Good news! A gaming laptop can finally be your only laptop [Video]

If you remember a time when gamers always had beefy desktop PCs and gaming laptops were a little ridiculous, I have some good news for you: Modern gaming laptops are shockingly thin and light. They get surprisingly long battery life, too.

A gaming laptop can be your only laptop — the machine you take to coffee shops, meeting rooms, classrooms, or wherever else — and it can do it all while providing impressive gaming performance.

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I remember my first gaming laptop, purchased well over a decade ago. It was only technically a laptop — I personally called it a “portable desktop.” It could fit into a bag and go from place to place, but you weren’t ever going to use it on your lap. The battery life wasn’t great, and you wouldn’t want to turn …