I'm a sellout

Tired of the desktop rat race and the giant box in my office. I've built several PCs since I built my first in the 90s. I've gone to laptop/external display setup.

I picked up the ASUS G15 AMD Advantage and paired it with a 27" QHD panel. I also got a 60% wireless RGB keyboard and wireless mouse with a nice bluetooth headset. This setup works great. I have my laptop when I go to the inlaws and need to escape into Wasteland 3 or Battletech, and then at home I just plug my dock into it and I have a full desktop setup. The best of both worlds. Plus I can stream my Xbox Series X to the monitor and just play that way too.

So TLDR I sold out and ditched desktop gaming for a laptop....also see ya'll next year as I forgot about Sharky until I got the birthday email. Hope everyone is well.

That isn't selling out, that's being practical! I have two excellent rigs, yet I'd gotten myself a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (AMD R7 5800H, 2x8GB DDR4 3200, RTX 3070 140W, 2560x1600), pretty beefy for a laptop, but I wanted to be able to game. It handles DSR pretty well too, not exactly blazing fast but but playable framerate for a good gaming experience. Oh yeah, I'd gotten a Keychron K2 w/l KB and an Asus TUF Gaming M4 w/l mouse for gaming as I hate the feel of membrane KBs.

Good luck with your laptop, and keep on gaming dude!:D

It sounds like you've made a solid upgrade, embracing the versatility of a laptop while still getting that desktop experience when you need it! Honestly, with the power of laptops like the ASUS G15 AMD Advantage, you're not really "selling out"?you're evolving. The convenience of portability, paired with a clean and powerful home setup, is hard to beat. And with your wireless setup, it?s like you?ve truly streamlined the experience.

I know it's about a year old thread, but what the heck....before getting the Legion 5 Pro, I had considered an AMD Advantage latop with a CPU similar to mine, but with an RX 6800M instead, but I'd have to pay more compared to the one I'd gotten. I figured the RX 6800M, while better in most rasterize gaming scenario, the mobile RTX 3070 would be better with RT enabled.....so, they're about even. Though I'd admit, the RX 6800M has 12GB of VRAM, which in the long run, would prove to be more useful in games.

OH what the heck, might as well keep this thread alive. For those who want a relatively powerful system for general uses, plus a little light gaming on the side, a mini PC would be a good alternative. I had a mini PC (Intel N100 + 16GB RAM + 512GB SSD) serving as my HTPC and while it's capable of playing MKV movies at 1080P with VLC Player, it does not allow for multi-tasking, that is, IF I were to reduce VLC to a Window tab, opening Chrome and surfing would result in pretty severe lagging. I've moved this mini PC to my room strictly for YouTube and net surfing, and have gotten another mini PC, though a fair bit beefier.
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Looks like it'll have sufficient ports for external storage and peripherals.

A screenshot of system specs.....not bad for such a small device (AMD R7 6800H + 32GB RAM + AMD 680M iGPU + 512GB NVMe SSD)
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Oh my, I took this new mini PC out for a proverbial spin, and it ran UT3 and Boltgun well enough, but it's performance in Lost Planet Extreme Condition was surprising. Maybe I've never really thought of mini PCs be game capable, but this badboy;s surprising the heck outta me. I know it'd struggle with games like Dead Space Remaster, but I can install the OG Dead Space in it and it'd crush it. Keeping my expectation grounded of course, but dang, these mini PCs have come a long way....;)