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I wish I could find a laptop with: - a none-nerfed NVidia GTX 1080 GPU - more than two hours of battery at full load - not a complete piece of garbage otherw

I wish I could find a laptop with: - a none-nerfed NVidia GTX 1080 GPU - more than two hours of battery at full load - not a complete piece of garbage otherwise I could deal with absolutely everything else on my own. Weight won't be a problem, as I'll be putting the thing in a backpack. The actual screen won't be a problem, I'll be plugging in a VR headset. Keyboard and trackpad aren't an issue, I'll be using VR controllers. I just want a max-spec VR rig that I can wear on my back for more than 2 hours. And if I'm not in VR, everything comes with USB-C now, so I should be able to setup a dock to my 4K monitor and good keyboard and mouse. Hell, forget the battery. I'll hack together a DC powerbank on my own; it's not that hard. I just want full power and not-garbage WiFi and audio drivers. But I've yet to find this computer. I've found a bunch of VR-ready laptops that creak under their own weight if you lift them by the corner, or they throttle the GPU even when plugged in, or they can't stay connected to a WiFi network for more than 4 hours, or they pick up EMF over the speakers from all over everywhere. I'm sorry, but if I'm going to be spending more than $3000 on a computer, I expect it to work and not break itself.

dagw 9y ago
Have you looked at the HP Omen X17. I've only looked at them in the store, but it should fulfill your requirements and while the build quality isn't Apple quality, it is the best build quality I've seen in a gaming laptop.
- moron4hire 9y ago
  I'll check that out. All the lights in the keyboard and angles in the case are not encouraging, though. I've generally found that "gaming laptops" are the worst-built pieces of crap on the market.
  - dagw 9y ago
    True. Unfortunately so far only "gaming laptops" come with gtx 1080 graphics cards as far as I know. Another option would be to get something like an HP Zbook with a Quadro P5000 card. That should give you performance in the same ballpark as the GTX 1080, but with a much better built laptop. Unfortunately we are then talking quite frankly stupid amounts on money.
pjc50 9y ago
> non-nerfed NVidia GTX 1080 GPU Surely that would be larger than most laptops on its own..
bryanlarsen 9y ago
How are you planning on wearing this on your back? You need to exhast more than 200W of heat, you can't just put that into a backpack! The battery required would be larger than the FAA will allow on an airplane; the limit is approximately 100 watt-hours and not surprisingly the largest battery I've ever seen in a laptop is 99 watt-hours.
- moron4hire 9y ago
  Backpacks are easy to customize with sharp knives and duct tape, and you're assuming one battery.

dagw 9y ago

Have you looked at the HP Omen X17. I've only looked at them in the store, but it should fulfill your requirements and while the build quality isn't Apple quality, it is the best build quality I've seen in a gaming laptop.

moron4hire 9y ago
I'll check that out. All the lights in the keyboard and angles in the case are not encouraging, though. I've generally found that "gaming laptops" are the worst-built pieces of crap on the market.
- dagw 9y ago
  True. Unfortunately so far only "gaming laptops" come with gtx 1080 graphics cards as far as I know. Another option would be to get something like an HP Zbook with a Quadro P5000 card. That should give you performance in the same ballpark as the GTX 1080, but with a much better built laptop. Unfortunately we are then talking quite frankly stupid amounts on money.

pjc50 9y ago

> non-nerfed NVidia GTX 1080 GPU Surely that would be larger than most laptops on its own..

bryanlarsen 9y ago

How are you planning on wearing this on your back? You need to exhast more than 200W of heat, you can't just put that into a backpack! The battery required would be larger than the FAA will allow on an airplane; the limit is approximately 100 watt-hours and not surprisingly the largest battery I've ever seen in a laptop is 99 watt-hours.

moron4hire 9y ago
Backpacks are easy to customize with sharp knives and duct tape, and you're assuming one battery.