The PlayStation 5 laptop is a 9.5 pound portable gaming monster, will set you back $2,750

Cutting corners: Gaming laptops already person a bad rep for moving basking and dense successful nan PC community. But a caller portable PlayStation 5 mod from China is truthful chunky that gaming laptops abruptly look sleek successful comparison. Made by a group called BBook AI, this laptop crams Sony's latest console courage into a monolithic 17.3-inch laptop shape factor.

Weighing successful astatine a whopping 9.5 pounds for nan laptop unsocial – positive an further lb for nan powerfulness ceramic – you could practically get a workout conscionable carrying nan "BBook AI Original Edition" around. For comparison, nan PS5 Slim weighs 7.1 pounds, while nan regular PS5 tips nan scales astatine 9.9 pounds.

From astir angles, nan instrumentality resembles a due gaming laptop, provided you tin place its hefty 31.3 mm thickness. Its 3D-printed chassis lends it an industrial, almost ruggedized aesthetic, though it's doubtful nan laptop would past a driblet fixed its important weight.

Under nan hood, you'll find nan complete internals of a PlayStation 5: an 8-core Zen 2 CPU, a 36-compute-unit RDNA 2 GPU, 16GB of GDDR6 RAM, and 825GB of blazing-fast PCIe 4.0 storage. The specs are identical to nan original PS5.

But what's nan point? With nan aforesaid hardware, nan modular PS5 is apt nan much appealing action for astir people. That said, nan BBook AI is much of a passion task geared toward enthusiasts.

The laptop does boast 1 cool and unsocial feature: a built-in 17.3-inch 4K (3840×2160) show pinch 100% DCI-P3 colour coverage, arsenic good arsenic a full-sized keyboard.

There are immoderate trade-offs though. The display's 60Hz refresh complaint is underwhelming for specified a high-end screen. And because nan PS5's internals devour astir 200 watts of power, immoderate applicable artillery would dice successful little than an hour.

So its designers decided to ditch nan thought of a artillery wholly – meaning you person to enactment tethered to a powerfulness outlet to usage nan laptop. Plus, nan instrumentality pumps retired a whopping 71.3 decibels of noise, which is fundamentally successful nan aforesaid convention arsenic a large hairdryer aliases moreover a sports car.

Then there's nan price. At astir $2,750, nan BBook AI seems wildly overpriced compared to simply buying a PS5 and a decent portable monitor. Even if you person that benignant of money to spare, nan creators don't look to person immoderate plans to commercialize their design.

Still, arsenic an eager DIY task repurposing console hardware, you've comberan to respect nan effort.