Need Laptop suggestions as well as 'can it work with my other equipment'?

[pyrius omega]

Hi,

I'm looking at going to a laptop in the future. I need a good idea of what to get and if I need a hub for my stuff.

1. Laptop with thunderbolt ports. I'm looking at a three monitor setup including the laptop. Both are hdmi ...not 4k at this point...but could up grade the monitors.
2. CH throttle pro and a CH Fighterstick pro
3. External sound amplifier. Regular jack plugin. Can fit into the speaker jack on the back of my computer.
4. A Tobii eye tracker 4c
5. Trackir head device
6. External keyboard and mouse
7. HCS voice packs so I do have a dual USB connection headset (Asus Centurion headset).

Is anyone running a Laptop with a lot of equipment and programs running in the background that would support something that I have above. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thank you,
Pyrius

 

[Morbad]

You will want a hub (preferably a fairly serious, powered one) for all your USB devices.

There are scads of solid gaming/workstation laptops with good discrete GPU and at least one thunderbolt port out there. Narrowing down a recommendation will require more information.

 

[MickyG1982]

Well, no point in looking at AMD, as I understand it AMD based lappys don't do thunderbolt.

You would be hard pressed to find a system with more than 1 or 2 thunderbolt ports in any case.

 

[d8veh]

Just in case you don't know, laptops are sometimes not the best solution for this sort of gaming. The problem is heat dissipation. I got one of those fan bases for my mid-range gaming laptop to aid the cooling, but it still overheats playing ED, even with the resolution turned right down, then it crashes out. If you want to play using the laptop's battery as the power source, you can can your playing time in minutes rather than hours. Make sure you research these things properly before choosing a laptop, so that you don't make the same mistake as me. Other games seem to play fine. It's just ED that goes over temperature.

 

[Para Handy]

Hi,

I'm looking at going to a laptop in the future. I need a good idea of what to get and if I need a hub for my stuff.

1. Laptop with thunderbolt ports. I'm looking at a three monitor setup including the laptop. Both are hdmi ...not 4k at this point...but could up grade the monitors.
2. CH throttle pro and a CH Fighterstick pro
3. External sound amplifier. Regular jack plugin. Can fit into the speaker jack on the back of my computer.
4. A Tobii eye tracker 4c
5. Trackir head device
6. External keyboard and mouse
7. HCS voice packs so I do have a dual USB connection headset (Asus Centurion headset).

Is anyone running a Laptop with a lot of equipment and programs running in the background that would support something that I have above. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thank you,
Pyrius

I bought one of these* a few months ago and it happily copes with the above (except tobi, I don't use that). It runs E D very easily but with Oddity, as @d8veh mentions, the heat (read fan noise) is "ON" even just using the lappy's x1080 resolution - using the HDMI or the Thunderbolt to connect to a 4K monitor really warms things up. It has not bailed-out due to temp so far but I won't ask it to drive an external monitor above 60fps. (You can daisy-chain monitors on Thunderbolt- I have not done so though.)

Games other than E D are a breeze - even MSFS runs smooth as silk, it is just the god-awful coding of Oddity that is still a pain.

* https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08BWWG5F4

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So if that can handle "stuff" then you know a sub £1K model can do it, lots out there similar and better. I did stick more RAM in and also a 1TB M2 SSD in adition to the 512GB one it comes with. As mentioned, a USB hub is needed to accommodate the extras, in my case 3xFIPs, CHPro Pedals and a Microsoft Wireless Adapter (for a controller) in addition to 2, 3, 5 and 6 above.