Are Expensive Gaming Laptops Actually Worth It?

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I compare a budget gaming laptop to something a bit more expensive.

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For those of you asking for HP benchmarks with a RAM upgrade. I dropped a 32GB 4800Mhz kit in and ran a couple benchmarks.
BFV @ 1080P High
Stock: Avg 65, 1% 11
Upgrade: Avg 69, 1% 24
CP 2077 @ 1080P High
Stock: Avg 33 FPS, 1% 11
Upgrade: Avg 35 FPS 1% 26
It didn’t make as much of a difference as I was expecting, but the RTX 2050 seemed to be the bottleneck. I’m doing a follow up video where I put it through its paces more. Thanks for watching, bye!

DawidDoesTechStuff

No, they arent.

Side note, edit: **Gaming** Laptops have bad ergonomics, throttle because of *physical* constraints, and arent as repairable as they used to be. Even cheaper used workstation ones are less of an unrepairable fire hazard.

Sales dont make a laptop "better". Look at the 4090.

hiko

*"I'd take a couple of mm for RAM upgradability any day of the week."* Pure gold. Thin is good, when it doesn't get in the way of user experience.

bomj-valera

That hp was on sale for 450 over Black Friday last year and was actually an insane deal

devonward

As a guy who doesn't travel a lot, let me share this: the lifespan of gaming gear is what interests me. I still drive a 4790 and a 1080ti. Handles everything I throw at it. Those are 10+ year old parts, and they've lasted and lasted. What I have noticed is that gaming laptops tend to eat themselves, usually due to thermal issues, or stress on the hardware due to mishandling. And once they're broken there's no fixing them. They're like Lamborghinis or Ferraris. Very nice, very sporty, super fast...for a very, *very* limited amount of time. I'd need to replace a gaming laptop once every 3-3.5 years, I reckon. And that's just not in my price range. That said there's much to consider about the budget gaming laptop that I quite liked, namely: it's a budget gaming laptop! Honestly I didn't see the performance dip as that big an issue. It was 141 frames vs. 160+ frames in that Battlefield demo Dawid ran, and that's a non-issue for me.

thedungeondelver

- [00:00] 💻 Comparison between a budget gaming laptop and an expensive one.
- [01:18] 🎮 Budget gaming laptop ($800 CAD) features Ryzen 5 7535HS CPU and RTX 2050 GPU.
- [02:22] 💰 Expensive gaming laptop ($2, 200 CAD) includes Ryzen 9 8945HS CPU and RTX 4070 GPU.
- [02:34] 🏗 Build quality difference: HP laptop (plastic) vs. Asus Zephyrus G14 (metal, glass).
- [04:24] ⌨ HP laptop features a serviceable keyboard and trackpad, Asus offers a more satisfying experience.
- [04:38] 🔌 Additional I/O ports on Asus laptop, better arrangement for cable management.
- [05:55] 🔊 Audio quality: HP laptop speakers mediocre, Asus front-firing speakers much better.
- [07:03] 🦠 Both laptops loaded with bloatware, requiring a fresh Windows install.
- [07:27] 🖥 Display quality: Asus Zephyrus with high-res OLED display outshines HP's lower-quality screen.
- [09:43] 🎮 Gaming performance: Asus dominates HP in performance due to better hardware.
- [10:34] 💾 Upgradeability: Both laptops have limitations, HP has socketed RAM, Asus has soldered RAM.
- [12:04] 💰 Value of expensive gaming laptops is subjective but high-end models offer significant benefits.

dameanvil

So, in 2022 I purchased a Lenovo legion gaming laptop from microcenter. Paid 499.99 US. It has an i5 12450h, an RTX 3050, 2x m.2 slots which made upgrading the storage extremely easy, and 8 gigs of socketed DDR4. For less than 120 additional dollars I added a 1 tb m.2 and upgraded the ram to 32 gigs. It also has a 120hz display. I really enjoy gaming on it. But then I bought an ally back in September of 2023 and I have not turned on my laptop since then.

randy

In my stupid grad school days I moved across an ocean twice with a full ATX gaming desktop taking up half my luggage. I learned from that mistake very quickly and got a budget gaming laptop instead.

Now my job involves sometimes extended international travel, often to the kinds of places where you don't want to be going out and poking around after work. My gaming desktop is great at home, but I still see value in having a powerful machine I can bring with me on the go. It makes the long flights and hotel stays a lot more tolerable. I seriously considered the G14 and a couple of similar smaller high end gaming laptops when I got my last one, but ended up opting for a Lenovo Slim 7i Pro X more tailored to creative professionals. The mobile 3050 was still more than sufficient for my gaming-on-the-go needs while the overall package offered a better value for my specific situation.

Gwenavere

I was pretty impressed how passable the low spec model was.

TheGodOfAllThatWas

I think having a third option right in the middle of the price range would make this comparison series much better

joshuastedford

2200 dollars
For 16gb of ram, and a miss branded 4060... Epic...

Elinzar

I used to travel for work. Having a gaming laptop I could throw in my stuff made the experience a lot more enjoyable. Was it as powerful as my desktop? No. But it didn't have to be. I just wanted to play some light games after I was done for the day. I certainly would like a more premium gaming laptop, but I couldn't justify the expense at the time. Several years on and the laptop struggles quite a bit, but for older games and eSports it's fine. Throw a decent pair of closed back headphones or IEMs in your bag and you barely even hear the jet engine.

That said, I traveled less than 30% of the time. If my travel was 50% and up, I would have likely sold most of my desktops and bought the highest-end gaming laptop I could have, since that would have been my primary system. I think the biggest justifications for a high end laptop are (1) how often are you on the go - classes, work, whatever and (2) how often do you game? If you're never on the go and you never game, obviously don't get a high end gaming laptop. If you travel a little bit or game every once in awhile, spending money on a high end gaming laptop doesn't make sense - buy something cheap for those times when you'll use it (a Steam Deck or similar might make even more sense here than a budget laptop). And same for if you game a lot but never travel - why buy a laptop in the first place? Or the inverse - if you travel a lot but never game, why are you even looking at a gaming laptop unless you need the GPU horsepower for a specific work task? But if you're in the subset of the population that travels a lot and wants to game every chance you get, a high end gaming laptop starts to make a lot of sense

twrex-

What did i even expect coming into this video, OBVIOUSLY THAT EXPENSIVE ONE WILL DEMOLISH THE CHEAP ONE IN EVERY WAY.... Dude is so entertaining i had to watch it

kmadhav

They didn't make the decision to solder the ram. they made the decision to go w/ LPDDR5x over DDR5. LPDDR5x happens to be required to be soldered but comes with many benefits of speed and power consumption over DDR5

briangu

5:35 So I just heard "if you mouse left-handed... probably avoid the premo laptop"

lordofhyphens

A new laptop being sold with a 2050!?

Didn't even see many of those when that chip was contemporary, it almost seemed like a paper launch it is so rare.

lemagreengreen

I think in general there's about an 80 percent chance something is worth the extra money, provided one important caveat. That being "If you actually have the extra money to spend." It's all relative, it's worth it to get the cheaper product, if that's what you can afford, and same for the more expensive.

brando

More interesting would be the cheapest laptop with a certain graphics card vs the most expensive one. For example you can sometimes get a laptop with a RTX 4060 for about 700 bucks, but there are also laptops with a RTX 4060 for over 2000 bucks.

AcopolypseK

Had a Helios 300 with a 1660ti, i7 7700, 144hz screen, 16tb of ram, and 1 tb ssd for $900 back in 2019. Just got a "refurbished" (small scuff on the outside panel) Lenovo Legion 5i with 3070, i7 12700, 16tb of ram, 144hz 1440p screen, and 1tb nvme for $1099.

I_am_ENSanity

To be honest having a 4070ti on the go is freaking AMAZING. I don't know what people have agaisnt laptops but they are worth every penny to me. I use an M1 Max MacBook to record music and bring to studios, film editing etc. and I use my Legion 9i to game. Temps are awesome and thing gets awesome scores on Port Royal and Timespy Ex. Once the 50 series GPUs come out I'll build a stationary PC but when I have long vacations best believe I'm bringing the Legion to do some gaming.

KillswitchRobie