Today I want to talk about gaming on notebooks. Many people believe that notebooks are as fast as desktops and they are wrong. Let me explain why.

Power consumption

High end components like CPU, Video card consume a lot of power. High-end CPU and high-end video card can draw 300W-500W of power on high load. As result just for these 2 components you need at least 400W-600W power supply. These kind of power supplies actually not that compact, and it will be really hard to put in compact notebook case. Also, such power supply will be too heavy for notebook.

Cooling

Most of electricity consumed by electronic device will be converted to heat. Normally desktop CPU has 75C-80C on high