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 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.