Gaming laptop or no?

[W1NN1NG]

Thoughts on buying a gaming laptop right now with the way the GPU market is currently .
I'm thinking about buying an Asus GL503VS . It has a 1080p 144hz gsync display, gtx 1070, 7700hq, 256gb nvme SSD, and a 1tb firecuda along with 16gb of ram.
The original plan was for me to build a 1440p rig this go around but prices are so outrageous I don't think I can get away with building a similarly specced pc for less than 1900 and that has to include the price of the monitor, and I know the laptop is only 1080p and that's fine. I don't mind either way. But regardless that price needs to include a 144hz gsync display. Or 120hz doesn't matter I don't guess and I'd like to have a 1070 as well. Prices are just too insane right now.
Thoughts?

 

[grace]

I also want to buy a gaming laptop.

 

[Zuuk]

Gaming laptops have really come long ways with the Pascal cards being pretty much equal to their desktop brethren. I've had 17" Clevo based unit with a desktop 6700 and desktop grade 980, and I've had a Razer blade 14 with a 7700HQ and 1060.

I enjoyed gaming on the 17" machine more since it had a 75hz g-sync monitor and a bigger screen...but you lose the portability aspect.
The blade was awesome aesthetic wise but ran hot and 14" screen + gaming was not optimal.

I just saw a barebone coffeelake 15" Clevo chassis on eBay that had a 120hz screen and 1060 for 799€ ( 850$). Slap on a i5 8400, a cheap stick of DDR4 sodimm and your choice of m.2 SSD / SSHD etc. For little over a grand you'd have a six core laptop with a 1060...which 2 years back would have been unheard of.

 

[rcodi]

If you absolutely have to have it now then it's probably a viable choice until GPU prices tank but doesn't really seem like a smart decision long term. You're looking at the standard laptop problems which are exasperated with gaming laptops: rapid depreciation, limited/no upgrade path, poor ergonomics versus a desktop.

I think if you can just be patient and wait until the GPU market gets better then a desktop is always going to be more practical unless you absolutely have to be mobile, I tried the gaming laptop and even eGPU lifestyle before and it's just a road of compromises.

I noticed before posting that this was a month old thread bump but the situation hasn't changed much since then so hopefully I can dissuade a few other people that stumble upon this thread.

 

[dan1337]

In my opinion gaming laptop is an oxymoron, maybe im too stuck in my ways