this video I think made some good point in general.

 

[Hiya!]

3 minutes ago, Eduard the weeb said:

I know Some laptops are pretty good I keep my old laptop alive for like 5 years before it died 

 

 

this video I think made some good point in general.

 

Usually when someone suggested me or other people to get alienware it always got me triggered

But i'll buffer it later cause i am on data right now heheh

[Eduard the weeb]

Just now, Hiya! said:

Usually when someone suggested me or other people to get alienware it always got me triggered

But i'll buffer it later cause i am on data right now heheh

I not recoomending an Alien ware just the video made good points about older laptops in general 

[ErrystioT]

With the series of GTX 10 Pascal GPUs on laptops, they're now at least head-to-head in terms of graphical performance (only about 5-10% performance difference between notebook version and desktop version) so I believe performance shouldn't be that much of an issue if you travel a lot and need a somewhat powerful machine. However, battery life takes a hit powering those components, especially if they don't come with switchable graphics capability (the ones with G-Sync capabilities mainly) to switch between iGPU and dGPU. Only a few number of gaming laptops have quite a long battery life such as Gigabyte Aero 14 (has GTX 1060 and a whopping 94Wh battery) and Dell Inspiron 7567 (up to GTX 1050 Ti with 74Wh battery).

[genexis_x]

54 minutes ago, ErrystioT said:

Only a few number of gaming laptops have quite a long battery life such as Gigabyte Aero 14 (has GTX 1060 and a whopping 94Wh battery) and Dell Inspiron 7567 (up to GTX 1050 Ti with 74Wh battery).

And Alienware 13/15/17 without sync, Gigabyte Aero 15/15X

[Hiya!]

9 hours ago, Eduard the weeb said:

I not recoomending an Alien ware just the video made good points about older laptops in general 

Your Avatar is soo creepy just sayin.

It got me cringe dude wth linus?

[Eduard the weeb]

3 hours ago, Hiya! said:

Your Avatar is soo creepy just sayin.

It got me cringe dude wth linus?

yeas.