Why are gaming laptops seen as a bad thing?

why are gaming laptops seen as a bad thing?

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butthurt poorfags are mad they aren't part of the real master race

Because they tend to be horribly engineered. They rarely feature the cooling needed to operate effectively and utilize the components they have within. If not, they have a high failure rate.

loud
they heat up
too much bulk defeats the purpose of mobility
tiny screen size

They're inefficient for the price and covered in ricer garbage.

If you have enough money to buy a good gaming laptop, you should build a desktop instead. But if you insist on using a laptop to play vidya, only use it for indie titles or the occasional roguelike. Nobody needs to play Crysis 3 while on a twelve hour flight to Singapore or whatever.

>gaming drains battery
>means you're plugged in all the time
might as well get a desktop
though I've played mountain blade (not warband) for 12 hours straight on an X220 with 2 batteries
if you wanna play modern shit you're fukked

You can't use a desktop while lying in bed.

touche but you can wrap yourself in blankets in a cozy chair that reclines with a leg raiser.

>gaming
>laptop

I have one, they aren't as good as a desktop since battery life conflicts with performance.
No matter what, you could buy a better performing desktop over a laptop.
My battery dies in like an hour of normal non-game use at highest performance, otherwise any little bit of battery saving techniques will make things lag.
I probably only get like 4 hours of battery now on the power saving graphics card along with way worse performance and increased lag in normal activities.

bed is for sleeping

>bed is for sleeping
I don't understand.

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>tfw gaming laptop I've had for the past 6 years is starting to show signs of failure and its hard drive keeps acting slow as fuck (windows 7)
>tfw don't want to build a gaming pc but probably have to at this rate
We've had a good run old friend, thank you for all the Civ 5 and TF2 games.

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>Not being apart of the TRUE masterrace PC+Switch+Ps4
Bed is for consoles.

Is building a PC pretty easy?
I honestly don't know much about how computers are built at all and have no idea where to start.

The only people who have any reason to buy one are people that are unable to be at a desktop due to some reason in life, and people that game on the go are seen as faggots. Nintendo Switch.
Plus if you are gaming on the go you probably won't have an internet connection as is.

Because they are extremely overpriced, overheat to the point that the GPU and CPU can't be used at its full potential. For the same price you could build a PC that actually works and wont overheat or sound like a fucking F-22 jet.

If you already own a gaming PC and you just want a gaming laptop for traveling than I wouldn't buy anything higher than a GTX1060 and lower than a 860m. That's the sweet spot for laptops. Everything else is overpriced or outdated.

It really is. I was very intimidated about building a pc and even bought a prebuilt years ago. Eventually I decided to upgrade, and built a new one from scratch.
It will take you anywhere between 1-3 hours if it's your first time building, but it's not that hard at all. You can even look up guides on how to properly put everything together

I have a $100 chromebook with linux on it. it's snappy for webbrowsing, can playback 1080p video, play low-end games natively, and I use steam in-house streaming to play anything more demanding off of my main pc.

I don't see the need for anything more in a laptop

I have an ASUS laptop. The only negative thing I'd say about it is the fucking gay ass republic of gamers nonsense they put engraved on it.

heat up very quickly
likely cant use graphics card to full potential
for the amount of money you may as well buy a desktop
poor battery life

I got one 5 years ago. I leave it turned on like 24/7 and play lots of games on it with no issues so far. I'm planning on buying another one after all the 7-10nm chips are out just because all the new tech sound thrilling. Also because I want one with HDMI 2.1 for HDR and all that stuff.

You pay premium pricing for a subpar package.
The main problem is that if the screen somehow were to get roached, or any individual compartment for that matter, it's a pain in the ass to repair.
I actually have a laptop that can run most games and I am not happy with it, but sunken cost. I can't afford to drop another 600+ until this one dies.

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>Bought a 1070ti
>After a few months it was crashing, and ran hot as shit ever since I had it
>Sent it in to EVGA for warranty service
>They sent me a 1080 back
Can't do that with a laptop

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Mobile GPUs used to be severly gimped versions of their desktop counterparts. But it's no longer true with the 10 series. Some of them are basically identical abeit it won't be able to boost as much and as long as the desktop because of thermals.

Definitely not for the average person but it has its uses. I remember some user has to demo a VR game a different places so a 1060 laptop came in handy.

Pretty sure I have the same one, I've been honestly surprised how good it is. That said, I genuinely might not have bought the thing if that engraving had been visible in any of the promo material.

How long does it take to backup files from a laptop?
I feel like mine will over heat after too long.

It really isnt a bad computer. But yea I agree, i have no idea what they were thinking

Power, cooling, portability - pick any two. Gaming laptops have come far, but there's limits to what you can do.