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Do you like to game?

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Yeah.

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Do you like to game at your house?

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Yes.

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Do you like to game in kind of unusual places?

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Hell yeah.

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Okay, whoa, dude, okay.

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I was kind of thinking like in a hotel or coffee shop,

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but anyway, the point is, if you are gaming on the go,

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you're gonna have to make some kind of sacrifice,

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be it performance, weight, or battery life.

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So today, we're gonna investigate

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which option makes the most sense for mobile gaming,

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Now, there are really three approaches for gaming on the go.

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Huge honking gaming laptop, thinner gaming laptop,

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or thin and light notebook with an external GPU.

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And today's objective is to find out

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which one is the best, objectively, the best option.

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So let's meet our contenders.

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Coming in at a whopping 10.35 pounds,

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this laptop has been described as a shot of adrenaline,

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a big, heavy beast of a laptop, and barely even portable.

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The ASUS G703 is possibly the only mobile, asterisk,

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device on the market that can actually take advantage of Intel's

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Core i9-8950K.

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Some people have even gotten it to do five gigahertz

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on all six of its processing cores.

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And when you combine that with a GTX 1080, 32 gigs of RAM,

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and a RAID 0 NVMe storage array,

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this laptop spanks most people's gaming desktops.

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Then, over on the other end of the spectrum,

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weighing in at a featherweight 2.9 pounds,

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is the Razer Stealth, which is, well, if we're being honest,

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basically useless for serious gaming.

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That is, until we hit it with a GTX 1080

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in an external enclosure via Thunderbolt 3.

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Now it's rocking a quad-core Core i7,

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16 gigs of RAM, NVMe storage, and of course,

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the GTX 1080 that we just duct taped to it,

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helping it kick gaming laptop stereotypes in the balls

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by combining extreme portability

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with extreme gaming performance.

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Also an extremely useful, sometimes, touchscreen.

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Finally, the middleweight in our bout is the Razer Blade 2018.

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At 4.63 pounds, this laptop is on the heftier end

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of what we might call totable,

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but it does have the muscle to make up

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for that junk in the trunk.

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It's got a six-core i7-8750H and a GTX 1070 Max-Q,

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which some might say is the perfect compromise for gamers.

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But then again, some people also love the Olive Garden,

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but, like, you go there and at first you're, like,

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stoked about the unlimited bread,

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but then you get your pasta and it's just, well, basically,

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it's more bread.

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So then, we have designed a few challenges

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for these machines to compete in,

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so without further ado, let's get ready to ride!

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Not allowed to say that because I will get in trouble.

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Now, challenge number one.

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Our three contestants arrive with their laptops

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in their backpacks at some destination,

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let's say the gym.

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Just kidding, these guys.

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Then they need to game, so they gotta get it out and ready

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as quick as possible.

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Ready, set, goldfish!

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I don't care, I'm going.

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Yeah, screw you, Linus.

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All right, so Colton.

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Oh, Colton's got the G703.

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Whoa, that's gonna be a bit of a challenge here.

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The Camara.

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The Camara has a whopping two power cords for him to set up,

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two power bricks for him to figure out how to manage,

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but it does make up for some of that with its massive IO,

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pretty much everything else out of the water.

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It's got Thunderbolt 3.

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It's got USB 3.

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It's got an SD card reader.

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It's got an actual Ethernet port.

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James, meanwhile, is already completely set up.

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The Blade Strike's kind of a middle ground,

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so he's got ample USB.

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He's got no touchscreen, unfortunately, on this machine.

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I'll help you out with that there.

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He's got Thunderbolt 3.

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He's got mini DisplayPort and HDMI,

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along with Thunderbolt 3,

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so he can do multiple displays,

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multiple displays out.

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And Alex, are you set up now?

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Wow, so coming in first is the thin gaming laptop.

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Coming in second, actually,

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is the ultralight with the external GPU enclosure.

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I mean, you do give up some IO, though.

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It's only got two USB ports,

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plus that Thunderbolt port and a headphone jack,

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so yeah, but then again,

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if you're willing to carry this around,

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you do get additional ports,

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including Ethernet over here.

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And coming in dead last, poor Colton.

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Are you even at the desktop yet?

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I'm at the desktop.

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No one can see what you're typing.

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It's pretty clear that the winner here in terms of setup

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is our thinner gaming laptop.

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But now it's time for round two,

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the drag race of the computer world, Cinebench,

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which hopefully Colton will figure out

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how to open at some point.

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Look, we had Riley,

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we had Riley cast for this spot,

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and it just, like, he was busy with TechLink,

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so it just doesn't matter.

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Anyway, on your marks.

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Get set.

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Bench it.

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No, Colton, wrong one.

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Fortunately, you have a super-fast machine,

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so we can just cancel that, run the CPU one,

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and you'll probably still finish before them.

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So you can actually see here,

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Colton's six-core, 12-thread processor

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has already overtaken the Blade Stealth's

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quad-core, eight-thread processor,

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because remember, there's more to it

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than just how many cores and how many threads you have.

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There's how high it'll turbo and how long it'll stay there.

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it's even closing in on the Blade,

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although this one does look like

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it's gonna come in slightly ahead,

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with about 1,000 points.

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Finishing, well, second in time,

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but that's only because of Colton.

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With nearly 1,200 points,

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the Chimera is clearly the fastest machine here

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when it comes to multi-threaded CPU-intensive processes,

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and the Blade Stealth does show some of its weakness,

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because there's only so much cooling,

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and therefore turboing up that you can do in such,

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thin and light chassis.

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There we go, about 530 points.

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So, when it comes to getting serious work done on the road,

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you're pretty much stuck with something at least this class,

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with more serious work being most suitable

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for obviously the most powerful machine.

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Now, it's time for the main event, gaming performance.

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So, let's get Shadow the Tomb Raider fired up here.

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Make sure you guys are all on the high preset.

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And fight!

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Whoa, did Colton get the game launched

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well before everyone else?

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Looks like that RAID 0 NVMe is working out for him over there.

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All right, everyone's set up and good to go?

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Everyone's on high?

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Yeah.

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Everyone's on DirectX 12?

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Go!

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Let's see who manages to load in first.

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Pull out wide so we can see.

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All of them at once.

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Whoa!

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Colton's out ahead with the loading times!

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Followed by, I mean, this is basically what we expected.

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I can't act too surprised right now.

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Now, what's interesting here

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is that even though our Camara has the same GPU,

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a desktop-grade GTX 1080,

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as our Blade Stealth does in its external enclosure,

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the frame rates that it's seeing are significantly higher

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because you're gonna be limited,

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not just by the PCI Express 4X interface

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over Thunderbolt 3 here,

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but also by the fact that the data has to be sent back from

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the core to the display over that same link,

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causing a little bit of bottlenecking.

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Also, this processor doesn't turbo up to five gigahertz

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or whatever.

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So what that means in the real world is that the Blade,

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which also has the benefit of a nice, fast 120 Hertz display

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compared to our Blade Stealth,

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ends up with better real-world FPS at the same resolution,

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even though it has a GTX 1070 Max-Q.

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So that's like a neutered 1070.

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So no real surprises, in short.

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In Shadow of the Tomb Raider,

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or in any of the other games that we ran while we're at it,

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bigger is more badder when it comes to gaming performance.

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But with that said, our Razer Blade Stealth,

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and therefore the Ultrabook category in general,

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is not down for the count yet,

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because our final category is portability.

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As I alluded to before, the G703 has terrible battery life.

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Like, you could put the largest battery

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allowed in it,

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and it would still barely have juice for over an hour.

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As for the Razer Blade, well, it does a bit better,

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but even if you're just watching YouTube videos

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or using Excel,

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you're still looking at around four hours of battery life max,

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not to mention that both of those laptops

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are heavier than I'd like to carry around with me all day.

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The Stealth, on the other hand, is easy to cart around

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and has a battery that lasts over eight hours

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with light to moderate use.

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That is over double the Blade and almost eight times,

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and that's a lot of battery.

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So if you're looking for a laptop that's as heavy

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as you're looking to carry around,

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then you're gonna need more than one.

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I'm gonna go with the G703.

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And this is where things kind of get a little bit tricky.

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So we set out to determine which one

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was the best gaming laptop,

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but you could make a pretty strong argument

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for the clear winner being having a gaming desktop at home

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and a thin and light for when you're traveling.

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With that said, for people that travel a lot

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or are on shift work, or are truckers,

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So for me personally, a big part of me is leaning towards the external GPU because I hate carting around a gaming laptop a lot and probably 80 to 90% of what I use my notebook for is kind of writing scripts on the go.

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So that gives me the flexibility to do what I need to do during the day without running out of battery, but still be able to have the full experience when I'm able to get to a desk.

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With that said, it's just hard to recommend to most people because first, you need a notebook with a Thunderbolt 3 X4 port, then you need to buy an expensive enclosure, then you need to get a GPU knowing that there isn't going to be enough bandwidth over Thunderbolt to take full advantage of it.

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Meaning in the end, you have paid top dollar for a middle-of-the-road gaming experience.

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So for the time being, I'm going to keep rocking this.

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