I don't understand why anyone still buys/builds a PC tower anymore

You can get a serious high powered laptop, that can handle the most intense games, for 2k or less. And it's portable. And there are high quality usb powered aux monitors to add screenspace. I guess some people are just too old school to know there are sweet new options.

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Northwest · M

It depends on the type of games you play and how serious of a gamer you want to be.

There's also the "look" of one's rig.

A $2K laptop will do the job but it's not going to properly compete with a gaming "system", driving dual 4K, 240Hz monitors, and putting on a "light show" through a transparent case.

Unless you spend $5K on a laptop, you will end up with subpar graphics subsystem, using lower speed shred main/graphics memory.

I don't do gaming, but I have a $5K MacbookPro, driving two 4K monitors, for software development purposes.

When I'm on the road, I take along a single 4K think monitors that doesn't need a power supply, and feeds for power/data through a USB-C high-speed cable.

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@Northwest that's just not true at all; a gaming laptop costing 2.5K dollars can nearly rival a MacBook Pro costing double that amount, albeit with less efficiency and battery. even GDDR5X from 8 years ago and GDDR5 from 16 years ago is faster than LP-DDR5X; GDDR6 and GDDR6X run circles around it even more (what current dGPUs use since 2018 and 2020 respectively). Just checked and the M4 Max iGPU in MacBook Pro reaches 160GB/s bandwith, meanwhile GDDR6X can reach up to 1TB/s bandwith lmao.

For half the price of a MacBook Pro, I can get a gaming laptop with i7 14650HX or R9 AI HX 370, RTX 4080 MaxP or RX 7800M, 12GB GDDR6X with ReBar or Infinity Cache, 32GB DDR5 @ 5600MHZ, 1TB NVME SSD, Windows 11 Pro, and QHD 300HZ or 4K 144HZ. You clearly don't know what you're spewing when even the desktop RTX 4090 SLi can't achieve AI upscaled 4K with consistent 240HZ with path tracing (full ray tracing) in the latest games. Also USB-C is a form factor, which doesn't determine the bandwith; the numerical version determines the bandwith lmao.

Northwest · M

@uikakarotuevegeta

that's just not true at all; a gaming laptop costing 2.5K dollars can nearly rival a MacBook Pro costing double that amount

For instance?

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@Northwest can you read or you trolling

Northwest · M

@uikakarotuevegeta

can you read or you trolling

You said:

that's just not true at all; a gaming laptop costing 2.5K dollars can nearly rival a MacBook Pro costing double that amount

And I said: for instance. Can you read? That's not too difficult to decipher.

uikakarotuevegeta · 26-30

@Northwest bye bye troll