Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why Are Gaming Laptops So Expensive?”.
Three four $ 5,000 gaming laptops have, generally speaking, been more expensive than their non-gaming counterparts for a long time. But why does the upper end of the market feature models that cost this much? You could easily build a higher spec gaming desktop for less money and based on what we’ve seen over the past few years, there isn’t much to make us think that gaming laptops will get significantly cheaper anytime soon. So what gives you might already know that part of the reason these laptops tend to be so expensive is that it takes a significant amount of engineering to take high performance, gpus and CPUs and fit them into the power and thermal envelope of a laptop. Unlike with a desktop you see, laptops only have so much room for cooling and power delivery and developing solutions to make it all fit cost money. But can we dive a little deeper than just it’s hard to make things small? Of course we can. Otherwise. We wouldn’t have made this video as time has gone on and we demand ever faster speeds and ever higher performance. It’S become more and more more difficult to guarantee signal Integrity over the tiny traces that move data between different parts of your computer, instead of say a circuit board or PCB built from four or six layers and 1 oun of copper. You might have an eight layer PCB with 2 ounces of copper in order to prevent too much signal loss, and not only is this more difficult to design and manufacture.
Some of the raw materials have also gotten more expensive. The price of copper, for example, spiked during the pandemic and hasn’t got gotten close to returning to pre-pandemic levels, and there was also a well publicized chip shortage and it’s not like the GPU companies, just lowered prices out of the goodness of their hearts. After the supply situation improved, this also applies to power delivery. Newer Hardware demands more power phases and different, more expensive controllers. The per unit cost difference might only be around a dollar, but when you think about how many components inside of a laptop need, upgraded infrastructure that adds up quickly, guess who gets to pay for all those extra inerts? But these general concepts could also apply equally to desktops. So while they are important for understanding why gaming laptops are so pricey, we’ll tell you about some of the factors that are a bit more laptop specific right after we thank secret lab, while many ergonomic chairs are designed to support the quote.
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For the various parts of the chassis, USB power delivery, ports instead of barrel connectors and nicer displays, with higher refresh rates and resolutions better viewing angles. In contrast and HDR support simply put expectations not just for raw performance, but also integrated, peripherals and fit, and finish have gone up not down, and these expectations touch many parts of the laptop which result in a significantly higher final price. One good way to think of this is that even cheap commodity items, like ethernet switches, have large price differences between models that support gigabit speeds, which have been around a long time and the newer 2.5 GB standard. So if this is the case, think about how the price differences between something like a standard LCD and an OLED display would translate to the price you end up paying for a gaming laptop and, of course, because a laptop is a highly integrated product.
If you put in one piece of higher-end Hardware, there’s a good chance, you’ll need another piece of higher-end Hardware to support it, which means higher costs again, which isn’t necessarily the case with desktop PCS, where you can pick and choose which parts you’re. Okay, with skimping on to save money, obviously, mid-range gaming laptops are still plentiful, but you might end up compromising on something you may not want to and given the way the market is, it doesn’t look like we’ll be in for much price relief at the higher end. In the coming years, and if we’ve completely put you off splurging on a top tier gaming, laptop remember that any home gaming rig can be portable if you’ve got a large enough hand truck thanks for watching guys. If you like this video, you might like our recent video about netbooks.
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