Depends on the situation, but playing any extended gaming sessions generally means you’re plugging the laptop in to get full performance/more than 2hrs of battery life; that’s really not that flexible. I can do the same thing with my itx build, wireless kb/mouse and tv if I ever travel or visit someone.
If you’re a student or you literally travel for business multiple times a week/month you’d have a good argument, otherwise you’re planted in one spot when you’re playing and that’s generally where you live. And in that case a typical person is throwing a lot of money away on worse hardware filled with bloatware they’ll never know better to get rid of.
im only on my 2nd custom built that i built myself. first one lasted 5 years. by no means it was amazing by specs it was a budget build when i was flat broke at the time; worked yes but didn’t have money saved up. i had to buy part by part for some time and i messed up buying the wrong tower as my AIO that was supposed to fit some how didn’t ( i think it did but knowing me and not understand how to build then i tried to top mount it only ).
i just buy super ATX towers, try to keep it clean and then rebuild from there. saves money. sadly my first build i didn’t take care of and tower got such bad shape i had to toss it.
Actually a laptop in the same specs as a desktop is worse and at a higher cost. If you do not plan to move your computer for any reason than it’s far better to buy a desktop. Laptops are only good if you are on the move regularly, and if you really want something that will perform and last than you need to spend so much more because of things like thermals, pumping a laptop to push as hard as a desktop will overheat it and end up shortening the lifespan.
The whole portable argument only works if you need it for something like school or work, if you want to move your PC to a friends house here and there just deal with the whole desktop thing, it’s far better in the long run to have a good case that you can upgrade the inside parts as needed.
My Windows computer was built in 2016. It has a nVidia 1080 card. Graphics aren’t maxed out but they work for me. I know it needs to be updated/rebuilt but I don’t see a reason for a new computer every expansion.
You don’t always need full performance, especially to play games like WoW which are very resource-friendly.
I also find it far more convenient to carry a laptop than a tower, keyboard, and monitor around. Especially when going through airport security for vacationing. There’s something very nice about running a key while sprawled out on a beach.
Gaming laptops have more than enough power these days, but I can’t deal with how they sound like an Airbus A380 taking off when they’re running games. So freaking loud. Also doesn’t feel great knowing the components are running at somewhere in the ballpark of 80-95C, makes me feel like I’m cooking the poor thing alive just by playing a game.
I actually bought a gaming laptop earlier into the GPU drought but returned it, waited out a GPU, and built a tower instead because of the noise and heat.
Well, that depends on how much they’ve paid attention to the cooling in your chassis. On max settings, I’m running at 65-70C in mine. Yeah, you do hear the fans if you actually have it n front of you and not wearing a headset. And you do have to blow it out more frequently than a desktop.
I mean you don’t have to, you can just lower the graphics, or simply upgrade the parts.
Though given it’s 2005 back then, that’s fine if you think you needed a new computer. Today, i don’t honestly recommend doing that since upgrading computer is pretty easy with all the guide videos and such.
Then just buy separate components that are compatible with your computer, like GPU’s. Or lower the graphics to get a higher framerate.
Mate, no offense but for 2022, these system requirements are pretty low still.
Oh… No no nonononono… don’t tell me you’re one of those Console fanboys that think PC is inferior.
Moving to a console isn’t better, infact, it’s worse then your computer because you will lose all the beneifts it comes with PC gaming. Yea the performance is better then whatever old rig you have, but it wouldn’t matter to much as you don’t have any customization to your options from the system’s hardware or ingame options to suit your needs. Options are not a bad thing. A PC will always be a better choice then a console, even if it’s a potato.
If you’re complaining about having to spend money on PC, how come you’re not complaining about having to spend money to get a new console generation every 5 years or so? Like can you add up all the consoles you had to buy over the years and tell me if you still find it cheaper then a PC despite the fact it’s barely backwards compatible or a lot of times are stifled, doesn’t allow you to use any inputs for any games, locked hardware, one marketplace, and hardly to little no mods or addons?..
There really is nothing like touching a 50c laptop keyboard you’re right. In the end you do you.
Personal convenience and or opinion has nothing to do with whether or not a “gaming” laptop is better than a gaming PC. You will always get more for your money, and a better gaming experience with a PC over a laptop dollar for dollar.
Those help but not to the extent I’d like. Really what I’d like in a gaming laptop is something that’s a total chunk like the old Alienware laptops, except instead of using that extra thickness to house more powerful components, it uses the same components you’d find in a “thin” gaming laptop and all that space is used on overkill cooling.
Certainly, that’s a lot better than the temps I was getting on my Zephyrus G15. Still doesn’t touch what my Meshify 2 Compact + NH-D15 tower can do at far lower noise levels though.
I built a mid range for $580 and it does fine playing most games for three years now and likely will for another three.
But that was prior to bitcoin miners causing a flood of sales on gpus that falsely inflated prices. But that’s also been a very recent trend. If people wait for black friday sales and know what they are buying, they can still save a lot on a build and be able to play most things for years. Especially WoW.
On the contrary… they usually have ~1000hrs at 105C… because that’s what the caps are rated for The cooling on a gaming laptop is what will ultimately kill them because components aren’t really intended to be run at rating for their entire lifetime. That’s not even including cracked solder joints from the thermal expansion and contraction which has been a major killer lately. Or electro-migration which is becoming a larger problem as chips get smaller and laptops hotter.
stares at 4-year old gaming laptop that is perfectly capable of running two WoW clients on a 3440x1440 external monitor
Yeah I’ve gotten far more than 1000 hours out of this so I don’t know what you want me to say. Take care of your things and they last a long time I guess?
Then don’t. Upgrading is always done though choice. Not though need.
My last machine was an AMD FX 6300 with ddr3 16 gb of ram, and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 (The cyberpower PC i got came with 2TB of HDD and gtx 950. Also it’s red). If i can want, i can just go back to that and still be fine. I only chosed to upgrade to my current rig simply because i wanted to.
Nobody says this, and i don’t think people necessarily care about power too much when it comes to gaming on a PC. I have an 850 watt PSU and… i’m still waiting on the day where it becomes not enough for my computer to handle it.
And coming from somebody who went from a laptop to a desktop, i will never go back to those. Sorry, but i like my full tower PC with parts i can easily swap anytime i please enough to go back to portability. Even if the darn thing is heavy enough to make it an exercise.
The cooling on a gaming laptop is what will ultimately kill them because components aren’t really intended to be run at rating for their entire lifetime. That’s not even including cracked solder joints from the thermal expansion and contraction which has been a major killer lately. Or electro-migration which is becoming a larger problem as chips get smaller and laptops hotter.