I’ve always liked the idea of playing modern PC games on the go, but for years gaming laptops were a bit of a joke. They were heavy, expensive, guzzled battery, and offered performance that was miles behind a desktop gaming PC despite costing a lot more.
That changed with the introduction of Nvidia’s Pascal GPU architecture, which allowed laptop-grade GeForce GTX 10-series graphics cards to offer performance that was reasonably close to their full-fat desktop brethren. Pascal also enabled powerful gaming hardware to be packaged into machines that wouldn’t break your back carrying them more than a few blocks. And the likes of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 shows that some of the best gaming laptops could be reasonably compact and light.
That’s all very good but one thing that’s taken far too long to change is the overall aesthetic of gaming laptops.
Pretty much until around the last year or so, gaming laptops were festooned with a “gamer” aesthetic. Angular chassis were covered in red accents and logos that in no uncertain terms…
