>>352038595
as someone who owned a laptop when i got an index, no, you CANNOT use the valve index with a laptop. full stop. 

the only way you can is with an external GPU

this is because the index requires a DIRECT displayport connection to the GPU. laptops do not expose any GPU ports, it all goes through the motherboard first. even if you got an adapter, it wouldn't work. 

have fun buying a $300 external GPU enclosure + a GPU. might as well pull your finger out and go for a full desktop build. you already dropped $1000 on the index, you gotta go the whole way.