What's a good laptop to play AH on these days

[AKIron]

3d Interlude.

If you've never considered how 3D VR works consider this.

I have three monitors. I can spread a game across all three thus increasing the game display resolution to the sum of the three monitors. How is that different to displaying video in VR? A VR headset may have as high a resolution for each of its two mini monitors as a high resolution monitor. So my 3 vs your 2 VR monitors. Yours should be faster right? Probably not. 3D comes with overhead that 2D doesn't. Your VR monitors each have a display with a perspective that is offset based on the difference between the position of your eyes. The PC must calculate that difference each frame and output different images to each VR monitor.

[AKIron]

Got me to thinking, could I run a sim on two monitors with a slight shift in the lateral seat position between the two and add a divider so one eye sees one monitor and the other the other. Would that create a 3D effect?

I feel a youtube video coming on.

Thinking it through. I believe the perspective created by the seat position would have to change if I moved my head.

[Eagler]

Which would you

Check this out on @Newegg:MSI - 15.6" GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU - AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS - 16GB Memory - 1 TB PCIe SSD - Windows 11 Home 64-bit - Gaming Laptop - 144 Hz IPS (Thin A15 B8VF-270US )  https://www.newegg.com/msi-thin-a15-b8vf-270us-15-6-amd-ryzen-9-8945hs-16gb-geforce-rtx-4060-1tb-pcie-black/p/N82E16834156648?tpk=1&item=N82E16834156648

Or

Check this out on @Newegg:MSI - 16" GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU - Intel Core i7-13700HX - 16GB Memory - 1 TB PCIe SSD - Windows 11 Home 64-bit - Gaming Laptop - 144 Hz IPS (Sword 16 HX B13VGKG-665US )  https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16834156651

Would the performance be worth the difference?

Thanks

Eagler

[Bizman]

Knowing that laptop components don't quite reach the performance level of their similarly labeled desktop counterparts, and knowing that the GPU is the most critical part in modern games I'd vote for the 4070 model. The 4070 version is also about a quarter of an inch thicker which hopefully means better cooling. And if you play AH on the monitor the 16:10 ratio gives you 120 pixels more visibility up and down, making following vertical maneuvers that tiny bit easier.

That said, although both rank quite high the critical reviews should be taken seriously. At least you should keep a keen eye on similar symptoms as long as the computer is still under warranty. Then again, the lemons could be made on Mondays.

[AKIron]

I agree with Bizman. Get the most you can afford.

[hazmatt]

I would go with the most you can afford. It's better to cry once then to cry ever time you use it.

Also, keep in mind that the laptop 4070 and the desktop 4070 are not close at all in performance. This is a site that I used to get a ballpark on the benchmarks and it shows that the desktop 4070 scores almost 50% higher then the laptop. I would guess that the desktop 4070 would benchmark closer to a desktop 4060. Just something to keep in mind when buying a gaming laptop.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-4070-Laptop-vs-Nvidia-RTX-4070/m2033663vs4148

[Eagler]

Thanks!

Using this advice I ordered this one for my 66th birthday next month..

https://a.co/d/f8UnmSb

Hoping I can use it when we're out of town at the in-laws and restricted to our starlink connection there.

Thanks for the info!

Eagler

[hazmatt]

Nice! Happy early birthday.

The specs on mine are 3060 10500H with 16GB 1TB SSD. (The laptop version of the 3060 has about the same performance at a desktop 2060)

I would say my system is probably close to the minimum spec to run a Quest 2 VR with decent performance. I'm sure yours will do much better.

[Prayer]

More than enough for AH.