Hot to connect Steam Machine to a gaming laptop screen?

So with this steam machines coming up, Im wondering if DisplayPort or HDMI lets me connect the steam machine to my laptop, so I dont have to buy another screen. And if so, will it be also possible to use the laptop´s keyboard? Cheers!

 

Unless your notebook has HDMI In, you will need another monitor.

I can't see how you would use the computer's keyboard in any case.

 

Can you recall any laptop with HDMI In? I would have expected that HDMI or Displayport would have been both ways :/

 

HDMI in? Can't say I've run into that - or even a one time use case. Sorry.

I know there were some systems with that capability, but can't recall them atm.

 

Alienware on one or two was about the only maker who offered HDMI in. The 18x is what I recall offered it.

 

Its hard to believe there is no way to "recicle" a laptop screen like that. So it seems that buying an eGPU (when they stop being retardedly bulky) is the only way to max out the gaming capabilities of a gaming laptop.
I was thinking of going back home, connect the laptop to a powerful PC and game. But its not going to happen. For a steam machine i will have to buy the whole package (screen, mouse, webcam & keyboard)

 

Yup! You´re correct. Unfortunately I cant go to work with a laptop like that. Not only because of its weight, but specially the looks :/

 

I only know of the Alienware M17x/17 and M18x/18 having HDMI input.

 

Yes indeed the Alienware M17x R2/R3/R4 and Alienware 17 have HDMI In... Along with Alienware M18x R1/R2 and Alienware 18..

 

Keyboards can super cheap, even brand new. No way in the world would you be gaming on a laptop with the trackpad, so the cost of a mouse doesn't mean anything. I'm not sure what a webcam has to do with gaming, but those can be found super cheap as well. Assuming you don't have a television to plug your steam game system into, or don't want to use one, the only real extra purchase you would have to make is a desktop monitor. Not much more than $100 is going to get you something decent to game on that is going to be better than the vast majority of laptop screens. As a plus, it won't require upgrading in the future should you want to replace the system it is connected to. If you are serious about gaming, even if your system is a laptop, you should probably buy all of those things anyway.

Trying to recycle a laptop screen is possible if you no longer want to use the laptop it came from. You can buy controller boards that basically turn the laptop screen into a desktop display. Some are cheap and some are expensive, and some require more DIY work while others are plug and play. Honestly though, 99% of the time it isn't going to be worth it over just buying a desktop monitor.

 

The reason I was asking this is because portability. The best case scenario would be to do light gaming and work with the laptop, but once I get home, connect a steam machine to the laptop for heavy gaming. I travel a lot, so having the laptop, plus the steam machines plus everything else defeats the purpose.

 

Too many toys...

 

Agreed. So long story short, it seems Alienware has the only HDMI-in to connect steam machines

 

Only way I can think of is Steam's streaming.

 

For portable gaming, your best option is a gaming laptop. If you have a home base and can get by with light gaming while on a trip, your best option is a nice portable laptop and a non-portable gaming machine at home, whether it be a steam box, desktop, or console.

I hope that wasn't in any way an endorsement of such activity!

 

The thing is that my home base moves around every so often So I guess the question is how to make my home base more portable.

About the streaming, though not an awefull idea, I will need at least a screen to set it up (plus mouse, keyboard...). A whole unportable computer.

Ive seen at CES MSI and Alienware are making this docks for graphics card. But jesus, they need more time in the think talk. They seem as big as Micro-ITX computers for just a single graphics card!

 

Well that's where you have SLI laptops.. Don't need all this gimmicks.. too bad AW embraced the BGA junk and junked the AW18... The last 3 ones left are the Clevo P370SM-A which is the true option in my opinion for mobile users or the MSI GT80 with BGA turd CPU... Clevo P570WM3 is probably the beast out of these..

 

I was actually looking forward to the Aorus x5. Also the Razor Blade 2015 seems a nice option (build quality is important to me) but with just one 970m seems it will run obsolete pretty soon.

Edit - Unless a nice looking laptop with HDMI-In comes along

 

965M SLI will hardly be good by the time it comes out.. with the overclocking lock on NVIDIA maxwell GPU's, the life of these laptops will be shortened further..