Just browsing system76’s site and noticed, to my amazement, the serval WS has a desktop processor in it.
I have a single laptop but not as a laptop should be used. It’s sit’s on my desk pretty much permanently because I need a luggable occasionally. Other wise I would really only need a desktop. For work and some games, but mostly work.
I’m under the impression the mobile and desktop cpu performance gap is closing, am I wrong? Is it worth it to consider a laptop like that one for those times I do need everything in a luggable form?
I’m not going to get that one, after shipping to the UK it would probably be too dear. But the fact something like that exists has me very interested and wondering who else makes machines like that.
Linus did a review on the Sager NP9773 notebook not long ago which also has a desktop processor, the i7-4790k to be exact so it looks like having desktop CPUs in notebooks is a thing now.
Proper desktops are always going to be much faster than laptops. The current situation though is that mainstream desktop CPUs are very lousy in performance, they can put those in laptops without much trouble as they're rather low TDP. Better battery tech today allows for higher TDP cpus, its not really practical to do so but eh.
High end desktop cpus are the 2011 Xeons, like the E5 v2699 which eats up everything mainstream by more than a factor of two.
Those Xeons are way more than what I need out of a personal desktop.
If I am just a main stream consumer that makes the laptop form factor interesting. Thinking of it as a result of intel working on reducing TDP across the board does make the whole idea of a desktop cpu in a laptop a lot less exciting and I've avoided impulse buys I would have regretted.
Most people don't need more than a 35w TDP mobile chip, most people than need more than that play games, but the issue then is the CPU isn't the most powerhungry part in a gaming system, "cough 295x cough titan".
