Many of my friends owned gaming laptops about ten years ago, before they began building their own PCs. Many of them would fail in a few of years, either due to a deterioration in battery life or performance in comparison to contemporary computers.
I just got a job offer as a flight attendant, thus I’ll be traveling a lot and would like to take my steam library with me. Because of what I’ve seen happen to my friends’ gaming laptops in the past, I’m apprehensive and thinking about getting a steam deck instead. But I enjoy KB+M gaming and combat games, thus the option to utilize both keyboard and controller is crucial to me.
In my instance, I don’t require top-tier standards. I’ve been using a 1070 and a Ryzen 7 5800x and am pleased with the results. Is it possible to buy a midrange gaming laptop without worrying about it failing in a few years?
My legion 5 with r7 4800H 1660Ti is still working fine. I had to clean out the fans and repaste thermals after near 5 years of use.as long as you get a reputable model, i think it’ll be fine.
It’s usually heat from lack of maintenance that kills them, just keep the fans/vents clean and monitor temperatures and it’ll look after you just as much as you look after it.
Depends completely on what you’re playing, AAA games the last couple of years have been really mid. I bought a 3070ti AW a couple of years ago and it’s all I need, tbh not been used in 6 months since I got an ally. On the other end of that my near 10yo xps with a 2gb gtx960 still plays most of the games I enjoy on pc like total war Warhammer, Star Wars the old republic and it emulates brilliantly. For game pass stuff the ally and alien obviously are where I go but if you look after your temps laptops can last ages
