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You would likely expect
Guru to suggest a hoofing
great gaming laptop here,
right? Wrong as usual, reader:
that’s a dumb and incredibly
expensive idea. A gaming laptop
can be a great thing if you’re
lugging it from place to place, and
there are indeed some absolutely
superb examples out there, but
they’re best used on a desk. That
fits one definition of portable, but
not all of them.
Perhaps you’ve seen Alienware’s
Concept UFO prototype, waved
around at CES to great excitement
(p32). Ignore comparisons to the
Nintendo Switch (they’re about asrelevant as comparing its horizontal
layout to that of the Atari Lynx,
really) and look at the meat of it,
and it seems like a pretty decent
little thing, a promising idea for the
future of portable PC games. You
can’t have one, though. You can’t
even have the neat little GPD Win 2,
which does actually exist, because
stock seems to have run out- expect an announcement and a
Kickstarter for the Win 3 and/or
Win MAX some time very soon.
Basically there’s no good answer
here. So here’s Guru’s slightly out
there suggestion: a cheap tablet
like the Amazon Fire HD 10 (from
£150). Admittedly you’re not going
to be playing PC games on the bus,
but if you’re in network range of
your existing gaming PC, you can
hook up a Bluetooth controller,
sideload the Steam Link app, and
get playing in seconds. Maybe even
grab a controller adapter for
around £7 and clamp it to your
Android handset? Presto: you’re
playing The Witcher III on the toilet.
What’s the best solution for portable PC gaming?
JASON SIMMONS, IPSWICH
There’s no good answer here. So
he re’s Gu r u’s sl i g ht ly out t he re
suggestion: a cheap tablet like
the Amazon Fire HD 10
26 T3 MARCH 2020Horizon
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