Hey anons what are your thoughts on gaming laptops? Which ones are the good ones...

>It will break and / or be useless within like 4 years tops
This is wrong, I had a gaming laptop that worked well for 8 years before upgrading. It still worked when I stored it.
>Battery life is shut too
This is true. You'll be lucky to get 2 hours of use, max.

Expect to pay top dollar if you want decent specs as well.

If you just need something that packs up easily and only use it near outlets, knock yourself out, they're alright for that kind of use. If you need it for actual work shit on the go as well, it'll just make you hate yourself for the choices you've made and you should get a good Thinkpad or whatever instead.

Laptops are more expensive, don't last as long and are less comfortable. IMO your best bet is to get a decent desktop PC and just use in home streaming to play on your laptop if desired. It's fine for everything but online shooters, and I don't know why you'd want to play FPS on a laptop anyway.

the general consensus is that they are mostly shit. But if you've made your mind on getting one I would recommend something from the Lenovo Legion line. I had an old Y480 that allowed me to play most games at medium settings with tolerable framerate.

Buy the PREDATOR

What a fag

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BLEACHED

I got an MSI one about three years ago when I went to study abroad, and it's still in good condition performance-wise, but yeah the battery life is fucking shit.

I've owned a few so take the following as you will. Everything is a trade-off as far as laptops are concerned. Nail down exactly what you need in a laptop and don't compromise, you will hate the thing if you don't, as you can't swap out parts.
Be prepared to pay out the ass if you don't want low quality garbage aimed at the fortnite kids. Look at what you'll be playing and find something with system specs ABOVE what the game wants. Thermal/power throttling is a thing, even if you don't throttle, laptop parts are usually clocked lower. You will also want to undervolt the parts once you get the laptop, so that will take a few hours.
If you want a system that's upgradeable, you need to get one of those briefcases from sager/clevo. Even then, the motherboard will not be upgradeable, so you're stuck with whatever the socket/chipset on the board supports.
If you want battery life, you will need an nvidia optimus system. You will learn to hate optimus (switchable graphics) if you get one of those systems. The only real way I've found to guarantee a laptop that doesn't have it is to look for gsync.
If you want a thin and light laptop to carry around, be prepared for something to break on it at any time, they're fragile as fuck. In addition, opening them up for servicing takes forever and you can easily break shit if you don't know what you're doing.
Speaking of opening them up, you will most likely want an ssd only system and want to swap out the thermal paste, as the dried cum they smear between the coolers sucks.
The displays will vary in quality a lot. Ghosting/overshooting/lag/shit viewing angles are all problems that are fairly common. You need to find a good review or test them yourself if you want a good display.
Finding something with high specs and something that doesn't scream gaymer manchild with flashing rainbow colors plastered all over it is near impossible.

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I like mine, but the battery is shit now and never lasted more than a couple hours when it was new. One would probably work well in your circumstances though as long as there's an outlet nearby.

Inconcievably shit waifu, along with Hestia

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get out of your parents house

Just do a mini ITX build

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Any from a reputable brand will be just fine.

Laptops have long since ironed out most of their issues. My last gaming laptop lasted 7 years before it had any sort of issues and it was completely fixable, it was an ASUS. I just didn't bother because I was due for an upgrade anyway.

I'm currently using an Acer Nitro 5. Wouldn't suggest, honestly. It's functional and it works, but its the kind of laptop that you need to be comfortable opening to repaste, which is very easy mind you, and messing with the undervolting settings. After you do so its perfect but its a low end gaming laptop. The upside is its very cheap, mine was like $500 so obviously they skimped on the cooling a bit so you have to have dive in and do some tweaks. But I haven't had any problems with mine so far.

Don't be a retard and expect good battery life, that's not the point. They're just meant to be something you stuff in a bag and connect to the wall wherever you're going. Also I would strongly avoid any "thin and light" gaming laptops. Those almost always have the worst cooling and while they usually work, I would just get something a little beefier with a good heatsink.

Yeah agreeing with this guy. My Sager is as good as a desktop but I still need to make sure it has good ventilation, and I can't use it on battery much.

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I can play modern AAA games with 30+fps on a 11 year old low spec dell XPS I got as what was then a temporary solution.

As long as you become best friends with nvidia inspector and 960x540 resolution any moderately decent laptop can do anything you need of it. It just won't look super pretty doing it.
I've only had to do two different replacements over the years. first was about eh, 6 years the fan needed replacing. then last year my hard drive started dying and I finally upgraded it from 500something to 1tb, replaced the fan again too because why not.

if you are willing to pay more than a couple hundred you could get a high spec gaming laptop that'll last you a long time.
or you could just get a non-gaming one like I did if it won't be that long. I only really needed to whip out nvidia inspector about eh, 4 years ago? and I didn't know of the sorcery that was 960x540 at that time. some modern games I can get by on just in game settings with 960x540.

You'll be stuck to a power outlet most times - 4-5 hours usually with stuff like browsing. Most games will run the juice out in 2 hours at most, usually bout half that.

Gaming laptops are not bad but get the review of the model on notebookcheck.net and see for thermals, throttling and FPS for the spec. A 2060 laptop would run most games in high and at 60 fps at 1080p

120+fps screen, 2160p+ resolution are both gimmicks and shit on a gaming laptop.

I'd push for a 17 inch if you can take the weight since it has better cooling usually.
Also get a usb hub or a dock since if you bust a port, it's going to be repaired, if you bust a port then it's like what, $5?
Also get a cooling pad, a good one with at least two fans, targus make nice ones.

>avatar fagging

reminds me of

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Nah. 120FPS is great on lower resolution screens. Yeah if you get a 4k screen at 120hz or something, that's retarded even for desktops, but mine is 1080p/120hz and its amazing. I will never go back to 60hz after using it. Plus it depends on the games you're playing. If you only care about playing the latest released game at maxed settings then its probably not the best decision but if you're willing to compromise or you play even slightly older games, its more than worth it.