Anyone playing from a gaming laptop?

Coming back to PC from a long hiatus. I travel a decent amount and am considering a 4080 laptop instead of a desktop.

My plan is to just hook it up to my 1440p monitors in my office and treat it like a desktop for the weeks I’m home, but have a competent gaming machine when I’m not home too. Battery life isn’t too big of a deal since I’m never planning to be away from an outlet, mostly just different desks on different weeks.

I’ve never tried a gaming laptop though. I know 10 or so years ago they were extremely compromised experiences, though it seems people have sort of warmed up to them. How are they? Could anyone share their experience?

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Did it during Covid for the first year and even during a good portion of Cata.
Current owner of a Razer Blade and still have my old trusty MSI laptop from 2011.

I mean nothings changed since 2011ish at least in my eyes. They can be loud during gaming session and if you don’t have external keyboards/mouse they can be a little lack luster. They are just an expensive portable desktop replacement.

The only concern nowadays is how a lot of laptop manufacturers are integrating the batteries into the laptop and making it somewhat invasive and time consuming to remove. A lot of modern battery has battery bloating (Razer being the most notorious).

Laptop tech is a little bit different compare to desktop recommendation. Most of the time its get the best you can get as laptop performance will show its age quicker and there is little you can do to help it.

There is also diminishing returns, I didn’t keep up with laptop tech this gen, but last gen anything above the 3070 had a steep diminishing return in the GPU department.

My razer blade is semi retire at this point, still sometimes use it for short sessions if I’m doing something with my desktop.

If you’re in a unique situation like mine where you have a dedicated space at the office and home with monitors peripherals maybe look into a sffpc? I built in the formd t1 and have a travel bag for it that I bring between locations

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I sometimes play on a Lenovo Legion. Because of size difference of the screen and keyboard, I only do leisurely activities when playing WoW such as pet battle, running legacy raids, and events such as the Trial of Style right now. Anything that does not require precise attention.
I’ve tried raiding and questing on current content, but the interface is too small for me to effectively play on my laptop. I do all that on my PC with its dual 32" displays.

My Razer Blade 15 (RTX 2070) still holds its own at medium settings. I purchased an eGPU enclosure (Razer Core X) and was running a GTX 1080Ti. I have an RTX 3070 that i’m tempted to upgrade the enclosure with and I should be good for the next couple of years.

The enclosure if portable enough if you were looking for an extended stay somewhere though the laptop is perfect for a 2-3 stay somewhere. I would pick up an eGPU (doesn’t have to be a Razer one) enclosure that you can keep at home and can upgrade when new hardware drops.

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