Gaming laptops have long perpetuated the myth that they're designed for 'gaming on the go' but the reality is very different: gaming battery life is generally measured in minutes rather than hours. That means you're unlikely to be spending long thrashing around Baldur's Gate 3 away from a plug socket when your high-end notebook's GPU is sucking all the juice from the battery between dice rolls.
Yet if the manufacturers of gaming laptops trusted their users to the same extent you see in the burgeoning handheld PC market, things could be very different. And maybe even a lot quieter.
