Eurocom's Sky X9 Is More Desktop Than Laptop

[quasimod]

Is there some contest on "How much hardware can you fit into a laptop? How many hundred people actually need this?
Personally, I'll continue to use my laptop for when I'm on the move and my (much cheaper) desktop for gaming.

There are a significant number of people who lead lives that are very different from yours. Millions of people who spend a big chunk of their lives on the road might want this. Nobody -needs- any gaming system. And very few people want to lug an entire desktop system into a hotel room.

 

[Darkbreeze]

That's true. But the bottom line here is that even the best, most precisely configured laptop is going to have heat issues during extended gaming if it has high end graphics and you are playing demanding games, especially at high settings. This is a fact. You simply cannot provide sufficient cooling of the type that's necessary to cool high end hardware, in a chassis that's smaller than most phone books. The very likely result is almost always component damage due to thermal fatigue, or severe throttling. It may take some time for these effects to manifest themselves, but eventually, given circumstances that include trying to game as though you DID have a desktop with sufficient cooling, there WILL be issues at some point.

I have yet to see any of the high end "gaming" laptops, even considering they only used high end mobile GPUs, that didn't encounter these thermal issues when pushed under demanding loads for extended periods, as most all gamers do, so it's extremely unlikely even given the addition of a third fan that any laptop with a desktop GPU solution is going to remain thermally stable. Being proven wrong over the long term would be a welcome result, but I have serious doubts. Half the high end laptops out there can't even keep their CPUs cool, much less packing both high end CPU and GPU card considerations.

 

[quasimod]

Absolutely. I'd love to see a reasonably spec'd ~22" AIO, that completely packs away into a hard-shell backpack will appear. Since "nobody" wants one of those, I'm not very optimistic.