I only ask as gaming on laptop is mediocre at best, loud and hot
If you got a gaming laptop already and still looking then far enough, most people go from console straight to gaming laptop thinking life will be great usually ends up on eBay after few weeks
4080 laptop is about able to keep up. Don't mind the desktops performance. Don't mind the noise (headphone gamer). Don't mind 1 sweaty palm from the laptop keyboard.
Laptops are "fine". You're just paying a lot more for similar power levels and highest end desktop parts will always stomp them. Something that holds a candle to MOST desktops (5x00???/Intel 11/12/13 series + something like a desktop rtx 3080/4070) is completely doable in very high end laptop format. If I had the £3K spare, the 4090 laptop is monsterous for it's form factor.
A good proportion of the "laptops are poor for gaming" crowd are on a desktop the best laptops will beat (as you suggest with more noise and heat, sure. I mean, I might even modify my drawer if I go to 1 machine, laptop, so it's a "cooling box" for the lappy to sit, in removing a lot of the heat and noise when it's "docked" ). (edited)
i would have said take a look at PC specialist, but they don't have the 4080 in stock. If you go for the recoil then you can attach an external watercooler (which is essential for the 4090) which will help keep it cool and reduce the fan noise.
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Yeah, the current ones (the wifes) a pc specialist. It's not inspiringly awesome in any way but it's been a pretty solid workhorse to be fair. Will ave a look, ta. (edited)
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sorted byI only ask as gaming on laptop is mediocre at best, loud and hot
If you got a gaming laptop already and still looking then far enough, most people go from console straight to gaming laptop thinking life will be great usually ends up on eBay after few weeks
Been PC since about 1994/the original pentium.
4080 laptop is about able to keep up. Don't mind the desktops performance. Don't mind the noise (headphone gamer). Don't mind 1 sweaty palm from the laptop keyboard.
Laptops are "fine". You're just paying a lot more for similar power levels and highest end desktop parts will always stomp them. Something that holds a candle to MOST desktops (5x00???/Intel 11/12/13 series + something like a desktop rtx 3080/4070) is completely doable in very high end laptop format. If I had the £3K spare, the 4090 laptop is monsterous for it's form factor.
A good proportion of the "laptops are poor for gaming" crowd are on a desktop the best laptops will beat (as you suggest with more noise and heat, sure. I mean, I might even modify my drawer if I go to 1 machine, laptop, so it's a "cooling box" for the lappy to sit, in removing a lot of the heat and noise when it's "docked" ). (edited)