For gaming its gotta be a desktop. Laptops are just MUCH more expensive and unnecessary for gaming. They offer way less customization for the parts you'd want, are much pricier, and they get way hotter during intense gaming.
Desktops are customizable, cheaper, have better hardware for the price, made for gaming, does SLI/Crossfire much better, does overclocking better, cpu and gpu cooling better.
If i could only have 1, id pick a laptop. Laptops are not ideal for gaming, but laptops are so convenient for everything else and that takes precedence over gaming to me.
If i could only have 1, id pick a laptop. Laptops are not ideal for gaming, but laptops are so convenient for everything else and that takes precedence over gaming to me.Tykain
Desktop without question. Laptops don't have a decent system for heat dissipation like a desktop does. Not to mention you can upgrade a desktop much more easily.
Desktop. Wins in terms of price for performance and upgradeability. Laptops really only make sense when they're dirt cheap, as throwaway portable computers for e-mail and word processing.
desktop... I have no use for a laptop. If i need to the internet when im gone i just use my phone... IF i want sit on my bed and use bc i just change channels on my t.v and grab my wireless keyboard. . BUT then again When i use my computer i like to sit up right. AND any issues with my hardware if any piece blows i can easy swap it out for half the cost.
DESKTOP. I could never see myself using a laptop. Uncomfortable, not good at playing games, and like some people said, somehow more expensive. Really, I'll take a desktop which only lacks portability any day.
I love my laptop. For college it is definitely much better to have a laptop since you want something portable, and it's also just so much more convenient being able to take it with you wherever you go.
Desktop for gaming. Laptop for coding (hate coding at home). Both for whatever the hell I'm doing on the computer.
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You do coding? What languages do you know? Uh.... Whatever language I need to use at the time. Currently, it's Java and C++ for two projects I'm working on. It was C when I did embedded work and making UNIX tools. PHP and Javascript for the websites I was tasked to build (so glad I'm done with that crap). Those were what I've used outside school (quite a few more inside school but they aren't used much in the real world). If you actually know what you're doing, it takes like two weeks to learn a computer language.
I rarely game on my PC, so laptop is fine by me. I bet a good laptop with Windows 7, a Core i7 processor, and a decently sized hard drive would last me for the next 10 years. :P
I like laptop... desktops are so much better, but it burns too much electric power just for posting on here which Im on right now.Dogswithguns
lolwut? My CPU uses less than 10 watts while browsing, and the input voltage for the GPU is pulling just 0.88 volts. Compare that to 46 watts CPU usage for gaming.
I would choose a desktop for the more powerful operations, like graphics-heavy software. At the moment, I have a laptop that serves as both a my workstation and my gaming pc. It isn't too powerful, but I can do all my work on it and have the room and ability to play some of this gen's games.
[QUOTE="Dogswithguns"]I like laptop... desktops are so much better, but it burns too much electric power just for posting on here which Im on right now.topsemag55
lolwut? My CPU uses less than 10 watts while browsing, and the input voltage for the GPU is pulling just 0.88 volts. Compare that to 46 watts CPU usage for gaming. My desktop has 550watts power supply. my laptop has Im not sure the power supply is but it's very small.
For every day use, laptops are great. Not really much more expensive than their desktop equivalents, with the added bonus of being lightweight and portable.
For specialist purposes (gaming, media production etc.) desktops rule all. Much cheaper, much more powerful, and upgradeable.
If I had to choose one, I'd go for a desktop. Because I play games and do music recording stuff. But I am currently looking at getting a basic lappy for other stuff.
I'm out of my laptop phase and would prefer desktop any time. However, a cheap little laptop or tablet for on the go or moving around the house isn't completely out of the question.
if i put a laptop on a desk.. does that mean its a desktop? Laptops alll the way,i had a PC/Desktop and god forbid that ****. I dont play with KB/M so i could careless about games, i need teh interenets and teh speed. Honestly,hope PCs/Desktops die.
Laptops, always loved them, nice and portable and I couldn't give two craps about gaming on a PC, I have my PS3, PS2, PS1, PSP, Nintendo 64 and Nintendo Wii for all that :)
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