I want a portable desktop (no batterys!)

Are any of the main laptop/desktop people looking at the usage of gaming laptops. A large portion of gamers using mobile solutions are plugged into the wall 99% of the time (like myself and many that i know) mainly due to only getting a short time actually playing a game on battery. My first alienware, 4 or more years ago - the only time i ever really used the battery (and was happy to have one) is when there was a power cut at a freinds house or LAN session and oyu could hear a corus of "AWWWWWW powercut" from the desktop users and a melody of "tehehehe"'s from the latop users.

Why dont manufactoures consider a new line: Portable desktops.

No batterys, no power saving mode, no auto dimming or 5.4k drives - just a fast gaming rig the size of a laptop that is optimised for use on a power outlet. Like a shuttle PC but with a screen. Somthing for the LAN monkeys to dribble over and the office-to-office heavy user can use.

Think this sort of machine will ever be avilable, am i mad man with a mad dream.

question: Would you consider a system like this?

i know i would.

 

[Like a shuttle PC but with a screen.]

I think you underestimate the size of the PC gaming market. It's a very small subset of all computer sales, and people who would find that type of machine useful are an even smaller subset of that group.

I think your best bet in the meantime is to glue a handle onto an iMac.

 

Kind of like the Dell XPS m2010

 

yeah sort of i guess, i spose that it fell on its face with no one wanting it

just think of the awsomeness of a top gaming laptop that doesnt have the aded weight of a battery, all that extra room for cooling etc.

oh well, just thought i would put it out there.

 

This is exactly what I want as well, I thought I was the only one. But as mentioned, this would have an extremely small market and wouldn't really be viable to them. I don't care about battery life at all, I'd have it plugged into an outlet all the time. In fact, I'd like a desktop replacement notebook without a battery and thus extra space for an extra hard drive or video card, etc.

 

Lanning is aging too quickly because of high speed internet. no point in making portable desktops for lanning anymore.

regardless, this is on reason why the DTR was invented: to add vasts amounts of portability to 'desktop-like' powered machines.

 

LANing will always be a ton of fun...not for any technical reason.

 

somtimes freinds go round the others houses, supprise supprise the one sthat dont have laptops to game with have more partys AT their house.

LAN-ing isnt dead.

If i go on holiday or away on busniess i can take the laptop and have more than pay-through-the-nose-to-watch- and boring 9 channels of digital freeview to do

gaming on a train or car isnt a big attraction for me but considering they also tend to have adapters, why the hell not. only time id use batt is walking, and i cant imagine thats safe ;p

 

I completely agree with you!
And the batteries and the energy efficient power-setups are so expensive... If you remove just that, it will be at least $200 cheaper...

 

If money's important, you could always just buy a DTR and sell the battery.

 

Just get a Sager NP9850 and take the battery out. This sounds no different than a high-end gaming laptop to me.

 

Uh, what exactly is DTR?

 

My educated guess would be DeskTop Replacement...

 

Lol nah, battery, 6 cell is like what 50-80$? Im talking about a whole configuration of laptops - like they have super energy efficient power supplies in comparison to a desktop, and thats what makes it more expensive. If you take the whole system out, then the laptop ought to be cheaper.

And then again, if you are willing to go for a desktop replacement, then money in 99% of cases arent a problem... If you just need something for office productivity, you can buy a laptop for around 400$ for cheap, that will do the job.

 

I used to use a Shuttle for gaming. Fit in a backpack quite nicely and harnessed a 15" LCD onto it.

They have limited expansion, but the G-chassis supports one single slot (or dual slot with modification) PCI-Express and one PCI card. Otherwise it is a full fledged PC and very compact.

Right now I use one as my main work PC but it is also gaming capable: Core 2 Duo E6850, HD 4670 (fanless and no PCI-e connector required!), 4GB DDR2, 250GB HDD.

Look for the SG33G5 if you want inexpensive Intel and also check Shuttle's online store for refurbished ones cheap. Despite the 240W power supply, it DOES support pretty much any single slot card that will fit in there.

It was the annoyance of the extra screen and power cables, and the lack of powerful single slot video cards that led me to start using a notebook PC instead for gaming on the go.

I think Desktop Replacement Laptops are your obvious alternative. There are some with 18" and 19" screens that are just beasts and are comprised of some desktop components. The only think you won't get out of this is a desktop GPU because of the form factor, it just won't fit. So you either go with a Shuttle like machine or a powerful semi-portable notebook but are relegated to using a notebook GPU.