Gaming laptop growth pauses as 4K Desktop PCs ignite interest

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Gaming PC hardware market will recede a little before picking up pace again in 2016, says JPR.

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I've looked at a few gaming laptops, and there's always the same concerns. The high end ones don't come with SSDs as standard, and where they do offer the option, it's always low end ones with small capacities. Most also offer only 16gb ram max. You won't see 64gb.

They don't offer the option to choose your thermal paste, and they won't offer more than a 3 year warranty, which is usually return to base instead of onsite.

Most laptops also have the air exhaust port on the left or right side instead of the back, so you have the fan noise during gaming always on one ear.

Offtopic but are there any 15 to 19 inch IPS monitors that you can angle back like a laptop screen, and that sit down touching the table when straight?

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I've looked at a few gaming laptops, and there's always the same concerns. The high end ones don't come with SSDs as standard, and where they do offer the option, it's always low end ones with small capacities.

Ermm, the high-end ones ONLY come with SSDs...

Most laptops also have the air exhaust port on the left or right side instead of the back, so you have the fan noise during gaming always on one ear.

Most gaming laptops have two exhaust ports, one on each side of the rear.

What have you been looking at, 2006 models?

And frankly, you're clutching at straws if you're thinking "asymmetric fan noise" is a major drawback...

[plexabit]

I've looked at a few gaming laptops, and there's always the same concerns. The high end ones don't come with SSDs as standard, and where they do offer the option, it's always low end ones with small capacities.

Ermm, the high-end ones ONLY come with SSDs...

Most laptops also have the air exhaust port on the left or right side instead of the back, so you have the fan noise during gaming always on one ear.

Most gaming laptops have two exhaust ports, one on each side of the rear.

What have you been looking at, 2006 models?

And frankly, you're clutching at straws if you're thinking "asymmetric fan noise" is a major drawback...

Not only that, but there's a lot of people (xoticpc, etc) that will apply custom thermal paste for you (for a price)...

[AlexKitch]

My problem with gaming laptops is that they're just so dreadful.

They overheat, they're noisy, they're underpowered, they're heavy, and the batteries last five minutes. I could forgive most of that if they weren't so obscenely *expensive*!

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The major problem with gaming laptops is that there is no defined standards for replaceable graphics,or even external graphics cards, adopted by all the companies,and even when MXM cards are used they are hard to buy and there can be incompatibility issues.

[Sumanji]

My problem with gaming laptops is that they're just so dreadful.

They overheat, they're noisy, they're underpowered, they're heavy, and the batteries last five minutes. I could forgive most of that if they weren't so obscenely *expensive*!

Razer Blade.

Everything apart from the battery life is great (and even 4-ish hours of productivity at reasonable screen brightness isn't totally horrible).

[qasdfdsaq]

My problem with gaming laptops is that they're just so dreadful.

They overheat, they're noisy, they're underpowered, they're heavy, and the batteries last five minutes. I could forgive most of that if they weren't so obscenely *expensive*!

My problem with forum users is exaggeration and hyperbole. There's gaming laptops that are more powerful than the GTX970 in my desktop and last four hours.

The major problem with gaming laptops is that there is no defined standards for replaceable graphics,or even external graphics cards, adopted by all the companies,and even when MXM cards are used they are hard to buy and there can be incompatibility issues.

Eh. Soooo many things are proprietary or non-upgradeable in laptops, this isn't really a surprise. That said Thunderbolt 3 could standardize external graphics, but internals are always going to be difficult to upgrade.