Released 2025

SurfThing's golf-sim laptop, the only laptop we list: an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 8GB, 32GB of DDR5-5600 and a 2TB NVMe drive, with a 17.3 in 1080p 144 Hz matte screen, Wi-Fi 6 (SurfThing's figure; Indoor Golf Outlet lists Wi-Fi 7), one gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI and two USB-C ports with DisplayPort, Windows 11 Home and a two-year warranty. Indoor Golf Outlet's listing says SurfThing sets up and activates your sim software. The laptop RTX 5070 is a smaller chip than the desktop card of the same name, with 8GB of video memory to the desktop card's 12GB, and how fast it runs depends on the power the laptop gives it, which SurfThing doesn't publish. In Notebookcheck's 3DMark results the card ranges from about 27% above a desktop RTX 3060 in the lowest-powered laptops to level with a desktop RTX 5060 at the median, and about 40% below a desktop RTX 5070. We rate it at the low end. By our rule that a PC sits clearly above each vendor's published minimum, that clears SkyTrak's Windows app, E6 Connect and Awesome Golf. It doesn't clear the RTX 5060 class we hold GSPro builds to, though GSPro's own minimum is an RTX 3060, and it falls short of GSPro at 4K (an RTX 3080), Foresight Premier's medium tier (a desktop RTX 5070 12GB), Uneekor's software, E6 (2026) (12GB of video memory) and Trackman Performance Studio (an RTX 4070 Ti and two 1 Gbit Ethernet ports). The 32GB of memory is not the limit. What it is for is a sim that moves: one machine with its own screen that packs away with a portable net or travels between rooms. Its price is the catch. At $3,699 it is $500 more than SurfThing's own SG3-5702 tower, whose desktop RTX 5070 is far faster, and the Skytech and CyberPowerPC RTX 5060 towers we list clear GSPro too, for about a third of the price.