I feel like I see a fair amount of gaming laptops in the US but a majority of people seem to still game on desktop. I guess what I am looking for is a ratio of one versus the other otherwise a country like China might dominate on numbers alone.

When looking for searching online for this I was mostly coming across pros and cons lists. This isn’t what I am after.

  • Jake [he/him]
    74·
    9 months ago

    Having all that heat in a laptop sucks bad. Maybe if a person is super into gaming and in a dorm or something they might use one for gaming. The really capable laptop GPUs like a 16GB all but negate the benefits of a laptop. The battery life is terrible, the noise is annoying, and the heat is everywhere, like blowing around the keys onto your hand. Plus you have an even more obscure hardware chain with modern laptops having all kinds of closed source and poorly supported nonsense that sucks.

    Your thermals are tied between the CPU and GPU in a laptop. If either is over loaded thermally both will throttle. There are also a lot more thermal interrupt states in a laptop GPU. If anyone tries to hack around with these to push them past their inbuilt safety margins while following guides that are intended for the desktop GPU version of the hardware it can easily lead to failure.

    The only real reason to get a gaming laptop is if you travel a lot, if you’re extremely space restricted like sharing a bedroom with someone, or if you’re disabled and need the ergonomics for a specific reason.

    I don’t see how any aspect mentioned is regional in nature.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      A lot of college kids I met have gaming laptops. It’s more than just a gaming device. I’ve seen them in classes and during hang outs.

      It’s either gaming laptops or Macs.

      I feel like a old foggy with a gaming tower.

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I don’t see how any aspect mentioned is regional in nature.

      I feel like what’s in-style is going to be more important than thermals and overall specs. Maybe in some countries it’s more common to carry a laptop with you? Maybe desktops are viewed as “dated” because laptops have become the norm in schools? Maybe it has something to do with tech literacy? Maybe it’s easier to acquire desktop components versus laptops in some places?

        • Corroded@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I think it is likely that most people that buy a laptop like these, see the shit show and the scam market and say fuck that, just give me a single product that mostly works.

          This attitude could be more prevalent in different areas of the world though. Imagine somewhere in Eastern Asia that’s flooded with dated low-grade products from China compared to the US where you don’t see a lot of laptop brands you’ve never heard of before. There’s going to be different levels of skepticism.