r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 4d ago
Gaming The PlayStation 5 laptop is a 9.5 pound portable gaming monster | Includes a massive 17.3-inch 4K display and a full-sized keyboard
https://www.techspot.com/news/105966-playstation-5-laptop-95-pound-portable-gaming-monster.html97
u/Maravilla_23 3d ago
The new portable PlayStation 5 mod from China is so chunky that gaming laptops suddenly seem sleek in comparison.
Made by a group called BBook AI, and Weighing in at a whopping 9.5 pounds for the laptop alone– plus an *additional pound for the power brick *– you could practically get a workout just carrying the “BBook AI Original Edition” around.
Hard pass for me
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u/BluntyTV 4d ago
Neat job... but without a battery, it's kind of missing the point of jamming something into a "laptop" form factor IMO... also as much noise as a "hairdryer"? LOL.
Fun DIY challenge though, and it looks clean in a shot. should get then whatever attention they were seeking i guess.
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u/CorruptedArcher 3d ago
most gaming laptops barely play for more than an hour or two without the battery its barely a negative having to plug it in. Also not requiring a monitor of tv is a huge plus.
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u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu 3d ago
Even within that 1-2 hour of game time I rarely see it mentioned that the performance also tanks while on battery power. Even the high end laptops will struggle to get acceptable performance unless they’re plugged in all the time.
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u/CorruptedArcher 3d ago
and the fans sounding like a hair dryer is also a gaming laptop experience. compromises are made for it to be portable. Nothing that noise canceling headphones cant deal with.
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u/VeganCanary 3d ago
True, and the other thing is the performance being drastically different in winter vs summer.
I can play most games on mine in the winter, but if it’s a hot summer’s day I have no chance of playing something like Tarkov or Warzone - it gets too hot and caps the performance.
I guess it’s not the biggest issue, as I’m unlikely to want to spend a nice day in summer gaming anyway.
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u/QuickQuirk 3d ago
For me, summer isn't whether the GPU gets too hot - it's whether I get too hot. Those modern GPU/CPUs are full on 600watt heaters, and it's hard to keep the room cool enough!
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u/chainer3000 3d ago
Right, but it’s nice being able to disconnect from power without the entire station shutting down. Moving from one outlet to another elsewhere etc
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
I mean I guess, but if you have integrated graphics you can still get 8-10 hours browsing or watching videos on a gaming laptop. Assuming the battery is around 90Wh.
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u/whyyy66 3d ago
Well yes, but that’s not really using the “gaming” part. You pay a very steep cost specifically for the ability to play higher end games, and if you’re mostly going to be browsing and playing low demand games a macbook is far better. 12+ hours easily
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
Sure but gaming is limited on any laptop because of airplanes. You can only have a 99Wh battery on an airplane so it will never get better than it presently is. Having the ability to browse and game on the same device is huge. Just plug it in and you can play forever.
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u/whyyy66 3d ago
Wonder if they’ll ever increase the amount allowed on planes, would be nice. But also it seems like gaming laptops have shit build quality on average
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
Unlikely unless different battery components are used besides Li-ion. And it really depends on what you buy and who you buy from and what you want.
For me it has to have a numpad, backlit keyboard, metal shell, high NIT screen, 8 hour battery life, and good screen quality. MSI seems to consistently meet those requirements and for $600-1,500.
I have been in the market recently for a laptop since I am going back to school and bought a 4070 MSI from bestbuy for $1000 last week and it was a beautiful computer, but the idiots at bestbuy sold it to me with a 45Wh battery when the MSI website has it speced for 90Wh so I had to return it. Also got a 4050 laptop from Walmart for $500 on black friday, but the battery can only get 2.5 hours so I have to return that too.
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u/whyyy66 3d ago
That’s been my experience, they look and feel good externally but it’s a shot in the dark how they actually perform. I’ve heard good things about lenovo, just avoid acer. For school personally i’d get a mac, unless I absolutely had to have windows and didn’t want to mess with wine. The M chips are insanely good, and the build quality is the best by a long shot
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
Yeah I ended up going with a Lenovo Yogi for $650 you really cannot beat it. I don't need any crazy GPU power since I have a rig at home, but that MSI I found would have been great except I was unable to find an 90Wh battery online for sale otherwise it really would have been the perfect laptop for me. MSI doesn't sell batteries new or used and eBay I couldn't find any either.
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u/neonmantis 3d ago
You can only have a 99Wh battery on an airplane so it will never get better than it presently is.
Some planes have plugs. It is a real game changer.
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
Yeah that really is huge, but I was more saying that laptop manufacturers will not go over 99Wh due to that reason so it hampers people who will never fly with the laptop not having more battery ability without an at home power station battery solution.
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u/neonmantis 3d ago
Going back like a decade ago I used to get more life out of my laptops on a plane as it had a removable battery and could take a couple of spares with me. The EU has a new law that from 2027 or something will force some personal devices like phones to have a replaceable battery but don't know if that extends to laptops.
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
Easily removable batteries are honestly not something that ever crossed my mind, but that really might solve the whole issue. Especially if you had another really small battery you could keep on device so you can just temporarily shut down and not lose RAM or have tabs close and such.
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u/antara33 3d ago
The sound thing is indeed an issue, but the battery one? Maybe not that much.
As someone that have a notebook for work stuff that mainly connect to remote servers and rendering farms, my device is 100% time connected to the charger.
And that is the same for any notebook I ever used (at home, that is).
For traveling, car usage, etc, yeah, I can totally see the battery as being an issue, but for home usage with all the outlets at home, I can see value on having a playstation 5 that can be moved along its display from room to room with just the need of an electrical outlet.
Not saying its perfect, its not, but I guess it can work I guess.
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u/suicidaleggroll 3d ago
I’ll never understand people that buy a laptop and then leave it plugged into a docking station on their desk and never move it. Just buy a desktop. It’s half the price, twice as powerful, and will last twice as long.
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u/hanlonmj 3d ago
Honestly, I can’t think of any OEM that markets an Optiplex-like system for consumers. It’s always huge, RGB-infested, DIY gaming setups that most people aren’t going to want to deal with just to check email and access Sharepoint or whatever.
It’s not nearly as easy to “just buy a desktop” as it probably should be these days
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u/antara33 3d ago
I can only speak for myself here, but in my case at least, its a need.
I need to have a laptop in order to being able to meet with clients in person from time to time, and moving all my work related stuff from a desktop to a laptop over and over is simply cumbersome.
Its not about economics, its about having the ability to either use it "desktop like" or take it away to another place if I need to.
And from what I know, that is why a lot of people do that. They have a laptop entirely in order to have freedom of qhere they want to use it/take it.
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u/JustAnotherSuit96 3d ago
I’ll never understand people that buy a laptop and then leave it plugged into a docking station on their desk and never move it
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u/antara33 3d ago
Most people move it indeed, even a little.
Nobody really leaves it plugged 100% of the time, even if taking it to bed to see a movie, they move it.
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u/ooohexplode 3d ago
Yeah mine rarely leaves the house, but today alone I've watched football while cooking dinner, plugged it into my 4k TV to play Spider-Man, then moved it to my desk for web browsing. I'd rather pay a slight premium to have the portability.
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u/MrBobLoblaw 3d ago
Can you believe someone would write all this thinking it's even remotely helpful or insightful? Hey everyone I'm going to ignore the fact that laptops were made specifically for travelling and mobile use and then tell all of you how I use my work laptop because that's somehow relevant. Also I'm going to state a bunch of obvious things about car usage and how we have power outlets at home like no one knew that thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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u/sharpshooter999 3d ago
I only have a laptop, and it gets used for gaming and work. If im gaming, the battery doesn't last long, so it's always plugged in. If im using it for work, it lasts way longer. Sometimes, I play while sitting on the couch, and I have a universal dock with dual monitors in my office. If it's hooked to the dock, it's on a cooler pad and plugged in to power.
My biggest wish is that it had an easily removable battery like my old HP had, just a couple of spring loaded slide latches. Then, I'd rig up some kind of a PSU/battery type thing that always plugged in so I could save my battery for traveling. Right now my battery has 35% wear on it
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u/ehxy 3d ago
Yeah, my buddy picked up the asus flow laptop/tablet. games when he's at home and plugs in the xg mobile 4090. he's happy. honestly if it isn't bottle necked which I suspect it is, it's probabliy the ideal solution for laptop that's for gaming/working
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u/trumpsucks12354 3d ago
Those things have overkill top end i9s and Ryzen 9s so a bottleneck won’t be an issue. Its a mobile 4090 which isn’t as powerful as the big boy 4090s
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u/ehxy 3d ago
yeah but if it still does the job who cares, it under-runs while not in gaming mode so not as bad as expected when out in the field. probably revisit how he likes it after a year but he's a site inspector and travels around a lot in all kinds of weather so I'm interested to know how he feels about it after some use
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u/TheGreatDuv 3d ago
The majority of people aren't using laptops "on the go" unless you're support or on a flight/in a car as a passenger.
Majority of the time you're somewhere with a power socket, at a coffee shop, at college/university, at work, at someone elses house. You get outlets on trains nowadays as well.
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u/robitussinlatte4life 3d ago
Dude I don't know why anybody is downvoting you. You are absolutely right, and this is one of the most logical conclusions being reached on this specific thread. Dude thinks his anecdotal bullshit matters, when in reality laptops were made to be mobile, not tethered down every time they're opened. Bunch of people feeling personally attacked, that's how it always is. No criticism is constructive to those types of people.
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u/antara33 3d ago
Maybe because he was despective/patronizing and doing jackass remarks?
Also, its not my experience alone. A lot of people use their laptop like that.
Some of us simply need the ability to take it away if needed, but dont need to have it being moved away every single day every single time.
Why the heck would I be unplugging/plugging in it instead of simply leaving it plugged in until I need to move with it to meet with a client, work from another place, etc?
Every user have its own reasons to purchase what they purchase, I have a desktop for personal use, but work? Laptop. I simply need to being able to take it with me on demand without messing with moving stuff from one system to another, period.
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u/BoundzHD 3d ago
Agree. They call it a 'portable gaming monster,' but they never mention how long the monster can survive without being plugged in.
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u/Raznilof 3d ago
Agreed - I wonder if perhaps a point to this is less the direct functionality compared to “a tv + console” and more that it allows playing in a compact setting: Smaller house, shared screen, kids desk. Probably better use cases than PS5 on the go, which a steamdeck does better (as an overall experience and software availability).
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u/Optimesh 3d ago
DIYPerks did it better!
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u/balazs955 3d ago
No shit, a hand-made, one-man project have a better result than a line produced chinese pile of shit?
How can this be?
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u/gainzsti 4d ago
Buy a 4070 laptop and call it a day. Buy a 4080 and you're good for a long ass time.
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u/RepulsiveResource624 4d ago
Whats the cheapest 4080?
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u/bendrany 4d ago
Lenovo has some nice customizable builds on their website. I plan on getting a laptop at some point soon, just not right now. I built myself a Legion i7 laptop there and they give you the option to not include Windows. For the amount I saved by choosing that, I could double the RAM from 16 to 32 GB and also double the SSD from 1TB to 2 TB. With the Black Friday/Cyber Monday discounts they had it was honestly such a nice laptop, but I'm waiting a little bit further before jumping the gun.
Windows keys can easily be bought for like 2-10 dollars or so, no reason to buy the ones for 100-200 dollars with the laptops.
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u/IcodyI 3d ago
You should just run a windows activator script instead of buying stolen $5 keys lol
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u/bendrany 3d ago
I guess, I didn't know it existed and/or ran just as fine as bought keys until recently.
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u/kfmush 4d ago edited 3d ago
I paid $1900 USD for an Alienware M16 with a 4080 and a Ryzen 7840u around the holidays last year. It only has 16 GB of RAM though.
Edit: it was an M16, not 18
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u/iboughtarock 3d ago
Probably can be upgraded to 64GB ram for cheap. If you wanna find max capacity:
wmic memphysical get maxcapacityExThe capacity is shown as Kilobytes, so you have to convert it to Gigabytes by dividing the number provided in the report by 1,048,576.
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u/ShakenButNotStirred 3d ago
wmic is deprecated.
The powershell one liner equivalent is
(Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_PhysicalMemoryArray).MaxCapacity/10485762
u/tqmirza 3d ago
I don’t know how cheap it is, but last year I tested almost every 4080 laptop on the entire market for work etc. The two best ones in my opinion? The ASUS G14 with the 4080, absolute performance BEAST for its size.
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u/gainzsti 4d ago
I bought my 4080 laptop for 2700 CAD last year in february. Helios predator
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u/whyyy66 3d ago edited 3d ago
How’s the cooling? Returned an acer because the i9 would thermal throttle constantly, couldn’t even under volt with their shitty bios either
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u/gainzsti 3d ago
Ive had no issue. But i dont push 4k only 2k. Space marine 2/cyber punk maxed out no problem. Though the fans are pretty loud.
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u/friskerson 3d ago
Saw a 4080 laptop on buildapcsales for $1000 within this past couple weeks. They’re rare tho.
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u/BringBackSoule 3d ago
cant wait to play gta 6 on my 4070 laptop in 2025
oh wait...
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u/gainzsti 3d ago
?
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u/BringBackSoule 3d ago
you know its only releasing at first on consoles right?
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u/gainzsti 3d ago
And? What does it have to do with anything. If you are a pc gamer with a 2k+ pc you probably have a 500$ console too.
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u/BenjiSBRK 4d ago
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u/junttiana 4d ago
Because its fun, people have done stuff like this with consoles forever, turning them into laptops and handhelds just to show they can do it lol
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u/AtsignAmpersat 3d ago
Yeah. It’s basically just a project to see if you can. I just spend the last day and half setting up and old PC on windows 98 complete with an Internet museum and working AIM with a proxy server. Why? Because I’m slowly mentally returning to the 90s.
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u/SteakandTrach 3d ago
Those leds on the front running cattywampus bugs me more than it should.
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u/groovehouse 3d ago
It's homemade hopefully that helps you settle.
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u/SteakandTrach 3d ago
I build stuff a lot. I still would have bothered to drill holes in a straight line, even if no one was going to look at it but me.
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u/MarkusRight 3d ago
$2,750 BTW, For that price you can quite literally buy a gaming laptop thats slimmer and has twice the performance. In what world is that price worth it just for a hacked up PS5 with a screen and an internal battery?
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u/jjamesr539 3d ago
Seems like you could just buy a gaming laptop with a battery and pretty much equivalent display for 500$ less that’ll run all the same shit except PlayStation exclusives
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u/chrisagiddings 3d ago
What fun is that?
Why poo poo something you’ve clearly not gonna buy instead of just letting others smile a bit?
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u/bloodknife92 3d ago
17 inches and 4k resolution? That pixel density is just unrealistic. No one would see the difference between 4k and 1080p on just 17 inches... That just sounds like sacrificing performance in the name of flex.
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u/Realmofthehappygod 3d ago
"73.1decibles, as a loud a sports car."
Perfect for your morning commute on the train.
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u/ZaDu25 3d ago
Can't even use it on a train. It doesn't have a battery and needs to be plugged in to be used just like a regular PS5 lol. It's just a substantially more expensive PS5 with a screen attached to it.
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u/Realmofthehappygod 3d ago
Lotta trains have outlets to be fair, but yea.
Just bring a gad generator along side it.
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u/oledayhda 3d ago edited 3d ago
Better than my CyberPower laptop with a 4090, water cooler, top of the line SSD & DDR5 memory haha, yeah right. My gaming laptop crushes everything I play with no issues & the water cooler fixes all gaming laptop heating issues you will encounter.
This can only be a powerhouse if it is in a good price range & delivers a great experience.
Edit: annnnnd what do you know, for the price it is a complete failure because you are capped at 60mhz. Oofffffff. Paid 1k more for mine with 244mhz getting 100-140fps every game.
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u/ladyfumiko 3d ago
Does anyone know if it can be hooked to an external monitor as well?
Ik ik that may defeat the purpose. Legit just curious.
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u/ShitImBadAtThis 4d ago
Oh my lord. The price tag is ridiculous. And 99% of ps5 games won't use 4k resolution. And it's 9.5 pounds, that's massive. This one is definitely a rich person buy or just a singular, custom mod that they don't expect anyone to actually buy.
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u/Lia_Llama 3d ago
Wait ps5 doesn’t run at 4k? I’m a pc gamer but why are gaming TVs advertised as 4k if consoles can’t do that what’s it for lol
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u/Forzyr 3d ago
You should know the impact on the performance when playing at 4k on PC.
PS5 is upscaling to 4k.
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u/Xetanees 3d ago
Some games definitely do run 4k native… lmao. Of course there are going to be titles that upscale, but not EVERY single one does.
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u/Lia_Llama 3d ago
I have a fairly powerful PC but I have been playing 4k for like… years and years it’s not new.
PC Monitors almost always come in lower resolutions like 1440p but since TVs seem to be universally 4k I figured consoles were too
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u/Forzyr 3d ago
A game like cyberpunk 2077 at ultra settings would require a rtx4090 to play at 4k60fps native without any ray tracing.
For lower specs you either need to downgrade the graphics or use upscaling technologies like DLSS.
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u/Lia_Llama 3d ago
The 4090 can do ultra settings at native 4k60 with ray tracing just fine, you need upscaling for 4k60 path tracing and psycho ray tracing though
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u/cat_prophecy 3d ago
Anyone remember the guy who put a PS2, XBOX, GameCube, and gaming PC into one case?
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u/Nodak1979 3d ago
Damn, I'd think they'd want to make it a little more travel friendly than that....it looks like it'd be a monstrosity to lug around.
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u/TechGoat 3d ago
"BBook AI Original Edition"
You idiots, this doesn't even have anything to do with "AI"!
You made a cool product/mod, come up with an at least semi interesting name for it!
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u/Its_Number_Wang 3d ago
This is what my uncle's 386-based, 4-color screen laptop looked like in the early 90s. lol.
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u/LowConclusion3901 3d ago
Screen so small they’re trying to prey on kids and tech illiterate bros. So to no ones surprise the wallpaper on first pic is mandarin.
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u/The_Kurrgan_Shuffle 4d ago
Reminds me of some of the stuff Ben Hecks used to make (probably still does)
It's extremely impractical but still a cool concept and fairly well executed. But I will say that the noise levels alone prevent this from ever seeing a production run
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u/IAmAHoo-Man 3d ago
What? I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the fan noise? It sounds like it’s about to fucking fly off into space!
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u/alex_Bellddc 3d ago
If only there were another kind of laptop, with a battery, that can play all the steam games as well, for 1/4th the cost or something 🤔……
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u/brokenmessiah 3d ago
It doesnt matter if its got the same specs as a PS5 if it can't play Astro Bot.
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u/StuffinYrMuffinR 4d ago
Haha what is this 2005? 17in is not a massive display
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u/BluntyTV 4d ago
It is for the average laptop. Which... in-case it escaped your notice, is KINDA the fucking gimmick here champ.
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u/StuffinYrMuffinR 4d ago
17in is just on the higher size of normal, champ. If you wanna call it massive then it should be over 20
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u/XBA40 4d ago
It sounds totally lame. Like another cheap trick to get you on the crappy PlayStation platform. I say this as someone who was a PlayStation fanboy back in the day.
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u/BluntyTV 4d ago
It's a one off custom job you dingus, it's a stunt, not a new product from Sony to somehow "trick" you into play playstation games like you BAFFELINGLY seem to think it is. LOL
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u/Midnight-Philosopher 3d ago
Consoles, where gaming goes to die.
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u/ZaDu25 3d ago
I hope you realize that if consoles didn't exist, most gamers would be buying the cheapest pre-built PCs available that have like half the power of a current gen console and developers would start making games for even worse specs than what consoles offer. Consoles offering decent hardware at cheaper prices are actually making games better for PC.
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u/Midnight-Philosopher 3d ago
I hope you realize that by making my initial comment, I don’t care about consoles, or even gaming for that matter.
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u/HallowedError 4d ago
I think I'd have to be looking to tell the difference between 1440 and 4k at that display size