Multiboxing on a Laptop

[mbox_bob]

1. Possibly. Laptops are far more likely to thermal throttle though. Also the CPU is weaker than the desktop counterpart, so YMMV.
2. 10 on 1920x1080. I wouldn't be keen myself. You can always try it on a desktop first. things to remember is that a 17" screen is small these days, and boxing tends to require pixels and realestate (or you just need to really squint). I find 5 or 6 on a Full HD hard.
3. No. Maybe. Depends on whether you really want no interruption. You could end up waiting for the next GFX after that, and then the next CPU, and then the next GPU, and then the next SDD, and then the next memory gen.
4. I've ended up with multiple laptops. If your role supplying the Surface Book limits you so you can't use that during a meeting (presumably for notes or a demo/powerpoint), then I'd be inclined to go work laptop and separate play laptop. I have a reasonable, but not over the top Dell for work (actually using it now too. Actually I have two of them for work, one is the portable one and the other is my work desktop replacement. Then there is the gaming machine. Going through airports is not fun, but other than that it works out. The most annoying thing is keeping a few things in sync that I want to be.

[mrdsp]

1. Possibly. Laptops are far more likely to thermal throttle though. Also the CPU is weaker than the desktop counterpart, so YMMV.
2. 10 on 1920x1080. I wouldn't be keen myself. You can always try it on a desktop first. things to remember is that a 17" screen is small these days, and boxing tends to require pixels and realestate (or you just need to really squint). I find 5 or 6 on a Full HD hard.
3. No. Maybe. Depends on whether you really want no interruption. You could end up waiting for the next GFX after that, and then the next CPU, and then the next GPU, and then the next SDD, and then the next memory gen.
4. I've ended up with multiple laptops. If your role supplying the Surface Book limits you so you can't use that during a meeting (presumably for notes or a demo/powerpoint), then I'd be inclined to go work laptop and separate play laptop. I have a reasonable, but not over the top Dell for work (actually using it now too. Actually I have two of them for work, one is the portable one and the other is my work desktop replacement. Then there is the gaming machine. Going through airports is not fun, but other than that it works out. The most annoying thing is keeping a few things in sync that I want to be.

Thanks for the feedback, shares a lot of my thoughts.

I think the Razer Blade 14 or simalar (Alienware etc) should be OK with the stress, I don't really play with high settings so don't miss much if they are all on GFX quality 1. I have my main toon with max view distance and that's the only deviation from low gfx.

I think even the nVidia 1050 chip and i7 in there will out perform my current desktop by a large margin so even heat throttled should be ok.

So, I've taken your advice and run 10 accounts (not played) on a 13.5" Surface book Pro running - I'm pretty surprised and think it might be doable;

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Might not be as comfortable as running dual screen but beggars can't be choosers if it works right?

Another option would be adding one of these to my purchase and using them for preview, although I'm now concerned about the GFX card!

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My only worry with the 8th Gen i7 is there is apparently a big performance increase on the mobile version, I'm also conscious though Razer is not like the tier 1 vendors and will take time before it adopts the new chipset, especially as their current model is less than a year old.

In realty I have many devices I can use for work so I suppose it can just be a play laptop, not sure about lugging a beast around after previously having an Alienware although admitidley this was a M9750 and in 2007!