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Laptop vs Desktop?

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  • Laptops
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  • Desktops
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September 16, 2013 1:46:22 PM

I have narrowed my list down to 3 different types of PCs to play games on and do homework:

A. Buy a desktop that has great specs for a lower price.
Pros: Cheap, powerful, upgradable.
Cons: Heavy, can't use on the go.
B. Buy a laptop that is good for gaming.
Pros: Powerful for a laptop, could play games on the go.
Cons: Very expensive, fairly heavy, low battery.
C. Buy an ultrabook or a laptop with fairly good specs then hook it up to ViDock with a very powerful GPU.
Pros: Powerful, good-looking, good battery.
Cons: Could mainly only play light games without ViDock, expensive, would need monitor.

What do you think I should get and why? Thanks!

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a b D Laptop
September 16, 2013 1:54:29 PM

try not all three.
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a b D Laptop
September 16, 2013 1:56:15 PM

If you are playing games, I wouldn't recommend anything other than a desktop. You're going to be disappointed by the graphics on a laptop, and so you'll play you games with it on the viDock, so you might as well get a desktop now.
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September 16, 2013 2:16:52 PM

What's your budget?

If hard limit of $1000 - get a desktop. There are NO GOOD gaming laptops for less than $1k (if good is 50+fps at 1080P and better than medium settings)

Hard limit of $1500 - It's a tough choice. For portability, a laptop with a >=760M (or AMD equal) GPU would provide decent gaming ability that you can bring with you... then again it holds NOTHING on a desktop built for the same $ (except portability).

If the limit is over $2k - get both a midrange gaming desktop (~$1K) and entry level gaming laptop (750/755M or equal GPU). If you spec the desktop right you can easily drop in a second GPU in the future to help overcome any GPU bottlenecks.
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