GADGET GURU
JASON SIMMONS, IPSWICH
Q What’s the best solution for portable PC gaming?
A 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 as relevant as comparing its horizontal layout to
