Once again you need to compare what's comparable

(I do it frequently, hate it but it works™)

But then to get back on the topic, if you want to be a bit serious on gaming, laptop is gonna be a hassle and/or price will skyrocket

And I'm not talking about trying to max out everything and anything

Just try to play any random *current year* AAA on high/very high settings on a laptop

It's probably gonna cost you a kidney or two

While at the same time you could be buying a desktop AND a laptop with decent remote control capabilities

Because it's gonna be the "worst" on your performance hit

Sure, if you want to play "only" rimworld, suit yourself

But someone who games regularly will generally not play one single game

And even only those you mentionned

So either you're gonna have to have the power to run 'everything'

Or you're gonna restrict yourself to a selection of older/less demanding games

Medium, yeah, low/very low, nah

Even for medium settings (and decent framerate) you're gonna need a beast (for a laptop)

Even on desktop 1050 is very barely appropriate for 'serious' gaming

Yeah and?

What I'm trying to point out is that the kind of performance you get for those mid/high end laptop could be achieved for a way cheaper pricemark on desktop

+ upgradeability

ikr

The thing is, with the price difference of a gaming desktop vs gaming laptop you could buy yourself a lightweight laptop and remotely do whatever you want on your desktop without that much of a difference in useability

It might have not been possible 5 years+ ago, but nowadays it's very much doable with very little effort

Yeah

I wouldn't say ssh tho because it's kinda not very well made for remote desktop but well

Sure

@Tervy here you go https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JDG8Vdr-77XptjiaUCfSU7gpXBxy4o0l4xryXknD5Ao/edit?usp=sharing

And before you tell me it's only 100 USD cheaper, your laptop have a way better deal than most of the components I chose

And except for the RAM (which is obviously not the most expensive thing in the setting, and only have a 16% rebate), almost everything is full priced

CPU is way better, GPU is a tad lower

That's mainly because I couldn't find a GPU that wasn't disproportionately more powerful and expensive

Also Amazon.com only because I'm very lazy

That + your back but if you're young enough you probably don't care about that (yet)

Also probably couldn't find the best deals ever because I'm not murican so I don't know where the good deals are

Yeah

I have an X270

This thing is fucking great

The only downside is that I don't have the most advanced model (no 2nd battery and no fingerprint reader)

But that's mainly quality of life stuff

For the laptop I assumed you didn't want to include it but yeah since it's 100 USD cheaper (and once again probably more if you lurk for good deals) you can get a difference big enough for a good laptop

Bluetooth and wireless are... well I'll say unecessary but it's mainly my usecase

Though it's probably gonna be around a few tens bucks

And assembly yeah it's gonna be nitpicking here

It's really easy af nowadays

What's the ryzen one?

I mean what CPU do you have with that x200 ?

Yeah, but you're forgetting a lot of stuff if you just stop the comparison here

Here I took it from nothing, like you don't own anything beforehand

If I were to apply that to me or a lot of people I could re-use my case /PSU/ screen and maybe a few other things (SSD and *maybe* ram)

So you could scratch it from the list

So technically you could get better if you compared it for a more lenghty period of time

(because let's be honest, upgrading a laptop is a joke)

To be perfectly honest though

If you want to compare laptop to desktop

In gaming i mean

You should probably compare mid/high end laptop WITHOUT GPU and use an external GPU

Just like a desktop, the case is gonna be costy the first time, but it's gonna be reusable with future generations

And you're gonna get almost desktop performance without killing your components with the heat

(or not that much)

Yeah... but then I imagine a use case where you don't game in a plane/train but in a more "stationary" position

So installing your external GPU is possible

You still have to carry it around, but that's doable

And not *that much* of a hassle

Since it's external it's way less of a pain to manage actually

Yeah... but I still don't feel confident with using them for sensitive datas

I'd rather waste a lot of time and money into upgrading an internal SSD/HDD in a laptop than carry an external drive

But then again, I have a different usecase

If I was in a relationship I think I'd be legit scared to use that tool

But I'm not, so let's try it on my female colleagues

Might have to test Samsung's warranty program as one of my 850 evo partly died 3 days ago

Couldn't boot, could after 2 reboots, bad sectors reported by some progs but not others (chkdsk and S.M.A.R.T. reports tell me it's fine, acronis true image [that I highly regret not setting up last week when I had time] tells me it can't read some sectors)

What's this?

2 meter wide + 180 kmh

Yeah right, gonna be totally effective

I can't see anyone not seeing it coming and trying to take it down

Except if you're a peasant armed with forks and bows

Actually not the engine

The engine is probably way smaller than its wings

And hitting the wings will make it veer off course very quickly

Sure, if it's 5 meters away you're gonna be in big trouble

Well except if you hit it with very small caliber, those kind of drones aren't made to be very tough

Oh I was thinking of a wider wingspan

Then it's even worse

If you hit the main body you'll probably fuck up the insides

Which will contain the telemetry and communication instrument

You can't really put armor on it

It's a small drone, not a fighter jet

Thick bullet proof glass isn't weightless

Same for the body frame

RC plane don't carry a 2kg payload, nor military grade com equipment

Which is shit if you've been anywhere near military grade equipment in your life

CIWS would be overkill

And not even sure it's gonna pick it up

(might, but not sure)

To me it's just a small gadget that looks good on specs but isn't really a viable option in a real environment

Plus if you need any kind of precision with it (and since it only got a 2 kg payload you're not gonna use it to take down buildings I guess), you'll need some heavy coms in order to not be jammed easily

Finally, let's not forget, it's not about the chinese but about any fucking miltary industries, specs given out are only in ideal conditions

We can guesstimate that it's not gonna be any better than the other drones they announced

Otherwise they would probably brag about it

> not having your sensitive datas and messages in a hidden and encrypted volume

Use veracrypt if you want some plausible deniability