4 ms·
I agree. If I wanted max power and cooling efficiency, I'd go for a PC anyway. When picking a laptop, my first question is whether I would be able to carelessly
by lpapez 3y ago
I agree. If I wanted max power and cooling efficiency, I'd go for a PC anyway. When picking a laptop, my first question is whether I would be able to carelessly carry it around every day.
The compromise with bulky gaming laptops is simply not worth IMO - it's not as good of a desktop computer as an actual desktop, and not as good of a laptop as some notebook. It's nice to be ocassionally able to do something more serious while on the go, but that is optimizing for the 10% use-case instead of the 90% use-case.
- jusssi 3y agoThere is the case of "home laptop". Something that you rarely or never carry around, but you still don't want a stationary desktop PC for whatever reason.
- Dalewyn 3y agoIf you aren't staying somewhere permanently but also aren't moving in the immediate future (eg: college dorm) or your living space is constrained (eg: a trucker or an RVer), it definitely makes sense to have something powerful in a form factor that is "temporary", low-maintenance, and mostly self-contained.
- andruby 3y agoI suppose the market for those is probably too small for the manufacturers to invest in.
- pmontra 3y agoMy home laptop is my work laptop, a 30 mm thick ZBook 15 from HP. I move it in several rooms according to the season. Some rooms get too hot in summer, others are OK. Same thing for winter. I could buy a desktop and remote desktop to it from a lighter laptop (maybe with a monitor, mouse and keyboard? too much stuff to move) but sometimes I don't work from home. Not every year now. Thankfully covid took care of nearly all of those days spent at a customer's premises.
- fomine3 3y agoNot having a "PC desk" is common in some countries. They need laptop even if it's not quite portable.