10 bombastic laptops that scream ‘I’m a hardcore gamer’

Any laptop with a GPU could be considered a gaming laptop, but it doesn’t start to feel like a “real” gaming laptop until it starts pushing the limits—and I’m not just talking about performance.

Gaming laptops have a reputation for going above and beyond, especially with regard to aesthetics: colorful lights, embellishments, and slick designs that borrow from sci-fi concepts. But all of that is icing on top of the desktop gaming experience in a laptop body.

In the history of over-the-top gaming laptops...