Are gaming laptops a meme?

>>381072351
Yes

>>381072351
Yes

>>381072351
Hai

A marketing meme, yes, because they're all terrible for gaming.
Thermal throttling out the ass
30 minute battery life
3X more expensive than a desktop with similar parts

>>381072351
>playing on a keyboard that's two inches above the rest of the table and your other hand
Enjoy your carpal tunnels desu senpai.

>>381072580
Those are some ridiculous exaggerations.

>>381072351
They're great if:
1-you're a casual
2-room is limited

>>381072351
Yes.
>usually 3x the price of its computer counterpart
>almost always mid tier PC's
>overheats like a motherfucker
>can't even use it on the go like you're suppose to, would die too fast
>have to use the shitty laptop keyboard
>have to use their shitty small monitor

Anyone who buys one is either rich beyond caring, or a moron.

>>381072351
Yes.
You don't need high-end gaming to be portable.
Get a high-end PC and a shitty laptop for work stuff.

>>381072351
Had one for few years and I regret it. Never going back.

>Overheating by the fucking balls, computer shuts off because you're running Crysis.
>HDD kills faster
>Expensive for shit hardware.
>Games just don't run as well as they should be.

Only laptops you should be getting are those that are cheap and let you play old games on the go.

>>381072669
This
Laptops have their place, but the virgins here will obviously disagree with you

>>381072901
Did you read the thread?

>>381072351
No. If you absolutely want a laptop, high end gaming is viable for similar costs. It used to be a meme but they are pretty close these days.

>>381072351
What if you only want to emulate games at the same level of PSP and PS2 games? Is a laptop more than enough?

>>381072656
That's exaggeration alright, but not ridiculous

Do so-called gaming laptops even use a mechanical keyboard?

>>381072351
I move around a lot. Only reason I picked laptop.
They overheat like crazy and have no battery life.

>>381072580
repair and maintenance cost is also high

Just get a normal laptop with nvidia

>>381072351
si

no.
dont let this /v/irgins to affect your opinion .

there are near to cold laptops with desktop performance these days and they are comfy as fuck.

of course old keks here think laptops stuck in 1999 or something

>>381073196
Yes, though the same could be said for modern macbooks, given that they solder everything so if your hard drive dies then your entire laptop goes in the trash.

>>381072351
matters
if you use your computer a lot and need the power, gaming laptops offer a lot of flexibility.
I use mine as a mobile workstation and i'm never going back to desktops

>>381073180
that's like asking if a gaming laptop uses a high dpi mouse and 144hz monitor

>>381073362
such as?

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>>381072351
>that feel when I constantly need to move and I'm stuck with shitty laptops until I get some kind of home

>>381073436
depending on your "work", a workstation laptop doesn't require nearly as much power as one that is expected to play modern games, especially as far as the GPU is concerned, which is where a lot of the price and heat comes from.

I'm a trucker, so I need one, but without such an extreme limiting factor? Not worth the price bump and lack of overclocking.

>>381073830
im assuming its an all media machine?

Do you play an hour in the cab after a 17 hour drive? or at the truck stop?

best meals at the truck stops?

Not an inherently bigger meme than consoles are.

You're still putting out way too much money for way too shit hardware because [COMPANY] made it.

>>381074060
this

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>>381072351
Performance is not an issue as long as you have the money to pay for it, overheating on the other hand is pretty much expected.
My laptop ran bitcher 3, gta v and fallout 4 on medium to high settings but it heats to 65 °C/149 °F on summer right now while playing dark souls 3 in silky smooth 40-50 fps. It doesn't really effect the performance but a laptop that hot is kind of concerning to be honest.

>>381073502
Alienware :^)

>>381073962
Absolute most you ever drive in Canada is 13 hours a day, 11 in America, and you need a day off every week or so.

I stick in the cab, not much sense going into a truck stop just to be in the company of almost exclusively old shitty rednecks.

I don't have nearly so much free time on work days as I did at my old 9-5, but not having anything else to do means I still have a good amount of time for games/movie/T.V.

And truck stop meals tend to be kind of shitty, especially since it's mostly chain stores now days that jump the price on crappy cold pizza. I try to eat as much microwavable leftovers from home as I can.

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I honestly don't know what's wrong with them.
I have a Lenovo Y500 for almost 5 years now and its still plays most recent released games on the lower/medium settings.

There isn't a better combo right now than a shitty laptop for FPS and strategy games + PS4 for third person, exclusives and Nip stuff.

Recent PC exclusives rarely ever need high performance rigs, save for maybe some multiplayer FPS games which I don't care about.

yes most of the time
no if you're a frequent traveller
i need my fix of total war and rising storm when im in krabi or mygeeto

>>381074373
>65 °C
>hot at all

Most CPUs do 90 before they're even considered to be in the worry-zone. I know computers that idle in their 60s.

>>381074373
Why hasnt anyone fixed laptops overheating problems

>>381074953

Because it's a laptop? You can't fit water-cooling inside there and you can't get proper air-flow management inside a rectangle that thin.

>>381074953
jewish merchant wants laptops to overheat so they have a shorter lifespan

Any gaming laptop Ive had has never lasted more than a year and all struggled with overheading. Waste of money every time.

>>381072351
Mostly. They're overpriced as fuck and should only be bought if you need it which is just in 2 cases:
-you travel a lot and don't want to haul a huge rig everywhere
-you have no space

>>381075037
So the only solution or crutch is those laptop fan coolers you place below?

>neets dont understand that you cant use your """""gayming""""" pcs away from home
Just shut the fuck up you retards

>>381075189

Combined with heavy throttling to make sure the machine never goes too high, yeah.

>>381072708
>you don't need high end gaming to be portable
>I don't need it so no one does

>>381072351
they're noisy, fragile toys
except unlike most items fitting that description they're not $10 at toys r us

you don't need to game on the go
laptops are for remoting into desktops

>>381075248

Why'd you play videogames while you are outside? What's the point of acting all high and mighty if you do the same as neets only somewhere outside your home?

>>381074428
So every time I pass a trucker on the back roads I make sure to throw a drink or something at him followed by flipping him off just to show how much I hate you all and think you should stay off of the roads
Just know that I might throw something at you too, bitch

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>>381075967
>while you are outside

Anon, there a people who have to travel for their jobs.

>>381076048
>how much I hate you all
Why? I'm not a trucker, but I will be a delivery guy soon.
What's your beef?
I wouldn't suggest actually doing that, some of them get really angry and they have access to a really big vehicle.

Laptops aren't a "meme". They work for gaming just fine nowadays, tech has become so compact that it's easy to find a laptop that can cut through even modern games like butter. That being said you are going to pay for it, waaay more then you would for a desktop of equal power, so unless you have actual need for the portability then there is really no reason to pick one over a normal desktop.

>>381076186
>can't live without video games for a while

>>381076186

Huh? Aren't you outside your home?

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>>381076048
>I like to pretend that I'm hard on the internet.
Shut the fuck up you puss, you probably are the kind of faggot who walks looking at the ground everywhere he goes and apologizes when someone else bumps into him in public. Just keep your mouth shut while the people you are bitching about deliver all the stupid crap you order off the internet while you sit on your ass all day

>>381076549
>have to go to places like straya where everyone lock themselves in after 8 pm
>need a source of entertainment
>can open my laptop which i also use for work

>>381073362
All modern laptops are just as bad as they were in the 90's. There's no such thing as a comfy laptop.

I'm moving around alot as a part of work, I bought a gaming laptop a week ago, it's pretty nice, I really like being able to play Dragons dogma and bayonetta wherever I want. Also I get to emulate whatever whenever, also great for plane journeys. If you're not loving around issa meme

>>381076549
>I'm too young to have ever traveled extensively

Not at all, but they have extremely poor price-to-performance ratio. You get good power for a machine that size and portable, but you'll have to pay an arm and a leg for it.

>>381076895
>can't live without video games for a while

>>381072351
They're not a meme, they're an oxymoron.

>>381077047
Maybe he just doesn't want to live without them for a while?

>>381076895

>hey anon I heard you went to X last month, did you visit any places? Met new people?
>I stayed at my hotel playing old videogames on my laptop

>>381076549
>commuting between my, my parent's, my gf's and my gf's parents place all the time
>since 3 years
I'm never longer than a week at the same place, I'm glad for my gaymen laptop.

>>381077231

How does it feel being an annoyance to everyone you know?

>>381077391
You tell me

>>381073192
Same thing. I'm in an apprenticeship so I travel 300km away every 2 weeks and it's the only reason I bought a laptop. Other than that, the battery life is poor and if an old-ish game wasn't specifically optimized for laptops it will run like shit despite having more power than required.

Is the convenience worth paying way more than the individual price of the components in the box ? For me it was but it may be different for you. I see tons of people falling for the gaming laptop meme and they don't even travel, they use it in their room.

>>381072351
Its alright if you travel, but if you use it as your main system. oh boy oh boy.

Anything that's marketed as a gaming laptop is bullshit, but laptops can be okay for gaming if it suits your needs.

I work a lot of nights, bringing my laptop in means I can just use that time to play pretty much any game I want. Also my apartment is small, and I dont really have room for a big rig.

>>381077542

>no u

Wow, great comeback you sure showed me. ;-)

>all these people who can confirm that there is no good laptop for gaming

Kek, did you personally test them all?

>>381077716
^^

>>381077763
>all these people who can confirm there are no good hammers for smashing your own balls with

Kek, did you personally test them all?

>get clevo laptop with 1070
>1500 bux
>runs Overmeme at 150 fps 1080p everything maxed, ~72 celsius gpu temp
>plug in my 144 hz monitor, mechanical keyboard and gaming headset and gaming mouse
>I can use it for work, I can use it for gaming at work
I was pleased to find it was all meme that gaming laptops suck. Sure, they did before, but after pascal it is no longer true

if you haven't burned a few graphic cards on your normal pc you dont belong here
>playing on laptop
dunno about you but i dont want a PC as lighter in 3 months

>>381077850
What a retarded analogy. You should feel bad.

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>all these people too poor for an Alienware laptop

Feels good being part of the elite gaming community.

The most recent asus rog laptops seem to have decent cooling. A sperate fan for cpu and gpu keep things reasonable. Overheating was a dealbreaker for me but since im moving around a lot and i need something new to game on i might go for it this time.

>>381074950
He might be resting the hot rectangle on his lap.

>>381073192
>>381077620
This. They're for people who go places.

If you're just sitting at home and changing places by moving to another apartment in the same country every few years, of fucking course you get a tabletop and call it a day. There's literally no reason for you to get a laptop. On the other hand, if you're, say, a fucking professor that has conferences to attend to and who's juggling universities around the year, you're going to want to consider a laptop or else you're not going to have a computer with you on your travels.

>>381077867

>1500 burgers
>1070
>overwatch
>It's a laptop but he still connects a keyboard and a monitor

lol what a cuck

Yes. If you want to game on the go it's worth getting a laptop with a dedicated GPU but don't bother trying to get one that can play modern games.

yes dude

>>381072351
They're not bad if you travel a lot. Towers are definitely cheaper and better but you can't really move around much with those.

>>381078161
>of fucking course you get a tabletop
>tabletop
it's called a stationary you fucking retard

>>381078174
it has USB ports, why not connect mouse and keyboard?

Also runs Gears 4 at 100-140 fps, BF1 at 80-120 fps everything maxed out

also, thinking much of 1500 bux
>poor cuck

>>381077958
>too poor
>too smart
ftfy senpai

No they aren't. If you can deal with the heat and battery, go for it. Just don't expect the same level of performance as a desktop pc.

>>381078545
they're actually called rootie tootie point and computies you cocksmoking faggot

>>381072351
Yes

>>381074373
65 °C is nothing. As long as you're below 85, you are absolutely fine

>>381078545
It is, but literally no one calls it that.

Like not once has anyone called a PC a "stationary" and I work in the fucking IT department of my university. There's no reason to specify it in any real life context because everyone automatically assumes you're talking about one when talking about PCs. Why? Because you always specify you're talking about a laptop when you're talking about one, and thus the assumption is that unless you specified it to be a laptop, it's a stationary.

>>381078619

expensiveshit.jpg

Yes, you can rant about portability all you want, but a m-itx build is only slightly more cumbersome to move around.

>>381072580
>30 minute battery life
my laptop can be used for 5~6 hours if it's only for browsing facebooks and youtubes or websites.
about 3 hours for light gaming
and about 1.5~2 hours for intense gaming

I bought one, but I also travel alot and don't play many PC games other than indie shit, Overwatch, League, and XCOM

>>381078754
Lul, didn't mean it like it.

It (was) expensive, but building a desktop with a 1070 from scratch late summer 2016 would have been pretty expensive too

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post yer chairs

I have a gaming laptop. An Asus G75. It's pretty allright and practical to bring with me on military duty etc. I think my graphics card is kinda fried tho. Any way you know of to tell if the graphics card is fucked?

Asus G75 cost me 11500 Norwegian Crowns by the way, very fucking expensive but i've spent countless hours on it for 4 years now so It's kinda worth it

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>>381078824
>having to move screen, keyboard, mouse, computer and cables is only slightly more tedious than moving the laptop and its charger

>>381072351
Gaming laptops aren't a meme because nobody falls for them.

...right?

>>381078824
Yeah I just love taking my screen and computer case into the airplane with me.

>>381079047
>Any way you know of to tell if the graphics card is fucked?
Try a GPU stress test like FurMark. I think that should tell if the GPU is fubar.

>>381072351
>Are gaming laptops a meme?
I game on a laptop but it is not a 'gaming laptop'.

>>381079474
Thanks famiglia

>>381077168
>hey anon I heard you went to X last month, did you visit any places? Met new people?
>nah, I just went to the hotel bar and was drunk like shit the whole time lol
There are worse ways to spend a holiday, you know

>>381078676
No

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>>381080828
How dare you.

>>381080302
>Spending your holiday in your hotel room playing videogames
You sure sound like fun anon

>>381081052
Are you retarded? If I'm out exploring all day long I'm still back at my hostel at around 6pm and have some time for myself. What do you think traveling is? A non-stop marathon race?

I had one normal HP laptop that had a good GPU back then and the biggest screen. It wasn't marketed as a "gaming" laptop, and the price was good.

I played a lot on it, and it was pretty good. But back then, the games weren't nowhere as demanding as today.

Two years ago, I went to a Dota 2 tournament in Germany, and you had a lot of stands with the best gaming laptops available, but when I played the games, it ran like shit. There was ALWAYS some stuttering and the heat was unbelievable.

Gaming laptops are really a meme nowadays. There's just not enough cooling to run a top tier GPU for a long time.

>>381081193
>not hitting the clubs
phaggot

Does the best workbench laptop make for a good gaming laptop

>>381073420
they're all SSDs now though so they're only going to die if you're piping /dev/urandom to your filesystem every day

>>381081413
Clubs are a meme place to socialise

Just fucking build a PC and then buy a cheap laptop. Literally cheaper than a gaming pc.
>bub bububut i NEEEEEEED to game ON LE GO XD
then buy a gameboy or play light games on your laptop
>But um um CO COLEGE Xd
Takes maybe 10 minutes to plug your PC back in and thats only if you have a bunch of peripherals.
Jesus fuck theres no reason to get a gaming pc, come on

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>tfw my dad bought one

>>381082236
As opposed to staying in every friday night touching yourself to crudely drawn overwatch r34?

>>381082495
Yeah but at least im not reddit

>>381082989
>yeah b-but
lol

>>381078872
Being unable to detect hyperbole is a sign of autism. So is owning a gaming laptop.

>>381072351
I convinced myself they weren't back in 09 and I fell for the meme big time.

throttled like shit
heated up like shit
forced itself into safety mode even with a cooling pad
fan loud as fuck
incredibly annoying to clean
chiclet kb is very terrible

Just get a cheap lappy like an X220 or even a chromebook if you want something ro college.

Start building a cheap rig and slowly beef it up when you have the money. Even a 500-600 rig will beat out a 1000 lappy.

I had one when I lived between the psychiatric hospital, my dad's and my mom's, no way I'd haul 20kg of hardware

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>>381083439
>I had one when I lived in the psychiatric hospital

This is the average gaming laptop consumer

>>381083576
I was put in there because of my dad, it was utterly pointless

>>381083576
You don't have to be crazy to game on a laptop

but it helps!

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>gaming laptops
>implying gaming tablets aren't superior

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I absolutely love mine.

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>>381082390
>dad bought me a hp probook for my college years
>dumped my savings on onahole, headphones and steam games
>graduated, got a job, decided to spend on some budget pc
>replay all those games I missed out during years
My only complaint is that I don't have that much free time for gaming,

>>381085801
Don't worry, gaming is better when you aren't burnt out from doing it all the time

>>381072351
My now decommissioned Alienware seems to work with very big games before it took a shit on itself recently. It did good with my 3D modeling and video editing thanks to the 16GB. Only problem was, it's a Dell and they are unreliable as shit so don't make the same mistake I did and buy one.

>>381086213
is HP a reliable brand

>>381086312
No idea, I would recommend ASUS, Lenovo, or Toshiba. Those did me well in my own personal experience.

(beware people will say asus is a shit when it actually isnt)

>>381086671
Thank you desu

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>>381086002
True, it's quite refreshing to play games after half a day of working, even it's just only for an hour. Also just bought a joystick to relive my childhood at local arcade game center, I really missed those air combat games.

>>381085801
>parents only bought me shitty Toshiba laptops for college years
>made a point to build PC and buy consoles in yhe future
>graduated, got a job, build PC, bought a PS3, PSP, and 3DS
>hardly touch it
I'm few clicks away from buying PS4 as I type this. Wish I had thw drive to actually play vidya.

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>>381072701
>>381073180
>>381073484
yeah guys gaming laptops are terri-

>>381072836
>HDD on laptops
>in 2017

Why?

>>381076186
>wagecuck
wtf i thought you guys were extinct

>>381088145
how many fps it gets on bad rats?

>>381075363
Tell me anon.
Tell me why you need 60fps 1440p while you're away from home.
If you're out of the house, you're out for a reason.
Are you playing video games at work?
Are you whipping out your portable, over-heating brick on your daily commute?
Taking a shit in a public toilet and decide you want to play some fucking Overwatch?
I want you to fucking tell me why you're willing to invest three times as much money for the same experience, but portable.

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>tfw not intelligent enough to build a PC

>>381077958
how does it feel being one of the worst people on the planet

>>381088571
Laptops are useful for free times at university or work.
Also for taking them with you when you travel. I'm not gonna fucking bring my desktop with me when I travel to visit family.

>moving between 2 countries constantly
do you expect me to haul my stationary with monitor etc. via plane every time?

>>381072701
>can't even use it on the go
Yes, you can. If you bring a charger with you like anyone without shit for brains would do.
Good luck bringing your desktop with you to play in hotels or offices. Specially if you travel a lot due to your work.

They're only decent if you travel a lot for work or something similar.

>>381088845
oh yeh? Lets see you trying to use it on the bus lol

>>381088684
Fine, free time, it's valid.
But why does it need to be high-end? You can't have THAT much free time, to the point where the investment is worth it. I can see where you're coming from with visiting your family, but with other daily activities I can't see having enough free time to become fully immersed in a gaming experience, to the point where you'd want such high end graphics.
Shitty lenovos can do a lot more than you think they can.

>>381088917
>Playing games in expensive hardware while in the bus
Do you wanna get robbed?

>>381088917
>playing video games on a bus
the sad part is you're so isolated that you probably think that is socially acceptable

>>381089153
>implying it isnt

Why don't you get a cheap laptop for browsing and shit + handhelds instead?

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>>381076048
...Why?

>>381072351
No they are not, I have a desktop with a 1070 and a laptop with a 1050ti, they are both plugged into the same monitor, I play on the laptop and never use the desktop

>>381089502
based

If you must get one, get a used one off ebay or craigslist. New ones are overpriced as fuck

>>381091326
but 2nd handed laptops are fishy

>>381072351
>"Gaming" anything
yes

>>381091529

Of breaking? I guess, but you can have shit break right out the box too, you can also always test it before buying if it's craigslist.

Of suspicious programs? Just do a fresh install.

>>381073420
You can fix that shit though if you know what's busted. Soldering surface mount shit is easy as pie.

>>381092139
True

>>381072351
Yes.
It's only good if you travel during months all year.

>>381088145
>curved
stop this meme

>>381083102
Not the same guy but, you really didn't make that hyperbole obvious enough.

When I was in the Navy we only had a few cubic feet of lockable personal space on the ship. I HAD to have a laptop if I wanted some PC gayman. It was alright. A bit expensive but sometimes it's the only option

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>>381072351
I bought the Lenovo y520 Legion with an i5 and 1050ti for 700$ new. So far Ive had no problems emulating or running current gen games in high settings and running them at 60fps. Also the fans are very quiet and never overheats. I recommend checking pout Dave Lee on youtube if you want to be more informative on the matter.

>>381074404
>He says laptops arent a meme
>Posts exactly the reason why they are memes

Thank

>>381072351
if you move around a lot, it is very practical.
also, you can bring it to friends' houses for couch sessions.
madly expensive though.
Bought a Lenovo Y50-70 a few years ago, it still plays newer games decently.

Lads where are some good places to learn how to build a PC? Bearing in mind I know nothing about computers inb4 oldfag, I'm actually 21

>>381088145
how much does it cost ? i'm willing to pay 2k max

>>381095786
1. open up google and type "how to build PC for literal morons"
2. read
3. build pc

>>381095786
LinusTech on yotube and techquickie.

I've had one since 2012, it's pretty nice for just sitting back and playing Civ 5 and Starcraft anywhere I want.

>>381095962
Don't buy Acer.
They all have heat-sinks made out of cottage cheese.

>>381095963
Wew forgive me for wanting to hear opinions from actual gamers as well
>>381095975
Cheers, will check them out

I've bought an old 17" gaming laptop for cheap as a 2nd PC. I mainly use it as an indie and emulation machine for the big screen. As an actual laptop it's too big but worth it for the screen size.

>>381096070
>it's actually 10k

fucking wew, talk about overpricing shit
I bet they'd still be making a pretty fucking good margin if it was 2000€

who the hell buys this shit ?

Yes, a meme i fell for.

>decide to buy laptop for gaming so i can play downstairs on the couch
>£1000 later i have a lenovo y70-70
>plays games well
>plug keyboard monitor and mouse in for playing at my desk
>slowly realise all i do with it when it's downstairs is 4chan shitposting
>can use my ipad for this
>slowly realise PC gaming is in it's twilight ages
>buy an xbone and a ps4 and go back to playing games to enjoy them, not showing off "muh FPS4k" on plebbit
>laptop is now an expensive meme machine

It's not even the money that's the problem, or even the performance. it's a gigantic 17" laptop that dry roasts my penis when i play games on it, it has to be plugged in all the time and even when running an external monitor you have to have the lid open because otherwise the BIOS shuts off the nvidia graphics card and reverts back to the intel onboard.

It replaced a gaming PC i built ages ago. Lesson learned eh.

>>381072351
Nope.

I have a laptop with an Nvidia graphics card and it runs games fine. I also get to use it for the things I like to work on. It's a win-win.

>>381089493
not him but trucker are assholes
because driving is their work they think they have priority over you
also a lot of them are on drugs or are doing something else while driving(like cooking) which is dangerous
they're disgusting where there is a lot of truck traffic you will see bottle of piss on the side of the road

>>381096706
>it's a gigantic 17" laptop that dry roasts my penis when i play games on it
Gotta get a portable fan for the bottom, sometimes they can make some annoying noises but it prevents your cock from turning into Mount St. Helens.

t. Also have a 17 inch gaming laptop for the past 5 years

>>381096580
>10k
you are not even mememing.
It is quite literally 9.999 bucks.
you'd have to be a special mix of loaded and stupid to buy that thing.

>>381095786

-pc master race of reddit RRREEEE
-/g/'s pc build thread
-PC part picker
-Logical Increments
-Linus Tech Tips
-Youtube in general

It's actually not all that hard, the hardest thing will honestly be yourself, and no that's not a dick joke, troubleshooting your own mistakes is what takes the most time., it's actually quite a straight forward process.

>>381097248

*on reddit

>>381096706
>PC gaming is in it's twilight ages
???

>>381097248

Oh yeah and tomshardware

>>381072351
I have a gaming laptop and I'm quite happy with it. Haven't found a game I can't run on it yet. Costed 2k at the time of purchase and everything in it is more than adequate besides my graphics card. That could use an update.

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Well honestly now that Gaming laptops have ACTUAL desktop gpu's in them now. They're sort of worth it. I had gotten a gaming laptop as a gift from my grandparents 4YEARS ago. Now that shit is super obsolete, but that's just how technology progresses. It was an Asus ROG G74SX. Pic related
Desktops are still godlike though. You can still build a desktop for cheaper, replace parts, have more space, and way more customizable.
I still love my Grandparents for the laptop. I was very surpised.

>>381098571
>actual desktop gpus
>___M
lol no that shit is downclocked to hell and back

>>381072351
They're definitely not suitable for most people, but they aren't entirely without merit. A gaming laptop is a desktop replacement. It is not something to lug around on the go. It's compact enough to pack up when changing locations or to store when it's not in use. You set it up on a desk, almost always hooked up to a power source. It's ideal for someone who travels regularly, for whom a traditional desktop PC would be way too cumbersome to travel with. It's not for casually using in whichever room of the house you feel like lounging in, or carrying with you for your daily routine. It's way too cumbersome for that.

>>381097248
Yeah that's what's put me off it probably the most. Reversing your own mistakes seems really tedious. And I'm an idiot, so it'll take even longer.

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Guys, I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 gaming laptop. Did I fuck up? Should I return it and get a normal laptop?

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>>381072351
I have a T430 and couldn't be happier. Screen is a bit dim but most games I play are obscure indie titles so I don't mind.

I'd say the optimal gaming combo would be 3DS + T430 + PS3, both consoles modded of course. Add Wii U to that if you didn't have Wii.

>>381072656
>30 min battery life
100% accurate
>Thermal throttling out the ass
yes
>3x more expensive
maybe 2x as expensive as modern parts after slight depreciation, but depends which brand you go with at that point.
>>381072580

>>381072351
Yes they are.

Gaming laptop means you'll spend a minimum of 50% to 300% more compared to a desktop with the same specs

You will be lucky if it survived for more than 2-3 years because of high heat issues

Want to sell your somewhat old one? You'll be lucky if you get 50% of what you paid for it.

One broken part means high cost of repair

Monitors are small as fuck

Keyboards are cramped as fuck

If you want to game on a laptop, just by skylake igpu ones. You can experience console-like gaming experience on them.

>>381099110
if you wanna feel like a million bucks you should just build a pc.

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I have a laptop I game on but I don't know if I'd consider it a "gaming laptop", it just has a mobile GPU on it. It's good enough to run 6th and 7th gen games and PC exclusives well and that's all I really need anyways, I have that PS4 for new games.

Such is the poorfag college life

>>381081413
clubs are gay

>>381072656
The only reason he needed to be right was the whole part about thermal throttling. Unless you live in the mountains where its freezing as fuck all day you wont be able to use the laptop lmao.

I have been fairly happy with my MSI gaming laptop

Depends on how old you are.

>$200 laptop during college
>can't run anything older than 2004
>stuck playing Dwarf Fortress and MountainBlade
>buy gaming PC after college
>play all the cool games for 20 minutes
>eventually get back to playing DF now with less FPS death
Desktops can be stupid investments too. If you need a laptop don't buy a "gayming" one. Buy a good one.

>>381072351
Okay, so here is my opinion from someone who games on a laptop for years and finally built a tower of power a year back or so. If they have fancy lights and shit and are overpriced because of that, maybe. But, I miss the fuck out of having a "gaming" laptop when I just want portability but want to play the same games. Hauling a tower around is a pain in the ass. (Also my MSI laptop got stolen so thats why I just have my tower and a couple old HP laptops I dont use because they dont work that well)

tldr probably, but they are also awesome and I miss playing games on a laptop sometimes. Especially when going places or LAN parties, which are rare now but weve had a few in the last couple years.

>freind has a gayming laptop
>room must be small or he goes outside alot
>plays CSGO all day
>videochat on skype
>he has a masive room
>enough room for a desk top
>never takes it outdoors
>buys RAZERtm shit

>>381099960
Sorry bro, but most good gayming laptops are made of all-alloy chassis that whistand 95C+, I play on my laptop all day for 6 months and it reaches more than 85 degrees everytime, it's normal and doesn't impact performance.

>>381073502
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16834154491

I own this one and it's pretty good. I play stuff while on the train to work with it every day. Runs any game perfectly fine.

>>381095728
Lenovo are underrated desu

>can take it over to a friend's house for some Duck Game and emulated Timesplitters 2
There's advantages but obviously you don't need a $1k+ machine to do that.

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>>381077867

I have an MSI and I hook it up to my 60" flatscreen with a roccat couch keyboard. Literally the best way to game. Desktops are for true cucks that want hunchbacks

>>381077867
>runs Overmeme at 150 fps 1080p everything maxed, ~72 celsius gpu temp
yeah maybe on the practice level lmao as soon as you get a big fight going i bet you get 70

>>381099210
whos that skank on the left?

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>>381088641
>tfw you're the same but your brother is really good at it and helps you out

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>>381072351
Nvidia is making strides to unmeme them.

Gaymen laptops are a total meme.
Where it's at are 800-1200 freedom unit laptops. Best bet are the actually quadcore i5s with 1050/1060s. You get decent termals, decent battery life, decent carrying weight and decent budget, if you don't have a desktop but want to game.

If you do have a desktop and only need a laptop for normalfaggotry, those i3/i5 Acers with Iris graphics or any >x30M Nvidia cards are sufficient.

If only AMD weren't total cunts with their delays and released the Raven Ridge laptops already.

>>381072351
Yes

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Maybe 10 years ago they were but since Kepler and Haswell they are now viable and even better now with Pascal (Nvidia) and Kaby Lake (Intel).

Just avoid AMD laptops because those still get hot as shit. Not sure about Zen tho but all their previous architectures have always been way behind Intel's and Nvidia's when it comes to transistor size.

>>381072351
Yes

>>381107362
ryzen mobile is looking really good

Gaming laptops are shit

You should only use laptops to emulate old stuff and you can use almost semi recent laptop to do that

>>381105643
Did you even pay attention when he did it? I built one the other day for my friend who hasn't even used a fucking computer in almost a decade, he literally asked me "should I get one of the mouse's with the laser or the ball on it?"

After we built it together he said "if I knew it was that easy I would have done it myself". It's not hard man

>>381108610
I don't think he actually knows how it is done if he's asking such questions. Might be a bit overconfident. Keep an eye on him still.

>>381108765
Well that's what I mean. He was practically computer illiterate, like an old man when we started, but by the end he realized that the process of actually building one is really easy. Most people just get nervous when they see all the fragile looking parts but in reality they're all pretty sturdy. I did tell him that if he has any issues with the finished product to call me before he fucks anything up.

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>>381106747
intel sure isn't

>>381098315
what is it

>>381101748
>The razer logo is speaking to me for some reason
>Know their products are shit and too overpriced
>bought chink razor stickers online
>put them on my PC
>tell my friends it's razor™

>>381072351
Yea