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After watching all the issues my friend had with gaming laptops, I'm sure I won't buy one. He also decided to not do so again, as he used it to work as a progra
by juanci_to 5y ago
After watching all the issues my friend had with gaming laptops, I'm sure I won't buy one. He also decided to not do so again, as he used it to work as a programmer, running Linux. A GPU was not a priority for him in first place and it proved it to be more of a problem than a benefit for his use case
Temperature and battery issues were just a part of it. Also some other problems, like an HDMI port that suddenly died, just to name an example. Coincidentally, it was an Asus ROG
I decided that if I want a GPU to use with my laptop for playing some games, I'll opt for an external one
- pipeline_peak 5y agoI agree that gaming laptops are a bad idea. I only suggested the ROG because it's a good value if one were to get one. They have the limited hardware customization of a laptop and the portability of an all in one desktop. Because the money goes into the performance, a lot of them seem to be built cheapy as well lol. This System76 thing, (btw, likely a rebadged Clevo or Sager given their history) has a plastic bezel, maybe that's normal idk. I like the idea of a nicely built ultra book with an eGPU. But I'd imagine the performance would be lost compared to PCIe, not to mention unpredictable support.
- juanci_to 5y ago>I like the idea of a nicely built ultra book with an eGPU. But I'd imagine the performance would be lost compared to PCIe, not to mention unpredictable support. I'm using a Framework Laptop now, which apparently supports eGPU. Although, the video I saw was from someone doing it on Windows. I might give it a try maybe next year to play with one in Linux. But yes, I expect it to be under-performant against a PCIe