I use my laptop to watch workout videos, and I have a tendency to move around my house, so a laptop is pretty much a necessity.
Why gaming laptops?
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exactly this... i have a gaming laptop... would much prefer a desktop but its just not feasible right now to be lugging around and despite gaming laptops being heavy (about 9 lbs i think for mine)its much lighter than a gaming desktop at 40-50lbs. and much more portable. i can just put my laptop, power cord and mouse into my bookbag.
I currently have a laptop and a computer neither of which is especially good for gaming but both are mediocre all round, im debating whether to sell my laptop and get a gaming one and keep my computer for others stuff or buy a gaming computer and keep the laptop for other stuff. Any suggestions either way??
I got mine for several reasons
1. I already have an more or less equally powerfull gameing PC
2. I can use the specs in it, to have a portable PC capable of working 3d graphics programs.
3. I can bring it to work, and the nature of my job allows me to spend somewhere between 2-4 hours durring a 7 hour shift of my work time playing games/working with 3d.
4. I can easily bring it along to friends places, unlike my stationary computer, which is stuc at my appartment unless i have acces to a car.
5. While a complete luxury, and not an actual buying point, having acces to 2 computers capable of running games is nice, when having friends over.
1. I already have an more or less equally powerfull gameing PC
2. I can use the specs in it, to have a portable PC capable of working 3d graphics programs.
3. I can bring it to work, and the nature of my job allows me to spend somewhere between 2-4 hours durring a 7 hour shift of my work time playing games/working with 3d.
4. I can easily bring it along to friends places, unlike my stationary computer, which is stuc at my appartment unless i have acces to a car.
5. While a complete luxury, and not an actual buying point, having acces to 2 computers capable of running games is nice, when having friends over.
I use a gaming laptop because it is very small, very easy to carry and suits me fine. I don't care if I could buy a bit of a better desktop for the same price, I prefer to be able to carry my laptop around all the time.
Overheating is never a problem with my laptop as well, so that definitely isn't an issue.
Overheating is never a problem with my laptop as well, so that definitely isn't an issue.
I agree that a gaming laptop is generally a bad idea. From personal experience, I've had one, and it goes obsolete far quicker than a self-built PC. Plus, it is more susceptible to damage.
To answer the question, though -- why you'd want one -- from the perspective of someone in college who lives with a girlfriend that hogs the main computer all the time, it seems like a really great thing to have!
No more explanation needed, I think.
To answer the question, though -- why you'd want one -- from the perspective of someone in college who lives with a girlfriend that hogs the main computer all the time, it seems like a really great thing to have!
No more explanation needed, I think.
Keyword: Sophomore. I only budget about $1000 for the entire year. That includes meals and my meds. I also don't have grant moneyDarthScorpio11 said: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 laptopIronStorm9 said:
Really? My friends and I managed to stuff four desktops into a dorm room(sure monitors were sitting on laps, but we did it!). There were two desktops in most dorm room at my college.Kanlic said:
Ok, I can understand the people who have to go to 30 countries in a year, but I don't understand this. Why go fishing if you are going to just play your computer anyway? It almost seems to miss the point entirely unless you have a LAN going on your fishing boat.Saulkar said:At the same time I can max out a heavily modded Just Cause 2 if I am feeling gamee while waiting for those damn magical things called fish my grandfather promises me will bite the bait.
Yes I do. In everyone but one of my posts in this thread.Blazingdragoon04 said:
In the end, I think this is the thing I am having trouble wrapping my head around. I had many people quote me (I just got done going through 15!) and say "so I can play games on the here, here, here, and here". It makes me think "why is it necessary to play there (regardless of the device you have)"? Yes, there are the people who travel a lot, and I can understand that. Although the people who say "so I can play WoW/Crysis/Just Cause 2 at McDonalds, in lectures, or waiting for a bus" (may or may not be actual examples in this thread), really make it hard to understand where they are coming from.Kalezian said:
The laptop or the girlfriend?Zeekar said:
I work as a caregiver in someone else's house during the night, which means I just clean shit (sometimes literally cleaning fecal matter off of the bathroom walls). So I have a laptop... It's not quite a gaming one, but it can play some games pretty well (I have Fallout 3 and NV along with Dragon Age). I just like the portability, and the fact that I can easily take it to work with me. In fact, it is my major console of choice, even trumping the DSi, and PSP as a preference. When I get home, I don't really wanna get on a desktop, or be on an video game console. I just wanna get to bed. So yeah...
I have a gaming laptop, and my reason for having it is simple.
I do FIFO(Fly-in, Fly-out)-work in Western Australian mines. A side effect of having so many 'rough' men in one place is that all minesites have to be 'dry' to prevent idiots ruining everything.
So, I bring my laptop + mouse + power cord for each 2-week stint up north, which I couldn't do with a desktop. I can take it with me relatively easily, but when I get home I can hook it up to external monitor, keyboard and speakers and I have a mid- to high-end desktop machine.
It's simply the most reasonable thing to do.
I do FIFO(Fly-in, Fly-out)-work in Western Australian mines. A side effect of having so many 'rough' men in one place is that all minesites have to be 'dry' to prevent idiots ruining everything.
So, I bring my laptop + mouse + power cord for each 2-week stint up north, which I couldn't do with a desktop. I can take it with me relatively easily, but when I get home I can hook it up to external monitor, keyboard and speakers and I have a mid- to high-end desktop machine.
It's simply the most reasonable thing to do.
Hell I've built Micro ATX desktops that perform better than a decent ASUS I checked it against and carried all of those benefits (again except the train one). Wireless cards are cheap as chips nowadays.crudus said:
Well maybe your room was bigger, but I am finding it hard to stuff three people into our already small room. Anyways, another reason why I justify my laptop for gaming purposes is that I like to keep all my stuff in one place. Having to juggle my information between two computers would cause a headache for me. Besides, I've had some pretty sick League of Legends games based solely on the ability to gather a 5 person team in one room via laptopscrudus said:
I don't have a full on gaming laptop but it has a decent gfx card and is more than enough to play DA:O, fable 3, f1 2010, starcraft 2, assassins creed 2 smoothly on decent settings (max for DA;O but that's not too hard).
I bought it instead of upgrading my pc because I wanted a machine I could keep all my media on, do assignments on, play games on and surf the net on. I can do all of this without having to restricted myself to a single room in the house and I like that everything is on the one machine. I get that the post is about 'Gaming laptops' but id say the reason is the same, you want something you can do everything on, it doesn't have to be ultra portable to be way more versatile.
I bought it instead of upgrading my pc because I wanted a machine I could keep all my media on, do assignments on, play games on and surf the net on. I can do all of this without having to restricted myself to a single room in the house and I like that everything is on the one machine. I get that the post is about 'Gaming laptops' but id say the reason is the same, you want something you can do everything on, it doesn't have to be ultra portable to be way more versatile.
I use to do my gaming from laptops and did so through the course of three different machines. I loved how portable it was since my group jumped from house-to-house for various LAN parties - it also doubled as my school laptop for taking notes in classes. However, the cost doesn't justify the cost anymore and I've switched back to desktop gaming and I'm never going back. My desktop blows any gaming laptop out of the water and it was half the cost.
Nice one.crudus said:
Seriously, though. If you need to take your computing power WITH YOU anywhere, and your main computing power at home is shared, a gaming laptop makes sense. Generally, though, I agree with you that it's pretty pointless.
It's nice to be able to know that you have something that can run anything when your main computer is in use, especially if it has the dual purpose of being portable.