Dave2D Says Don't Buy These Laptops

Special guest here today, it is Mr. Dave2D himself, also known as the laptop guy of the internet

I didn't say that. A.K.A. Laptop Expert. Listen, I'm here today to tell you some gaming laptop stuff

Oh boy, I'm excited. You're the perfect guy to have here to tell us what do we need to know about RTX

What should we look out for in gaming laptops? What should we avoid? To sorry to interrupt, this actually feels like I'm on a talk show

Like, is that weird? Well, you are. Not that I've been on one before. It's a show and we're talking

RTX laptops. RTX laptops. Let's hear it. The good. They are powerful as heck

You have a nice looking one here, by the way. Sure. It's a Asus Zephyrus

If I'm not mistaken, that could be the thinnest 17-inch gaming laptop

So the good is that it's, you know, you're packing a lot of power on this thing, right? Which is great

The bad. I want to say like 50% more expensive than I think they should be so last year's devices the 2018

devices were so good so like the 10 series like 1060 1070 1080 with like fast screens 144 Hertz

six core CPUs it just like basically everything that anyone has ever wanted in a gaming laptop they had them last year They were reasonably well and they were good And now they selling these They more powerful but they just so expensive

This is the big issue. Gaming laptop screens are almost all 1080p screens

The problem is that these RTX chips are geared to higher resolution stuff

And you can't even see that. I think NVIDIA is trying to push this whole technology of ray tracing

Like ray trace graphics look really good. And you can do it with these cards. You can do it with these new laptops

but there's just so few games that can support it right is this the case though where the hardware

has to get out there first and then the software might catch up a little bit of both but i think

the bigger issue is that it's difficult to recommend this product to consumers there's no

real reason to buy it right now even though there's a lot of hype yeah around rtx rtx right now

yeah you you really think that people should just be looking at older stuff previous generation not

just that i feel like they should look at older stuff if you're buying a gaming laptop right now

In 2019 you should probably look at older stuff and even if you really want an RTX device

I'd wait the year out wait for like the next generation of RTX to come out because then you'll know are

Are there games out there that are gonna be supporting ray-traced graphics

Is this really gonna be a thing if you buying RTX hardware right now You you betting that the technology is gonna immerse I think it will but it going to be like five years before we see Five years It going to be a long time Like if you running ray traced graphics on this machine you only getting like 60 frames per second

It's decent. Anything less than that, you're not even getting 60 frames per second for ray traced graphics

So how much is a person spending then? Three grand. Three grand. That's where they got to go if they want ray tracing on a laptop

Exactly. These things need to come down in price. It's not there yet. Manufacturers are smart

They know, like they price their stuff in a particular way so that you never feel like you're overspending

Because they're putting that extra money that you've spent on that product on things that the cheaper companies can't do

What should a person be spending on a gaming laptop, in your opinion? I think you start losing value after $1,600

Once you spend like $1,600, $1,700, you're like, that's your best bang for your buck

Like MSI, GS65, $1,700. That's it. I'm not saying that's the one

That's the Dave 2D pick right now. That's A1. If I had to choose, if you can afford it

the MSI GS65 right now has some serious value. Because who has access to a guy like you

To 2D, I mean, they can watch you on YouTube. Everyone's all hyped up about the RTX stuff

and you're saying forget about it. For now if money matters to you right If you have a giant budget and you just want the best of the best sure rtx laptops for days but if you if you care about your money and where you spending it wow it

a better option to go with last year's stuff so it's really it's on the software developers now

and they got to make screens that are higher resolution if i mean if they want to take are there any games on the horizon that are like can we name any games that are there's a couple

anthem is coming out soon battlefield supports it already rtx ray traced that's one game all right

You want to buy a $3,000 laptop for one game. There are a bunch of RTX titles that are coming out

Yeah. Some of them are pretty big. Some of them look good. But it's like, I'd say wait

Wait for the developers to get on board with this Ray Trace stuff before you commit

Because $3,000 is a lot of money. With the keyboard being placed below where it would normally be

They do it for thermals. Yeah, right. They shift it down. And then now all the hot stuff can vent out a lot easier

How's the sound on it? Dece. A lot of gaming laptops have trash speakers though

It's weird. Yeah. How much gaming are you actually doing? A lot

I play a lot of games, Dean. Overwatch SR. I was masters grand masters

Did you come on here just to say that? That's all I wanted to see. I'm done

No, I played it a lot