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.
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.