I have a steam deck for that, for work (also traveling sometimes months at a time) i have a big Workstation laptop and carry a docking station.
I tend to have nicer and more relaxing gaming sessions on my deck, and it also doesn’t sound like a fighter jet and screams it needs power after 20 minutes of working under load.
Hm… Competitive is something i don’t like, but i play other resource heavy games like rimworld with basically the entire steam workshop or Dyson Sphere Program. They are working nicely on Steam Deck and you can play on a couch or in the plane or basically any place. You need a table for a laptop and external hardware for playing, at least a mouse or gamepead
I can see that, playing a shooter on steam deck would probably not be that nice.
The biggest problem with gaming laptops i see is that they are as expensive or even more as a tower of better specs, and that they don’t actually have mobility, shure you can carry them from outlet to outlet, but a laptop should be able to run a few hours independent of a power source all gaming laptops i tried can’t do that. Also i don’t like the small keyboard layouts most regular laptops have, my workstation laptop has full sized keyboard with numpead and i carry a mouse with 16 buttons (F13-F24, and a side scroll wheel on the mouse) and the gaming laptops usually have the small keyboards without numpead and double use F1-F12 keys.
The biggest problem with gaming laptops i see is that they are as expensive or even more as a tower of better specs
Just like SFF PCs you pay a penalty for the small size. There’s always trade offs.
And if you’re only going to look at it as FPS per dollar these laptops blow the steam deck out of the water. The steam deck is a highly power constrained APU with its integrated graphics stealing power from the CPU while the laptop has a full fat 55+ watt CPU and 55+ watt GPU.
Many of these lower end gaming laptops get decent battery life too. We have one at work that gets 3-4 hours of battery life.
I have a steam deck for that, for work (also traveling sometimes months at a time) i have a big Workstation laptop and carry a docking station.
I tend to have nicer and more relaxing gaming sessions on my deck, and it also doesn’t sound like a fighter jet and screams it needs power after 20 minutes of working under load.
I also have a steam deck, but if I’m trying to play anything competitive I bust out the laptop.
Hm… Competitive is something i don’t like, but i play other resource heavy games like rimworld with basically the entire steam workshop or Dyson Sphere Program. They are working nicely on Steam Deck and you can play on a couch or in the plane or basically any place. You need a table for a laptop and external hardware for playing, at least a mouse or gamepead
Yeah, I do enjoy the steam deck for things like that. For comp stuff I’m m&k anyway, so I lug an actual keyboard and good mouse as well. 😊
I can see that, playing a shooter on steam deck would probably not be that nice.
The biggest problem with gaming laptops i see is that they are as expensive or even more as a tower of better specs, and that they don’t actually have mobility, shure you can carry them from outlet to outlet, but a laptop should be able to run a few hours independent of a power source all gaming laptops i tried can’t do that. Also i don’t like the small keyboard layouts most regular laptops have, my workstation laptop has full sized keyboard with numpead and i carry a mouse with 16 buttons (F13-F24, and a side scroll wheel on the mouse) and the gaming laptops usually have the small keyboards without numpead and double use F1-F12 keys.
Just like SFF PCs you pay a penalty for the small size. There’s always trade offs.
And if you’re only going to look at it as FPS per dollar these laptops blow the steam deck out of the water. The steam deck is a highly power constrained APU with its integrated graphics stealing power from the CPU while the laptop has a full fat 55+ watt CPU and 55+ watt GPU.
Many of these lower end gaming laptops get decent battery life too. We have one at work that gets 3-4 hours of battery life.