Survey results: What features are most important to you in a gaming notebook?

[Redaktion]

A couple of weeks ago, we asked our readers to tell us about their individual preferences for gaming notebooks in a survey. So what is the perfect gaming notebook? Are there differences between gamers in Asia, Europe and America? Do PC users really think differently to notebook gamers? Here are the answers to all these questions.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Survey-results-What-features-are-most-important-to-you-in-a-gaming-notebook.249242.0.html

[A.P.]

Seems like business-class laptops like Thinkpads are the most preferred ones. Well, I do game on it.

[Cassie Rose]

Could there be percentage charts instead of bars for the different regions? It'd be a little easier to view the different regions like that.

[dm477]

This is some interesting data. Congratulations on a survey well done.

[MattV]

That data seems to come close to what I answered in the survey.

The only difference between the conclusion and my answers is that I don't mind a big and heavy design, since I treat my laptop as an on-the-go desktop or desktop replacement.

Indeed, I much prefer a bigger, because it's a lot easier to put in a 17'' G-Sync monitor, powerful components and a quieter cooling solution in such a case, as well as more potential storage capacity.

[Gary]

Finally... designs like the gigabyte p34g small., powerful.. discrete designed notebooks are being validated by the survey and notebook reviews praising neon lit angular form designs as the essense of gaming as severely misguided.

Its simple really,  if you have an expensive powerful notebook you are generally not a child and your are more than likely also going to use it for seriously demanding work , video, graphics, 3d modelling etc etc.

Hopefully we will never see another Notebookcheck reviewer praising RGB backlites as important criteria in rating a notebook..

[JohnD]

Great job, you discovered hot water! Now go to the manufacturers and tell them that even a 12 years old boy is ashamed to carry around their led-lit, 10 pound, black and red monstrosity!

[Mjoikr]

From the data, I can only suppose that the main reason why manufacturers are offering aggressive and flashy designs for their gaming laptops is some kind of desperate attempt to differentiate their designs from that of their peers ?  Because it is not due to consumer demand!

Someone should forward this survey data to them and inform them that most seem to prefer toned-down designs that are discreet and classy. 

[mihai]

I would love a 14-15" Windows laptop designed around a chassis like the 2011-2012 MacBook Pro 15. It had a simple aluminum design but with space for a big battery and cooling. It had discrete graphics, upgradable components and enough ports. All of that without that much weight. Imagine one of those with the latest and greatest from Intel, a Max-Q NVidia GTX, 1080p or 1440p display, m.2 NVMe  + 2.5" HDD (maybe support for that 5TB Seagate 2.5" 15mm drive so we can get lots of storage on the cheap), Thunderbolt 2 upgraded to Thunderbolt 3 and that's about it. I can hardly think of a better laptop. Do you? Razer came very close with the Blade but still made it too thin and therefore hard to cool, soldered the RAM and dropped support for 2.5" HDDs.

[Vinh]

Wish Thinkpad laptops had a gaming grade Max-Q GPU...

[dthrp]

@mihai:
Gigabyte Aorus. They make some great laptops.

[mld]

Ha ha, the clear "no" to aggressive designs and rgb lighting ;-)
Yeah, people spending big bucks on laptops are not 12 year old anymore. I wonder why many manufacturers have not realized this already. Actually my main criteria for choosing my laptop after price/performance ratio was "the least ugly design".
Make a classy XPS/macbook/surface like powerfull machine with decent pricing and it will sell like hotcakes. You can put a discrete gamer logo if you want a bit of segmentation.

This poll and article was a great idea btw. nice work
 

[DavidX]

All we need is a Macbook Pro or ThinkPad styled gaming machine that is durable, understated, classy and somewhat upgrade-able. 

Pre-pubescent stylings and RGB-lit crap should be reserved for the minority, based on the stats here.

[mihai]

@dthrp

No Aorus laptop is elegant enough. Don't get me wrong, they are great laptops but a bit too flashy for me. Still, they are better looking than most... and design preferences vary from person to person so maybe others will agree with you.

@DavidX

The ThinkPad would be another good chassis. There is talk about a 25th Anniversary Edition. Imagine that with a GTX 1060/1070...

I have an EliteBook because it's elegant, light, came with a 3 year warranty and it's easier to upgrade than a PC. It was way too expensive for what it is but I'm ok with that. In fact I would have happily traded a bit more bulk and money for a powerful GPU. Who wants to shell 1000+ on a laptop with everything soldered on and a 1 year warranty?

[Papa0ur5]

I hope it will not end like "Smartphones market"

Go for more thin, go for pure gadget (wireless charging) and forget the battery and components.

Razer, Gigabyte Aero, Alienware ( not about the design truely but other services)

Manufacturers : Less is More , Make it simple (powerfull AND AFFORDABLE, think volumes of sells ^^ )