Why gaming laptops?

[jesskit]

Another reason I think a gaming laptop is great is because I love RPG's. While yes I do play mmos wih persistent characters and worlds many single player rpg's dont have this. Case in point, until I got my new laptop I wouldnt buy DA:O because my old one wouldnt play it and I didnt want to have multiple characters on the go (well i do have that but I can play them whenever, not this is my laptop one this is my desktop one). Say Im at uni, i can get a few quests in. Im at a friends place few quests in. Say i want to watch tv while im playing, guess what, i can take my laptop to my couch and play.

 

[AlphaEcho]

My lap top was 100 dollars and I can play pretty much anything on maxed graphics. So... yeah.

 

[MysticToast]

too many Macbook-wielding hipsters.

Wouldn't that be the perfect reason to whip out a gaming laptop?

 

[reckoner09]

I travel a lot. I'm away more often than I'm at home. I need a good laptop for work and I love to play games so spending the extra $$ for a gaming laptop was an easy choice!

 

[Private Custard]

I can see why people would want a gaming laptop. But for me, no.

I'll just keep my massive fucking HAF X in my room, just like I used to with my consoles (although when I threw small objects at my consoles, they never went into orbit around them!).

Then, for my next trick, I'll do something amazing..........I'll survive for a couple of hours on a journey without needing to game!

 

[Azaez]

I bought a gaming laptop because I joined the Navy, in doing so its little and can be stored in my bunk. Also its powerful to play all games, I play Crysis 2 on all the highest settings. I never have a problem with heat, and always have a outlet for power. Besides dont all computers in consoles need power? I can play a good 3 hours of a game before I even have to worry about power, yet a desktop sits in a corner and goes now where.

 

[Blazingdragoon04]

But those laptops suck for gaming. My HP that I bought a year or two ago can't play any games made in the last five years (except DA:O for some reason).

I am begging to question if you actually are reading my posts. A (reasonable) ultraportable is anywhere between $200 and $400 and is only meant to work-related tasks. You can then build a good gaming desktop for around $700 which is meant for games. You would have a gaming computer with none of the laptops drawbacks, and you would have a laptop. If you tell me you don't have the money for that, then you don't have the money for a gaming laptop.

It's pretty easy to see that the numbers that you are getting, 700 dollars for a gaming desktop, is based ENTIRELY around building the computer yourself, though you never once mention it. Great gaming laptops that come pre-built with everything included do not cost 700 dollars. They cost 1000-1100 dollars, and that is not even including the operating system.

You're 700 dollar price implies quite a few things; that people would WANT to put the computer together themselves, that people DON'T have to spend the 150 on a new OS, and that people DO know where to find reliable cheap parts AND be able to compare things like video cards, ram, and all the other technical know how that goes into making a computer.

Me, I prefer to put a little extra scratch down and get a nice all in one gaming/work laptop that I can bring anywhere and, with great care, will last me as long as my last computer, 6 years.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

When I bought a gaming laptop, I was in the Army and it was simply more convenient to carry around a laptop than a desktop for the purpose

 

[Zakarath]

Well, I've been using my school laptop for gaming, and it's video is good enough to handle most of what I throw at it (Mobility FireGL V5700), although it has been running into a little trouble with overheating this summer (And it is getting a little dated)... But I'm now getting a gaming desktop (Hurry up, Newegg :/), too so it works out.

 

[Twilight_guy]

They like the mobility. Its not an issues of practicality its an issue of wanting to move it.
Don't question the illogical nature of it, just roll with it. (It's like asking why people don't like minor dents in their cars).

 

[ResonanceSD]

I always found that getting a regular laptop and a gaming desktop to be too expensive compared to just getting a gaming laptop.

I'm also pretty picky when it comes to speed so a regular laptop isn't going to cut it for me even when I'm just doing word processing etc for school/uni. I want something high quality. Also, for me, a gaming laptop isn't a laptop that can play games at full graphics, just a laptop that can play any game out there at the time at around medium settings.

Also, being in Australia, I find the prices are lot worse than other countries so that may be why buying a regular laptop (which to me isn't fast enough anyway) and a gaming desktop is just as expensive than buying a powerful laptop that can act as both. I just don't have the money to buy a gaming desktop on top of getting a laptop that is powerful enough to suit my wants.

Work laptops are usually too low quality for me and they slow down way to fast for my liking even when doing basic tasks. It just gets annoying.

I built my own PC, in Sydney. It's top of the line and not as expensive as you might think.

Also, a "gaming" anything, is "something that was designed to play games almost exclusively" not "can run games".

That's why you don't see Dell selling XPS GAMING laptops.

 

[Jake Lewis Clayton]

But those laptops suck for gaming. My HP that I bought a year or two ago can't play any games made in the last five years (except DA:O for some reason).

I am begging to question if you actually are reading my posts. A (reasonable) ultraportable is anywhere between $200 and $400 and is only meant to work-related tasks. You can then build a good gaming desktop for around $700 which is meant for games. You would have a gaming computer with none of the laptops drawbacks, and you would have a laptop. If you tell me you don't have the money for that, then you don't have the money for a gaming laptop.

Your missing the points of most of the people, who are replying, but seem to be insistant on answering this one guy so i'll quote you and hopefully get your attention.


I bourght quite an expensive laptop about a year and 11 months ago, still plays 99% of games and i can go out of town (to girlfriends who lives about 20 miles away) and still play games.

Thats the point, games on the move.

I can't play games on a rubbish laptop, and i can't play games on a desktop which would be 20 miles away.

 

[AdumbroDeus]

Because the vast majority of my single-player gaming and a fair part of my multiplayer gaming happens away from home. Home is where I sleep, little else.


A powerful desktop would do me diddly squat.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I used to have this same mentality but I considered it worth the cost just because there are many times during the day(like during down time at work) where I like being able to play a game. I don't want to lug my desktop around with me so this works fine.

 

[zehydra]

I have a gaming laptop that's 2 years old.

I still get max fps on all my games and the thing runs like a charm. It used to overheat, but I fixed that. Just dust on the filter.

Even though it's got lousy battery life, Being plugged into the wall is a decent tradeoff for being able to take it places without needing to load into the back of a car.

 

[Beliyal]

I don't have a gaming laptop, because those things are way too expensive for me, but I have a laptop. Not really designed for gaming, but I play all games on it and it runs perfectly. I have yet to see how it'll run next year's games, but I've been running the games from the last year and this year on maximized graphic settings and without problems. Asus makes some really great laptops, even if they're not specifically for gaming. I had one before, and it endured all kinds of torture for 4-5 years, but then ran out of space and was too old really, for my needs at least. I got a new one last year and I expect it'll last about as much as the previous one. The old one still works perfectly fine though, will soon have 6 years and it's been cleaned and had the operative system reinstalled, so I could use it for everything, but gaming, some more. And the new one will, I suppose and hope, have a similar life, maybe a bit more endurable gaming wise.

And why a laptop? Well, I'm a student (I bet you got a lot of answers like this). I move from my birth town to my college town all the time and a desktop is really impractical. I also love laptops because I can move them around, make myself comfortable wherever I want and so on. Also, I'm going skiing every year and I can carry it with me to have something to do in the hotel. It's practical and suits my needs and if I had the money, I'd get a good gaming laptop. Not that there's something wrong with this one, but still. I saw some really great Asus' gaming laptops, but they cost a fortune (and yes, I'm an Asus fangirl).

 

[DarthScorpio11]

Maybe these people are in college and don't want to have to lug an entire desktop + monitor out of storage every year.
<---- Is a college sophomore and wants desperately to own a gaming laptop, but has nowhere near the funds.

ummm...why not. I'm in college, and have grant money. I had a little over 1000 left over for the semester, so i brought myself a gaming laptop

 

[Robert Ewing]

Yeah, the only real reason for a gaming laptop is portability. Having the specs of a fairly high rate desktop that you can carry around in a bag is quite an achievement.

I do want one, but they're a tad out of my range.

 

[duckfi8]

I have a gaming laptop because I live in a small house and I do not have a room to myself that I can keep a desktop in.

 

[Creator002]

I'm currently in the transition from laptop to desktop. I originally got a laptop because I thought "Hey, PC gaming in a portable case!", but I jumped the gun. I thought it'd be great to be able to game with friends over LAN without having to lug a desktop everywhere. However, I shortly realised that the laptop is NOT suited for gaming. Overheating is probably the biggest issue. Even Minecraft makes my laptop want to die.
People probably just don't realise that laptops are suited as "computers", not a gaming console. They think "a computer is a computer".

EDIT - Mind you, I bought a laptop, not a GAMING laptop, if that makes any difference.