For the longest time I was of the belief that gaming on a laptop would never come close to paralleling the experience had on a traditional desktop
Welcome to episode 275 of Heroes of Handheld! This week, we discuss: Jedi: Fallen Order The upcoming Pokemon Direct CES 2020 and the Alienware Switch lookalike The Nintendo Switch Pro incoming?
Sorry to hurt your Nintendo blind fan feelings ,but Nintendo actually stole the Switch's design from the Wikipad and other Handhelds and Android controller grips.
The Alienware Concept UFO stuffs a Windows 10 PC into an amazingly portable package
It’s far from a Switch killer. People will always buy Nintendo based on brand loyalty and for their amazing exclusives.
I agree!
"super premium" is not tech specs. They have no exclusive games they are going to have to at least have SUPER TECH! And they will still not touch SWITCH.
except when they get that switch emulator running on it. Then that thing could be wicked
It would make it better than the Switch, but people still wouldn't buy it as much as the switch simply because of brand power and convenience.
One, you still have to buy the game to play it legally on an emulator...and you have to rip the game yourself.
Two, there is no Switch emulator at this point in time...JS
And you think this little thing have enough juice to fully emulate a Switch game?
Maybe you should wake up.
“ I don’t know it’s not out yet.”
Why do you need to wait until it is out in order to realize that if a big desktop-sized PC struggle to emulate the Switch, then how can a tablet-sized PC like this one able to achieve that?
@comic
Yuzu is experimental and most games either will not boot, or they run like garbage. Why even bother naming it when it runs would run worse than supporting the devs for their hard work?
Sounds like you are just looking for ways to claim you do not need a Switch to play major Switch games...but a quick google search will just out you quicker than you can type a response.
@Shiken
Actually majority of the switch’s mayor games are playable on the Wii U.
@2pacalypsenow
That is false. I assure you that games like Mario Odyssey, Link's Awakening remake, Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Astral Chain, Pokemon Sw/Sh, Smash Ultimate, BotW2 (coming soon), Splatoon 2, Xenonlade 2, Xenoblade Torna, etc etc etc are not playable on WiiU.
Just because the WiiU has lost its value to most of their under appreciated games getting a second chance on Switch, that does not mean that Switch is not still pumping out its own exclusives at an even greater number as well.
But like I said...downplay...and we all know you do a lot of it lol.
"Switch Killer" lol
People buy the switch for Nintendo's exclusives, so unless they can suddenly hault Nintendo from making games it's really not even gonna affect the Switch in the least. That said the product does look dope an i'd love to get one for emulation aswell as PC games.
lol when someone says its a "(insert game/device) killer" it will always end in failure
That is what I call a sensationalist title.
The UFO is not even a real product, let alone a Switch killer.... It's just a concept, one of many that Dell has brought to the CES 2020. It might eventually go into production if they find a market for it. But as many other concepts it might as well just stay a concept.
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I already played games at mostly maxed settings on my Alienware m15x for the past yr and half.
My setup:
M15x
i7 740qm pretty decent with most games
8gb ram 1333mhz
Ati 5850m initially, switched to gtx 460m 1.5gb vram
500gb hd switching to 250gb ssd soon
Can play almost every game maxed out at 720p and looks stunning as the screen is 15inch so not much stretching and stuff looks good in it. Can play many games on 1080p again maxed out but some like bf3 wont hit the 60fps mark maybe around 38-40 or so which is playable but I do have a thing for 60fps so I keep it at 720p and still have a blast with it looking good n all.
Ive always used desktops and will say it loudly and clearly that desktops will beat laptops anyday but I am glad I got this as I have been able to move it around with ease and do on-location edit/graphics work. Client side work etc
Also great to show off n stuff :D
Well in the end its not just alienware tho I love mine, there are may other brands coming up with same hardware. But interestingly Alienware parts end up having higher Windows experience index scores, really dunno why tho.
I switched out parts of my laptops to test out stuff, ram , off the shelf ati graphics cards etc and the scores dropped from 7.6 to 7.2 for same latency and size rams (crucial, corsair etc) same thing happened with the gpu which dropped from 7.4 to 6.9 O.o
I checked the details of the Alienware/dell parts and they are of some unknown brands made in some secret location in taiwan and korea, weird but powerful shit.
Anyways just like the author mentioned , laptop gaming has come a looong way, good for us on the go ppl. Rest I advise just sit back at home with a powerful desktop setup and big screens and kick some reaper ass.
I know some people just love Alienware but my preference is Sager:
http://sagernotebook.com/in...
I still have a Sager 5720 that works flawlessly (a whopping GeForce Go 7800 GTX in it)....bought it in late 2005 :)
Since then I have went back to desktops, but like pandehz said above me, laptop gaming has come a LONG way.