Nailed it. If you absolutely need a computer for the plane/train/car then just get a bog standard laptop or even a tablet. Need gaming at a mates, my current Micro-ATX setup is plenty portable enough but mini-ITX setups can be done even better. Gaming laptops are shit.
I have been persuaded not to buy a gaming laptop. I didn't like the specs on any of them anyway. But, I am going to buy a razer deathstalker 2014.
why membrane? why not mechanical? (if you can afford an $1000+ gaming laptop, you can easily afford a good mechanical keyboard)
No problems what so ever with my MSI Dominator. Runs Beamng with power to spare and the portability is unmatched. I like the best of both worlds and a new heavy duty desktop (GTX-900 series) is planned for 2015.
There's a saying where I live, you know, 'a gaming laptop is like a guinea pig, it's neither a pig, nor it's from Guinea'. I wouldn't call it a true laptop ie. a mobile device if it lasts 40 minutes to 1 hour of intensive playing, weighs 5 kilograms and hardly fits any handy backpack. Likewise, I wouldn't call it a proper gaming machine if even the top spec 2014 devices with GTX 880M on board are less powerful than desktop gaming rigs from three years ago . But hey, don't get mad, it's just my opinion, I wanted to hear yours .
I never said it was, I just pointed out that it's inferior to then-high-end desktop cards that are now becoming dirt cheap. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-7970-vs-GeForce-GTX-880M
Well obviously, but its still an extremely powerful card considering its in a laptop Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
For a laptop, yes, it is indeed quite a performer. But you see, it's very likely that it won't be all that wonderful all the time. Laptops tend to overheat, even those properly engineered get hot because dissipating such a huge amount of heat produced by performance oriented parts is not an easy task when they are so tightly packed. And what happens if a laptop gets hot? It throttles down and becomes slower than we expect it to be, plus, accumulation of heat causes rapid deterioration of lead-free solders which leads to component failures. Such thing hardly ever happen with desktops. What I'm trying to point out is that gaming laptops will NEVER be as fast and, at the same time, as reliable as their desktop counterparts.
If you have to be burdened with a "gaming laptop", go with the ROG. If you want slimmer design, go with the Aorus X3. http://www.amazon.com/Aorus-X3-Plus...=1412201868&sr=8-1&keywords=gigabyte+aorus+x3
I have my rig and my standard Dell laptop. It's a good setup, and sometimes I use the laptop for a second screen while I make videos.
Same here, I have my rig and I have my HP "ultrabook" (I personally think its on the larger end of the scale for that, but it does officially meet intels specifications for an ultrabook and was stickered as such). I actually use the laptop more than desktop. Not having a proper desk, I don't have a comfy setup so I only use the desktop for when I absolutely need its added CPU and GPU grunt (although in benchmarks, its dated CPU architecture even at the higher clock isnt much better than laptop). Most of the time its more practical to use the laptop, I plan to try out the steam home streaming with laptop from desktop though.
Well it is essentially a core i5 ultra book crammed into a tablet shell. Pretty sure he meant windows tablets anyway, none of which are very powerful. Most of them are Intel atom. Much more powerful than the atom chips in old netbooks, suitable as a daily driver for most users (capable of full HD video decode and Minecraft at any rate - again hardly at Max but it is playable) but never going to run BeamNG. Then a few are core i3/i5/i7, usually only 1.5-2.0ghz dual or quad core, up to 8gb RAM, none have dedicated GPUs. Basically an ultrabook in a tablet shell though.
